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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 16: Poster: Quantum information, micromechanical oscillators, matter wave optics, precision measurements and metrology

Q 16.87: Poster

Monday, March 17, 2014, 16:30–18:30, Spree-Palais

Gravitational Wave Polarization and the Antenna Pattern — •Tobin Fricke — Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

The most commonly used depictions of the antenna pattern of a laser-interferometric gravitational wave detector can lead to some misconceptions about the sensitivity to the plus and cross polarizations, and, indeed, the nature of the decomposition into two polarizations in the first place. I will discuss gravitational wave polarization with respect to the detector's antenna pattern, suggesting more pedagogical approaches to be used in the future.