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Apr 1997
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American Physical Society, APS/AAPT Joint Meeting, April 18-21, 1997, abstract #J4.02
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A world-wide effort is now underway to build gravitational wave detectors based on highly-sensitive laser interferometers. These include projects in the United States, France and Italy, Germany and Britain, Japan, Australia, and other countries. When the data from detectors at different sites is properly combined, it will permit highly-sensitive searches for a stochastic background of relic gravitational radiation. Such radiation might arise from processes occurring in the very early universe, and could provide a glimpse of its properties about 10-22 seconds after the big bang. This talk (intended for the non-specialist) discusses the methods by which data from different detectors can be used to make measurements of, or place limits on, a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. The current observational limits on a stochastic background, and the potential sensitivity that will be achieved by optimal use of the LIGO detectors currently under construction, are described. We describe several potential sources of a stochastic background of gravitational radiation, and speculate about the likelyhood that LIGO will detect such a background.
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