Minutes Belgrav call 11th October 2023
News and announcements: link to slides
Archisman: new members: Deepali
Archisman:
- Yearly activity report is submitted
- VSC meeting next week. Topics to discuss:
- Election committee for the Commissioning coordinator
- Virgo representative in climate change committee
- Calendar of 2024 Virgo meetings
- Approval of mandates of the Upgrade and Commissioning coordinators
- Vote for the ranked list of candidates for Upgrade coordinator
- Virgo week in November: Get in touch with Francesco Panarale for talks.
- Sebastien: my new post-doc who starts in November, Vincent Juste, may be interested to present in the coming weeks.
- Giacomo:
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CBC
- Sébastien Clesse (ULB): subsolar analysis. High activity in this group. We’re finalising a paper on one subsolar mass candidate from O3. The signal is very positive.
- Jean-René: what’s the confidence level?
- Sebastien: more than 5 sigma. The prob. that it’s noise event assuming Gaussian noise ( 5% )
- Jean-René: retrained the pipeline for O4. We did not find any candidate.
- Gergely: Csezary’s paper on the H constant estimation has been accepted: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12037
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Bursts
- Maxime Fays (ULiège): M. Coughlin is moving to another position. Reviewing pipeline for mid-O4.
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Instrumentation - optics¶
- Ricardo Cabrita: in Nov., Matteo Tacca will visit for a few weeks Louvain la Neuve. Will help take some measurements. Seminar to be given.
- Daniela: working on the design for the SRC. Two possible configs. Made the model in Oscar. Plan to implement a new cavity. Need to change the configuration. Short/long cavity is easier/major work on the building. This is planned to take place before O5.
- Ricardo: which one are you working on?
- Daniela: short cavity
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