NIOBE

Niobe was a ground-based, cryogenic resonant bar gravitational-wave detector. The detector used a microwave parametric transducer readout to improve noise performance and detector bandwidth.^[1] The detector was run by David Blair at University of Western Australia in Perth. The detector ran in joint science runs from 1993-1998 with the gravitational-wave detectors Auriga, Allegro, Explorer and Nautillus.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Aguiar, Odylio Denys (December 2010). "Past, present and future of the Resonant-Mass gravitational wave detectors". Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 11 (1): 1–42. arXiv:1009.1138. doi:10.1088/1674-4527/11/1/001. ISSN 1674-4527. S2CID 250693208.