title: Design of a tuned mass damper for high quality factor suspension modes in Advanced LIGO.
abstract: We discuss the requirements, design, and performance of a tuned mass damper which we have developed to damp the highest frequency pendulum modes of the quadruple suspensions which support the test masses in the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The design has to meet the requirements on mass, size, and level of damping to avoid unduly compromising the suspension thermal noise performance and to allow retrofitting of the dampers to the suspensions with minimal changes to the existing suspensions. We have produced a design satisfying our requirements which can reduce the quality factor of these modes from ∼500 000 to less than 10 000, reducing the time taken for the modes to damp down from several hours to a few minutes or less.
authors.affiliation: LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.affiliation: LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fritschel
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.affiliation: LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
authors.forename: C I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Torrie
authors.affiliation: LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evans