Cryogenic cooling of a sapphire mirror-suspension for interferometric gravitational wave detectors
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physics Letters A
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0375-9601
DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(98)00205-9