Frequency dependence of thermal noise in gram-scale cantilever flexures
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Thanh T-H. Nguyen, Conor M. Mow-Lowry, Bram J. J. Slagmolen, John Miller, Adam J. Mullavey, Stefan Goßler, Paul A. Altin, Daniel A. Shaddock, and David E. McClelland Centre for Gravitational Physics, The Australian National University, Science Rd 38a, 2601 Canberra, ACT, Australia School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom LIGO Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA LIGO Laboratory, Ligo Rd, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany (Received 11 October 2015; published 15 December 2015)
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