KAGRA is a unique gravitational wave telescope with its location underground and use of cryogenic mirrors. Safety management plays an important role for secure development and operation of such a unique and large facility. Based on relevant law in Japan, Labor Standard Act and Industrial Safety and Health Law, various countermeasures are mandated to avoid foreseeable accidents and diseases. In addition to the usual safety management of hazardous materials, such as cranes, organic solvents, lasers, there are specific safety issues in the tunnel. Prevention of collapse, flood, and fire accidents are the most critical issues for the underground facility. Ventilation is also important for prevention of air pollution by carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, organic solvents and radon. Oxygen deficiency should also be prevented.
The laser interferometric gravitational wave detection by means of a long-baseline laser interferometer has been promoted in Japan. To obtain higher sensitivity for detect gravitational wave, high-quality mirrors and the high-power laser with high frequency-stability are important. In this paper our improvement of high-quality mirrors through development of high-precision measurement and the frequency stabilization of the injection-locked laser was reported.
The Mitaka optical-IR array (MIRA) project is a series of optical and IR interferometers by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. We call the first step the MIRA-I project, and the following projects are the MIRA-1.2, MIRA- II, MIRA-SG, and the MIRA-III. The MIRA-I is a prototype for demonstration of stellar interferometry, and the other projects, which are described by Sato et al. and Nishikawa et al., are practical instruments for science. The main purpose of the MIRA-I is to get stellar fringes and skill of fringe tracking. The MIRA-I instrument is located at the National Astronomical Observatory in Mitaka, Tokyo.It consists of two element telescope with 25 cm aperture placed on four meters N-S baseline. The fringe detector operates at visible or around 800 nm with high-speed sampling. In laboratory, we obtained artificial white light fringes in December 1995, and we moved the instruments to the telescope dome at January 1996. At present, we have been trying to get stellar fringes. This paper describe the current status and the progress of the MIRA-I.
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