Testing small scale gravitational wave detectors with dynamical mass distributions

摘要

The recent discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO created renewed interestin the investigation of alternative gravitational detector designs, such assmall scale resonant detectors. In this article, it is shown how proposed smallscale detectors can be tested by generating dynamical gravitational near fieldswith appropriate distributions of moving masses. This opens up the possibilityto evaluate detector proposals very early in the development phase and may helpto progress quickly in their development.