Non-equilibrium "thermal noise" of low loss oscillators

Abstract

The RareNoise project aims at studying how ground-based gravitational wave detector are affected by the thermodynamic non-equilibrium states which are present in their experimental apparatus. We present the RareNoise experimental work which focuses on the study of the \u27thermal noise\u27 of low loss oscillators subject to steady-state thermal gradients. We also present the first results of the experimental campaign on steady-state non-equilibrium oscillators around room temperature