LISA had a booth at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Seattle, handing out some very popular laser pointers - far superior to the competing Beyond Einstein mission concept team swag...
In an idle moment, we built a GigaHertz gravitational radiation detector (ok, we didn't mode lock or heterodyne, but the aligment was damn good).
Fortunately Scott from MIT was there to record it for posterity
The noise at the facility was mostly in the milliHertz through kiloHertz bands and would not affect GigaHertz performance, we seriously expect new physics at these frequencies.
It is not know if the Yekta Gravitational Radiation Generator at TAPIR in Pasadena was running at the time, a blind search of the data would be performed if we had actually recorded it, and if it had been in the right frequency band.
Why, yes, it has been a long meeting...
Why, yes, it has been a long meeting...
I think that says it all ... conference fatigue definitely setting in today!!