NIOBE

{{Short description|Gravitational-wave detector}}

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File:Gravitational-wave detector NIOBE on display at the Gravity Discovery Centre, September 2021 01.jpg]]

Niobe was a ground-based, cryogenic resonant bar gravitational-wave detector. The detector used a microwave parametric transducer readout to improve noise performance and detector bandwidth.{{cite journal |last1=Aguiar |first1=Odylio Denys |title=Past, present and future of the Resonant-Mass gravitational wave detectors |journal=Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics |date=December 2010 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=1–42 |doi=10.1088/1674-4527/11/1/001 |language=en |issn=1674-4527|arxiv=1009.1138 |s2cid=250693208 }} The detector was run by David Blair at University of Western Australia in Perth. The detector ran in joint science runs from 1993-1998 with the gravitational-wave detectors Auriga, Allegro, Explorer and Nautillus.