"Thermal noise of suspensions in gravitational wave detectors"

We present a method to calculate thermal noise that allows the prediction of
the suspension thermal noise in all its 6 degrees of freedom, from the energy
dissipation due to the elasticity of the suspension wires.  We show how this
approach encompasses and explains previous ways to approximate the thermal
noise limit in gravitational waver detectors. We show how this approach can be
extended to more complicated suspensions to be used in future LIGO detectors.