Gravitational Waves

WEEK 15: DOPPLER TRACKING OF SPACECRAFT IN LF BAND; PULSAR TIMING IN VLF BAND; LIGO DATA ANALYSIS

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Lecture 27, tape 1 (John Armstrong: Doppler tracking of spacecraft for GW detection in the low frequency band)

Lecture 27, tape 2 (Kip Thorne: Pulsar timing for GW detection in the very low frequency band)

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Lecture 28 (Albert Lazzarini: LIGO data analysis)

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Slides

John Armstrong's lecture [pdf] [ ps]

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Albert Lazzarini's talk [pdf]

Readings

Andrea Lomen's thesis (pulsar timing)
J.W. Armstrong, B.Bertotti, F.B. Estabrook, L.Iess and H.D. Wahlquist - The Galileo/Mars Observer/Ulysses coincidence experiment (from the procedings of the 2nd AMALDI conference on Gravitational Waves, Cern Switzerland, 1997)
V. Kaspi, J.H. Taylor and M.F. Rybka, High-precision timing of millisecond pulsars. 3. long-term monitoring of PSRs B1885_09 and B1937+21, Astrophysical Journal 428, 713-728 (1994)