Gravitational Waves

WEEK 18: LISA'S DISTURBANCE REDUCTION SYSTEM; TIME-DELAY INTERFEROMETRY

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Lecture 33 (Bonny L. Shumaker (JPL):  LISA's Disturbance Reduction System)

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Lecture 34 (John Armstrong  (JPL):  Time-Delay Interferometry)

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• Bonny's lecture [pdf]
• John Armstrong's lecture [pdf]

• Bonny L. Schumaker, Overview of Disturbance Reduction requirements for LISA [pdf]
• AET1 --> Massimo Tinto and J.W. Armstrong - Cancelation of laser noise in an unequal arm interferometer detector of gravitational radiation
• AET2 Armstrong, Estabrook and Tinto - Time delay interferometry for space based gravitational waves searches
• AET3 Estabrook,  Tinto and Armstrong  Time delay analysis of LISA gravitational waves data - Elimination of space craft motion effects
• AET4 Tinto, Armstrong and Estabrook - Discrimination Gravitational Waves background from Instrumental noise in the LISA detector.
• AET5Tinto, Estabrook and Armstrong - Time delay interferometry for LISA
• Larson et Al     Shane L. Larson and William A. Hiscock - Sessitivity curves for space-borne gravitational waves interferometers

• assignment 18

• solutions to the exercises
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