Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978acaau...5....5e&link_type=abstract
Acta Astronautica, vol. 5, Jan.-Feb. 1978, p. 5-7.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Doppler Effect, Gravitational Waves, Radiation Detectors, Spacecraft Tracking, Plane Waves, Very Low Frequencies
Scientific paper
This paper reports a calculation of the effect of gravitational radiation on the observed Doppler shift of a sinusoidal electromagnetic signal transmitted to, and coherently transponded from, distant spacecraft. It is found that the effect of plane gravitational waves on such observations is not intuitively immediate, and in fact depends sensitively on the spacecraft direction, which suggests the possibility of detecting such plane waves by simultaneous Doppler tracking of several spacecraft. The need for broad band gravitational wave observations, the required stabilities of time keeping standards, and astrophysical sources expected in the Very Low Frequency band are briefly discussed.
Estabrook Frank B.
Wahlquist Hugo D.
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