Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Mar 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998stin...0055623f&link_type=abstract
Technical Report, JPL-Publ-97-16
Mathematics
Logic
Gravitational Waves, Mission Planning, Antenna Design, Spacecraft Design, Spacecraft Antennas, Laser Interferometry, Systems Engineering, Spacecraft Instruments, Background Radiation, Long Wave Radiation, Interferometers, Spacecraft Propulsion, Attitude Control, Spacecraft Control, Spacecraft Power Supplies
Scientific paper
This document presents the results of a design feasibility study for LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). The goal of LISA is to detect and study low-frequency astrophysical gravitational radiation from strongly relativistic regions. Astrophysical sources potentially visible to LISA include extra-galactic massive black hole binaries at cosmological distances, binary systems composed of a compact star and a massive black hole, galactic neutron star-black hole binaries, and background radiation from the Big Bang. The LISA mission will comprise three spacecraft located five million kilometers apart forming an equilateral triangle in an Earth-trailing orbit. Fluctuations in separation between shielded test masses located within each spacecraft will be determined by optical interferometry which determines the phase shift of laser light transmitted between the test masses.
Bender Peter L.
Folkner William M.
Stebbins Robin Tuck
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