Verification of time-delay interferometry techniques using the University of Florida LISA interferometry simulator

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Apr 2010

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Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 27, Issue 8, pp. 084012 (2010).

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Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a cooperative NASA/ESA mission proposed to directly measure gravitational waves (GW) in the frequency range from 30 \,\mu \rm {Hz} to 1\,\rm {Hz} with an optimal strain sensitivity of 10^{-21}/\sqrt{Hz} at 3\,\rm {mHz}. LISA will utilize a modified Michelson interferometer to measure length changes of 40\,\rm {pm}/\sqrt{Hz} between drag-free proof masses located on three separate spacecraft (SC) separated by a distance of 5\,\rm {Gm}. The University of Florida has developed a hardware-in-the-loop simulator of the LISA constellation to verify the laser noise cancellation technique known as time-delay interferometry (TDI). We replicate the frequency stabilization of the laser on the local SC and the phase-locking of the lasers on the far SC. The laser photodetector beatnotes are electronically delayed, Doppler shifted and applied with a mock GW signal to simulate the laser link between the SC. The beatnotes are also measured with a LISA-like phasemeter and the data are used to extract the laser phase and residual phase-lock loop noise in post-processing through TDI. This uncovers the GW modulation signal buried under the laser noise. The results are then compared to the requirements defined by the LISA science collaboration.

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