Published June 1, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Parameter estimation in LISA Pathfinder operational exercises

  • 1. Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC-IEEC), Facultat de Ciències, 08193 Bellaterra (Spain)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento (Italy)
  • 3. European Space Astronomy Centre, European Space Agency, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28692 Madrid (Spain)
  • 4. Universitàt Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), EPSC, Esteve Terrades 5, 08860 Castelldefels (Spain)
  • 5. Institut für Flugmechanik und Flugregelung (IFR), 70569 Stuttgart (Germany)
  • 6. Albert-Einstein-Institut (AEI), Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik und Universität Hannover, 30167 Hannover (Germany)

Description

The LISA Pathfinder data analysis team has been developing in the last years the infrastructure and methods required to run the mission during flight operations. These are gathered in the LTPDA toolbox, an object oriented MATLAB toolbox that allows all the data analysis functionalities for the mission, while storing the history of all operations performed to the data, thus easing traceability and reproducibility of the analysis. The parameter estimation methods in the toolbox have been applied recently to data sets generated with the OSE (Off-line Simulations Environment), a detailed LISA Pathfinder non-linear simulator that will serve as a reference simulator during mission operations. These simulations, so called operational exercises, are the last verification step before translating these experiments into tele-command sequences for the spacecraft, producing therefore very relevant datasets to test our data analysis methods. In this contribution we report the results obtained with three different parameter estimation methods during one of these operational exercises.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/363/1/012053

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
363
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[10 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
9. Edoardo Amaldi conference on gravitational waves; NRDA 2011: 2011 numerical relativity - data analysis meeting
Acronym
Amaldi 9
Dates
10-15 Jul 2011
Place
Cardiff (United Kingdom)

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43100251
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATASETS; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; INTERFEROMETERS; LASERS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; RADIATION DETECTION; SIMULATORS
Descriptors DEC
ANALOG SYSTEMS; DETECTION; DOCUMENT TYPES; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; SIMULATION