Published June 21, 2012
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Journal article
The LISA Pathfinder mission
Creators
- 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, 38123 Povo, Trento (Italy)
- 2. European Space Astronomy Centre, European Space Agency, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28692 Madrid (Spain)
- 3. Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik und Universität Hannover, 30167 Hannover (Germany)
- 4. APC UMR7164, Université Paris Diderot, Paris (France)
- 5. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Materiali e Tecnologie Industriali, Università di Trento and INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, Mesiano, Trento (Italy)
- 6. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale, Università di Trento and INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, Mesiano, Trento (Italy)
- 7. Astrium GmbH, Claude-Dornier-Strasse, 88090 Immenstaad (Germany)
- 8. European Space Technology Centre, European Space Agency, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk (Netherlands)
- 9. ICE-CSIC/IEEC, Facultat de Ciències, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain)
- 10. IFAE, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain)
- 11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom)
Description
In this paper, we describe the current status of the LISA Pathfinder mission, a precursor mission aimed at demonstrating key technologies for future space-based gravitational wave detectors, like LISA. Since much of the flight hardware has already been constructed and tested, we will show that performance measurements and analysis of these flight components lead to an expected performance of the LISA Pathfinder which is a significant improvement over the mission requirements, and which actually reaches the LISA requirements over the entire LISA Pathfinder measurement band. (paper)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/29/12/124014Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Journal Volume
- 29
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- [10 p.]
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- CODEN
- CQGRDG
Conference
- Title
- 9. Edoardo Amaldi meeting; NRDA 2011: 2011 numerical relativity and data analysis meeting
- Acronym
- AMALDI 9
- Dates
- 10-15 Jul 2011
- Place
- Cardiff, Wales (United Kingdom)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 43107943
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; PERFORMANCE; PRECURSOR; RADIATION DETECTION; SPACE
- Descriptors DEC
- DETECTION; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS