The LISA Pathfinder mission

Antonucci, F.; Armano, M.; Audley, H.; Auger, G.; Benedetti, M.; Binétruy, P.; Bogenstahl, J.; Bortoluzzi, D.; Bosetti, Paolo; Brandt, N.; Caleno, M.; Cañizares, P.; Cavalleri, A.; Cesa, M.; Chmeissani, M.; Conchillo, A.; Congedo, G.; Cristofolini, I.; Cruise, M.; Danzmann, K.; Marchi, Fabrizio De; Diaz‐Aguiló, Marc; Diepholz, I.; Dixon, G. J.; Dolesi, R.; Dunbar, N.; Fauste, Jorge; Ferraioli, L.; Ferrone, V.; Fichter, Walter; Fitzsimons, E.; Freschi, M.; Marín, A. F. García; Marirrodriga, C. García; Gerndt, R.; Gesa, L.; Gilbert, F.P.; Giardini, Domenico; Grimani, C.; Grynagier, A.; Guillaume, Bernard; Guzmán, F.; Harrison, I.; Heinzel, Gerhard; Hernández, Víctor; Hewitson, M.; Hollington, D.; Hough, J.; Hoyland, D.; Hueller, M.; Huesler, J.; Jennrich, O.; Jetzer, Philippe; Johlander, B.; Karnesis, Nikolaos; Killow, C. J.; Llamas, Xavier; Lloro, I.; Lobo, Alberto; Maarschalkerweerd, R.; Madden, S.; Mance, D.; Mateos, I.; McNamara, P. W.; Mendes, José F. G.; Mitchell, E.; Monsky, A.; Nicolini, Davide; Nicolodi, Daniele; Nofrarias, M.; Pedersen, Finn; Perreur-Lloyd, M.; Plagnol, E.; Prat, P.; Racca, G. D.; Ramos‐Castro, J.; Reiche, J.; Pérez, José Antonio; Robertson, D. I.; Rozemeijer, H.; Sanjuán, Josep; Schleicher, A.; Schulte, M.; Shaul, D.; Stagnaro, L.; Strandmoe, S.; Steier, Frank; Sumner, T. J.; Taylor, A.; Texier, D.; Trenkel, C.; Tu, Hai-Bo; Vitale, S.; Wanner, Gudrun; Ward, H.; Waschke, S.; Wass, Peter; Weber, William J.; Ziegler, T.; Zweifel, Peter

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“…Figure 9 shows the torsion mechanism proposed. The struts attaching the LCA to the spacecraft structure can be approximated to a 10 cm length part of carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP) with 2.9 cm titanium end fittings at the edges 7 . Assuming average temperature increments for the CFRP part and the titanium end fittings of 3.5 K and 1 K, respectively, and thermal expansion coefficients of , the projected free elongation on the Z axis represents a vertical displacement of 0.7 μm.…”

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Thermo-elastic induced phase noise in the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft

Gibert¹,

Nofrarias²,

Karnesis³

et al. 2015

Class. Quantum Grav.

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During the on-station thermal test campaign of the LISA Pathfinder, the diagnostics subsystem was tested in nearly space conditions for the first time after integration in the satellite. The results showed the compliance of the temperature measurement system, obtaining temperature noise around − − 10 K Hz 4 12 in the frequency band 1-30 mHz. In addition, controlled injection of heat signals to the suspension struts anchoring the LISA Technology Package (LTP) core assembly to the satellite structure allowed us to experimentally estimate, for the first time, the phase noise contribution through thermo-elastic distortion of the LTP interferometer, the satelliteʼs main instrument. Such contribution was found to be at − − 10 m Hz 12 1 2 , a factor of 30 below the measured noise at the lower end of the measurement bandwidth (1 mHz).

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“…Though the sensitivity of the instrument is limited at the lower side of the band by the cross-talk actuation on the test masses and at the upper side by the interferometer sensing noise [7], several environmental noise sources could induce disturbances in the system that would reduce the sensitivity of the system, if they were not antecedently accounted for.…”

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Thermo-elastic induced phase noise in the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft

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Karnesis³

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“…The LISA Pathfinder is an ESA mission that is the precursor to the eLISA mission, with the aim to demonstrate the measurement strategy and test the technology that will be used by eLISA [28]. The Pathfinder contains a small scale version of the eLISA arm.…”

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The transient OT J213806.6+261957 in Pegasus - Possible emitter of gravitational waves

Poggiani¹

2017

Proceedings of the Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects - III — PoS(Golden2015)

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“…These observations indicated that the effects of corotating interaction regions (CIRs), generated when high-speed solar wind streams, associated with stable, low-latitude extensions of polar coronal holes, overtake leading slow solar wind from the equatorial regions of the Sun, are at the origin of short-term GCR flux modulations (see also Richardson 2004). A high counting rate particle detector (PD; Cañizares et al 2011) hosted aboard the European Space Agency (ESA) LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission (Antonucci et al 2011(Antonucci et al , 2012Armano et al 2016), allowed for the monitoring of the integral proton and helium nucleus fluxes above 70 MeV n −1 (Araújo et al 2005;Mateos et al 2012) with statistical uncertainty at percent level on 1 hr binned data between 2016 February and 2017 July.…”

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Characteristics and Energy Dependence of Recurrent Galactic Cosmic-Ray Flux Depressions and of a Forbush Decrease with LISA Pathfinder

Armano

Audley

Baird

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Galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) energy spectra observed in the inner heliosphere are modulated by the solar activity, the solar polarity and structures of solar and interplanetary origin. A high counting rate particle detector (PD) aboard LISA Pathfinder, meant for subsystems diagnostics, was devoted to the measurement of GCR and solar energetic particle integral fluxes above 70 MeV n −1 up to 6500 counts s −1 . PD data were gathered with a sampling time of 15 s. Characteristics and energy dependence of GCR flux recurrent depressions and of a Forbush decrease dated 2016 August 2 are reported here. The capability of interplanetary missions, carrying PDs for instrument performance purposes, in monitoring the passage of interplanetary coronal mass ejections is also discussed.

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The LISA Pathfinder mission

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Cited by 85 publications

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Thermo-elastic induced phase noise in the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft

Thermo-elastic induced phase noise in the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft

The transient OT J213806.6+261957 in Pegasus - Possible emitter of gravitational waves

Characteristics and Energy Dependence of Recurrent Galactic Cosmic-Ray Flux Depressions and of a Forbush Decrease with LISA Pathfinder

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