The Cassini gravitational wave experiment

Salvatore F. Abbate; John W. Armstrong; Sami W. Asmar; Elias Barbinis; Bruno Bertotti; Don U. Fleischman; Mark S. Gatti; Gene L. Goltz; R. G. Herrera; L. Iess; Kyong J. Lee; Trina L. Ray; Massimo Tinto; P. Tortora; Hugo D. Wahlquist

doi:10.1117/12.458566

26 February 2003 The Cassini gravitational wave experiment

Salvatore F. Abbate, John W. Armstrong, Sami W. Asmar, Elias Barbinis, Bruno Bertotti, Don U. Fleischman, Mark S. Gatti, Gene L. Goltz, R. G. Herrera, L. Iess, Kyong J. Lee, Trina L. Ray, Massimo Tinto, P. Tortora, Hugo D. Wahlquist

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Proceedings Volume 4856, Gravitational-Wave Detection; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458566
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

Doppler tracking experiments using the earth and a distant spacecraft as separated test masses have been used for gravitational wave (GW) searches in the low-frequency band(~0.0001-0.1 Hz). The precision microwave tracking link continuously measures the relative dimensionless velocity, Δv/c, between the earth and the spacecraft. A GW incident of the systems produces a characteristic signature in the data, different from the signatures of the principal noises. For 40 days centered about its solar opposition in December 2001, the Cassini spacecraft was tracked in a search for low-frequncy GWs. Here we describe the GW experiment, including transfer functions of the signals and noises to the Doppler observable, and present noise statistics and compare them with the pre-experiment noise budget.

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Salvatore F. Abbate, John W. Armstrong, Sami W. Asmar, Elias Barbinis, Bruno Bertotti, Don U. Fleischman, Mark S. Gatti, Gene L. Goltz, R. G. Herrera, L. Iess, Kyong J. Lee, Trina L. Ray, Massimo Tinto, P. Tortora, and Hugo D. Wahlquist "The Cassini gravitational wave experiment", Proc. SPIE 4856, Gravitational-Wave Detection, (26 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458566

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