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Alternative LISA-TAIJI networks

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-07-14 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

The space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors, LISA and TAIJI, are planned to be launched in the 2030s. The dual detectors with comparable sensitivities will form a network observing GW with significant advantages. In this work, we investigate the three possible LISA-TAIJI networks for the different location and orientation compositions of LISA orbit (+60+60^\circ inclination and trailing the Earth by 2020^\circ) and alternative TAIJI orbit configurations including TAIJIp (+60+60^\circ inclination and leading the Earth by 2020^\circ), TAIJIc (+60+60^\circ inclination and co-located with LISA), TAIJIm (60-60^\circ inclination and leading the Earth by 2020^\circ). In the three LISA-TAIJI configurations, the LISA-TAIJIm network shows the best performance on the sky localization and polarization determination for the massive binary system due to their better complementary antenna pattern, and LISA-TAIJIc could achieve the best cross-correlation and observe the stochastic GW background with an optimal sensitivity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.00746,
  title  = {Alternative LISA-TAIJI networks},
  author = {Gang Wang and Wei-Tou Ni and Wen-Biao Han and Peng Xu and Ziren Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.00746},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures

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