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The LTP Experiment on the LISA Pathfinder Mission

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1
Authors: S. Vitale
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Abstract

We report on the development of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) experiment that will fly on board the LISA Pathfinder mission of the European Space Agency in 2008. We first summarize the science rationale of the experiment aimed at showing the operational feasibility of the so called Transverse-Traceless coordinate frame within the accuracy needed for LISA. We then show briefly the basic features of the instrument and we finally discuss its projected sensitivity and the extrapolation of its results to LISA.

Keywords

lisa technology package lisa pathfinder transverse-traceless coordinates sensitivity extrapolation space interferometry

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0504062,
  title  = {The LTP Experiment on the LISA Pathfinder Mission},
  author = {S. Vitale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0504062},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity, Proceedings of the 5th LISA Symposium, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 12-15 July 2004

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