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TianQin is a proposed space-based gravitational-wave detector mission to be deployed and operated in high Earth orbits. As a sequel to [Zhang et al. Phys. Rev. D 103, 062001 (2021)], we investigate a type of ``orbital noise'' in TianQin's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Kun Liu , Chengjian Luo , Xuefeng Zhang

Space-based gravitational wave detection is based on the astrodynamical equations derived from gravitational theory to detect changes in distance between spacecraft/celestial bodies and/or their state changes caused by gravitational waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Wei-Tou Ni

TianQin is a proposed space-based gravitational wave observatory. It is designed to detect the gravitational wave signals in the frequency range of 0.1 mHz -- 1 Hz. At a geocentric distance of $10^5$ km, the plasma in the earth…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Wei Su , Yan Wang , Ze-Bing Zhou , Yan-Zheng Bai , Yang Guo , Chen Zhou , Tom Lee , Ming Wang , Ming-Yue Zhou , Tong Shi , Hang Yin , Bu-Tian Zhang

Gravitational wave detection in space promises to open a new window in astronomy to study the strong field dynamics of gravitational physics in astrophysics and cosmology. The present article is an extract of a report on a feasibility study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Xuefei Gong , Shengnian Xu , Shanquan Gui , Shuanglin Huang , Yun-Kau Lau

TianQin is a space-based gravitational-wave observatory scheduled to be launched in the 2030s. In this work, we make a preliminary forecast for the cosmological parameter estimation with the gravitational-wave standard siren observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ling-Feng Wang , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Space-based gravitational wave detectors such as TianQin, LISA, and TaiJi have the potential to outperform themselves through joint observation. To achieve this, it is desirable to practice joint data analysis in advance on simulated data…

The measurement of Earth's free oscillations plays an important role in studying the Earth's large-scale structure. Space technology development presents a potential method to observe these normal modes by measuring inter-satellite…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Yuxin Yang , Kun Liu , Xuefeng Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonathan R Gair , Martin Hewitson , Antoine Petiteau , Guido Mueller

TianQin is a proposed space-borne gravitational wave (GW) observatory composed of three identical satellites orbiting around the geocenter with a radius of $10^5$ km. It aims at detecting GWs in the frequency range of 0.1 mHz -- 1 Hz. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Wei Su , Yan Wang , Chen Zhou , Lingfeng Lu , Ze-Bing Zhou , T. Li , Tong Shi , Xin-Chun Hu , Ming-Yue Zhou , Ming Wang , Hsien-Chi Yeh , Han Wang , P. F. Chen

We propose a new method to detect gravitational waves, based on spatial coherence interferometry with stellar light, as opposed to the conventional temporal coherence interferometry with laser sources. The proposed method detects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 I. H. Park , K. -Y. Choi , J. Hwang , S. Jung , D. H. Kim , M. H. Kim , C. -H. Lee , K. H. Lee , S. H. Oh , M. -G. Park , S. C. Park , A. Pozanenko , C. D. Rho , N. Vedenkin , E. Won

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is one of the main detection targets for future millihertz space-borne gravitational-wave observatories such as the \ac{LISA}, TianQin, and Taiji. For a single LISA-like detector, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Jun Cheng , En-Kun Li , Jianwei Mei

The TianQin space Gravitational Waves (GW) observatory will contain 3 geocentric and circularly orbiting spacecraft with an orbital radius of 10^5 km, to detect the GW in the milli-hertz frequency band. Each spacecraft pair will establish a…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Ling-Feng Lu , Wei Su , Xuefeng Zhang , Zhao-Guo He , Hui-Zong Duan , Yuan-Ze Jiang , Hsien-Chi Yeh

This talk adds more detail to the proposed TianQin mission \cite{TQ}. The response of TianQin to a binary source is an important problem for the experiment. Here we present the detail of the response function of an equal-arm Michelson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-16 Jianwei Mei , Chenggang Shao , Yan Wang

The detection of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is among the leading scientific goals of the space-borne gravitational wave observatory, which would have significant impact on astrophysics and fundamental physics. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Jun Cheng , En-Kun Li , Yi-Ming Hu , Zheng-Cheng Liang , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

The current design of space-based gravitational wave detectors utilizes heterodyne laser interferometry in inter-satellite science measurements. Frequency variations of the heterodyne beatnotes are predominantly caused by the Doppler effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Lu Zheng , Shutao Yang , Xuefeng Zhang

The space-based laser interferometers, LISA, Taiji and TianQin, are targeting to observe milliHz gravitational waves (GWs) in the 2030s. The joint observations from multiple space-based detectors yield significant advantages. In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Bin Hu , Chang Liu , Youjun Lu , Wei-Tou Ni , Wen-Hong Ruan , Naoki Seto , Gang Wang , Yue-Liang Wu

With the recent strong developments of TianQin and Taiji, we now have an increasing chance to make a correlation analysis in the mHz band by operating them together with LISA. Assuming two LISA-like triangular detectors at general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Naoki Seto

In this work, we study the prospect of detecting the stochastic gravitational-wave background with the TianQin Observatory. We consider sources of both astrophysical-origin and cosmological-origin, including stellar-mass binary black holes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Yi-Ming Hu , Yun Jiang , Jun Cheng , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

TianQin proposes to detect gravitational wave signals by using laser interferometry. However, laser propagation effect introduces a potential noise factor for TianQin. In this work, we used MHD simulations to obtain the space magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Liu YaNan , Su Wei , Zhang XueFeng , Zhang JiXiang , Zhou ShenWei

In future geocentric space-based gravitational-wave observatory missions, eclipses due to passing through the Moon's and Earth's shadows can negatively impact the sciencecraft's thermal stability and steady power supply. The occurrence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Bobing Ye , Xuefeng Zhang , Yanwei Ding , Yunhe Meng