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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is due to launch in the mid-2030s. A key challenge for LISA data analysis is efficient Bayesian inference with parametrised gravitational-wave models, particularly for early inspirals of low-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Jethro Linley

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band, detecting signals from a vast number of astrophysical sources embedded in instrumental noise. Extracting individual signals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Niklas Houba

LISA is a proposed space-based laser interferometer detecting gravitational waves by measuring distances between free-floating test masses housed in three satellites in a triangular constellation with laser links in-between. Each satellite…

Time delay estimation has long been an active area of research. In this work, we show that compressive sensing with interpolation may be used to achieve good estimation precision while lowering the sampling frequency. We propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-12 Karsten Fyhn , Marco F. Duarte , Søren Holdt Jensen

We have demonstrated displacement- and frequency-noise free laser interferometry (DFI) by partially implementing a recently proposed optical configuration using bi-directional Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI). This partial implementation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shuichi Sato , Seiji Kawamura , Keiko Kokeyama , Robert L. Ward , Yanbei Chen , Archana Pai , Kentaro Somiya

Time-delayed differential equations (TDDEs) are widely used to model complex dynamic systems where future states depend on past states with a delay. However, inferring the underlying TDDEs from observed data remains a challenging problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-07 Debangshu Chowdhury , Souvik Chakraborty

The scientific objectives of the Lisa Technology Package (LTP) experiment, on board of the LISA Pathfinder mission, demand for an accurate calibration and validation of the data analysis tools in advance of the mission launch. The levels of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Luigi Ferraioli , Gerhard Heinzel , Martin Hewitson , Mauro Hueller , Anneke Monsky , Miquel Nofrarias , Stefano Vitale

Over the past few years questions have been raised concerning the use of laser communications links between sciencecraft to transmit phase information crucial to the reduction of laser frequency noise in the LISA science measurement. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 Scott E Pollack , Robin Tuck Stebbins

This document briefly describes the noise models and shapes used for the synthesis of the Drag-Free and Attitude Control System in the LISA space mission. LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is one of the next large-class missions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Michele Pagone , Carlo Novara

The arm length and the isolation in space enable LISA to probe for signals unattainable on ground, opening a window to the sub-Hz gravitational-wave universe. The coupling of unavoidable angular spacecraft jitter into the longitudinal…

Delay tomography has so far burdened source and receiver measurement nodes in a network with two requirements such as path establishment and clock synchronization between them. In this letter, we focus on the clock synchronization problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Kensuke Nakanishi , Shinsuke Hara , Takahiro Matsuda , Kenichi Takizawa , Fumie Ono , Ryu Miura

The basic constituent of interferometric gravitational wave detectors -- the test mass to test mass interferometric link -- behaves as a differential dynamometer measuring effective differential forces, comprising an integrated measure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-24 Giuseppe Congedo

Here we present a Bayesian method of including discrete measurements of dispersion measure due to the interstellar medium in the direction of a pulsar as prior information in the analysis of that pulsar. We use a simple simulation to show…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson

In this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

For given laser output power, object under investigation and photodiode noise level, we have theoretically compared the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a heterodyne scanning imager based on a Michelson interferometer and of an autodyne setup…

Using fiber network as a huge sensing system will enrich monitoring methods of public infrastructures and geological disasters. With traditional cross-correlation method, laser interferometer has been used to detect and localize the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-26 Guan Wang , Zhongwang Pang , Bohan Zhang , Fangmin Wang , Yufeng Chen , Hongfei Dai , Bo Wang , Lijun Wang

Using a Nd:YVO4 microchip laser with a relaxation frequency in the megahertz range, we have experimentally compared a heterodyne interferometer based on a Michelson configuration with an autodyne interferometer based on the laser optical…

The volume of radio-astronomical data is a considerable burden in the processing and storing of radio observations with high time and frequency resolutions and large bandwidths. Lossy compression of interferometric radio-astronomical data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 A. R. Offringa

The modeling of intrinsic noise in pulsar timing residual data is of crucial importance for Gravitational Wave (GW) detection and pulsar timing (astro)physics in general. The noise budget in pulsars is a collection of several well studied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Justin Ellis , Neil Cornish

This paper is the third part of a trilogy dealing with the principles, performance and limitations of what I named "Telescope-Interferometers" (TIs). The basic idea consists in transforming one telescope into a Wavefront Error (WFE) sensing…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-17 Francois Henault