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Localizing the sky position of the gravitational wave source is a key scientific goal for gravitational wave observations. Employing the Fisher information matrix approximation, we compute the angular resolutions of LISA and TianQin, two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Hang Liu , Bin Wang , Chunyu Zhang

TianQin is a proposed geocentric space-based gravitational wave observatory mission, which requires time-delay interferometry (TDI) to cancel laser frequency noise. With high demands for precision, solar-wind plasma environment at $\sim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-26 Yi-De Jing , Lu Zheng , Shutao Yang , Xuefeng Zhang , Lingfeng Lu , Binbin Tang , Wei Su

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

Two way ranging data for spacecraft tracking of China's first Martian mission Tianwen-I is analysed. Shortly before the spacecraft entered the Mars parking orbit, the two way coherent microwave link between the spacecraft and the Earth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-12 Xiaoming Bi , Zhongkai Guo , Xiaobo Zou , Yong Huang , Peijia Li , Jianfeng Cao , Lue Chen , Wenlin Tang , Yun Kau Lau

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

In this paper, we carry out a systematic study of the prospect of testing general relativity with the inspiral signals of black hole binaries that could be detected with TianQin. The study is based on the parameterized post-Einsteinian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Changfu Shi , Mujie Ji , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

TianQin is a dedicated geocentric mission for space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection. Among its core technologies, the drag-free and pointing control subsystem (DFPCS) - consisting of suspension, drag-free and pointing controls -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Yuzhou Fang , Xuefeng Zhang , Hongyin Li

TianQin (TQ) project plans to deploy three satellites in space around the Earth to measure the displacement change of test masses caused by gravitational waves via laser interferometry. The requirement of the acceleration noise of the test…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Wei Su , Ze-Bing Zhou , Yan Wang , Chen Zhou , P. F. Chen , Wei Hong , J. H. Peng , Yun Yang , Y. W. Ni

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…

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

The direct detection of gravitational waves offers a powerful tool to explore the nature of gravity and the structure of space-time. This paper focuses on the capabilities of space-based gravitational wave detectors in testing space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-24 Zeyu Huang , Changfu Shi , Xiangyu Lyu , Jianwei Mei

In the coming decade, the LIGO/VIRGO/GEO network of ground-based kilometer-scale laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors will open up a new astronomical window on the Universe: gravitational waves in the frequency band 10 to 10^4…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eanna E Flanagan

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

The gravitational wave memory effect is a prediction of general relativity. The presence of memory effect in gravitational wave signals not only provides the chance to test an important aspect of general relativity, but also represents a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-17 Shuo Sun , Changfu Shi , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

The space mission LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), scheduled for launch in 2035, aims to detect gravitational wave (GW) signals in the milli-Hz band. In the context of ESA Voyage 2050 Call for new mission concepts, other frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Alice Perego , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana , Silvia Toonen , Valeriya Korol

We describe a new space gravitational wave observatory design called LAGRANGE that maintains all important LISA science at about half the cost and with reduced technical risk. It consists of three drag-free spacecraft in the most stable…

The first direct detection of gravitational waves emitted from a pair of merging black holes in 2015 has been heralded as one of most significant scientific breakthroughs in physics and astronomy of the 21st century. Motivated by the…

We study the capability of the space-based gravitational wave observatory TianQin to test the no-hair theorem of General Relativity, using the ringdown signal from the coalescence of massive black hole binaries. We parameterize the ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Changfu Shi , Jiahui Bao , Haitian Wang , Jian-dong Zhang , Yiming Hu , Alberto Sesana , Enrico Barausse , Jianwei Mei , Jun Luo

We review potential low-frequency gravitational-wave sources, which are expected to be detected by Taiji, a Chinese space-based gravitational-wave detector, estimate the detection rates of these gravitational-wave sources and present the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-05 Wen-Hong Ruan , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

The determination of the spatial geometry of the universe plays an important role in modern cosmology. Any deviation from the cosmic curvature $\Omega_K=0$ would have a profound impact on the primordial inflation paradigm and fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-24 Yu Pan , Jingwang Diao , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jin Li , Shuo Cao , Qing-Quan Jiang