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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory. It will measure gravitational wave signals in the frequency regime from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. The success of these measurements will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Marie-Sophie Hartig , Sarah Paczkowski , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel , Gudrun Wanner

Tilt-to-length (TTL) noise induced by angular jitter of spacecraft and test masses can affect the sensitivity of space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA, Taiji, and TianQin. Such angular jitter can be measured using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Xue Wang , Gang Wang

The coupling of the angular jitter of the spacecraft and their sub-assemblies with the optical bench and the telescope into the interferometric length readout will be a major noise source in the LISA mission. We refer to this noise as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Marie-Sophie Hartig , Joshua Marmor , Daniel George , Sarah Paczkowski , Jose Sanjuan

TianQin is a proposed space-based mission for gravitational wave detection, employing a constellation of three drag-free satellites in high Earth orbits to form a laser interferometric observatory. A critical technical challenge is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yuzhou Fang , Dexuan Zhang , Dezhi Wang , Xuefeng Zhang , Huizong Duan , Hongyin Li , Junxiang Lian , Guoying Zhao

Tilts of certain elements within a laser interferometer can undesirably couple into measurements as a form of noise, known as tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling. This TTL coupling is anticipated to be one of the primary noise sources in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Henry Wegener , Sarah Paczkowski , Marie-Sophie Hartig , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel , Gudrun Wanner

Tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling is expected to be one of the major noise sources in the interferometric phase readouts in TianQin mission. Arising from the angular motion of spacecraft (SC) and the onboard movable optical subassemblies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Zhizhao Wang , Shuju Yang , Kaihang Wu , Xiaojie Wang , Huizong Duan , Yurong Liang , Xuefeng Zhang , Hsien-Chi Yeh

Tilt-to-length (TTL) noise from angular jitter in LISA is projected to be the dominant noise source in the milli-Hertz band unless corrected in post-processing. The correction is only possible after removing the overwhelming laser phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Daniel George , Jose Sanjuan , Paul Fulda , Guido Mueller

Tilt-to-length (TTL) noise, caused by angular jitter and misalignment, is a major noise source in the inter-satellite interferometer for gravitational wave detection. However, the required level of axis alignment of the optical components…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-11 Peng Qiu , Xiang Lin , Yurong Liang , Hao Yan , Haixing Miao , Zebing Zhou

For the LISA mission, Tilt-To-Length (TTL) coupling is expected to be one of the dominant instrumental noise contributions after laser frequency noise is suppressed based, on assumptions on the size of the coupling and angular jitter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , Sarah Paczkowski , Ricardo Waibel

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…

Gravitational waves (GWs) from tens of millions of compact binaries in our Milky Way enter the milli-Hertz band of space-based detection. The majority of them cannot be resolved individually, resulting in a foreground confusion noise for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Chang Liu , Wen-Hong Ruan , Zong-Kuan Guo

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is essential for space-based gravitational wave (GW) missions to effectively suppress laser frequency noise and achieve targeting sensitivity. The principle of the TDI is to synthesize multiple laser link…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Gang Wang

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission features a three-spacecraft long-arm constellation intended to detect gravitational wave sources in the low-frequency band up to 1 Hz via laser interferometry. The paper presents an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-24 Niklas Houba , Simon Delchambre , Tobias Ziegler , Gerald Hechenblaikner , Walter Fichter

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories, such as the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), employ synthetic Time Delay Interferometry (TDI) to cancel the otherwise overwhelming laser frequency noise. The phase readouts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson Littenberg

Tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can generate spurious displacement noise that potentially affects the measurement of gravitational wave signals. In each test mass interferometer, the coupling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Paul Edwards , Megha Dave , Alexander Weaver , Mengyuan Zhao , Paul Fulda , Guido Mueller , Gudrun Wanner

Tilt-to-length coupling is a technical term for the cross-coupling of angular or lateral jitter into an interferometric phase signal. It is an important noise source in precision interferometers and originates either from changes in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-16 Marie-Sophie Hartig , Sönke Schuster , Gudrun Wanner

We present first-order models for tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling in LISA, both for the individual interferometers as well as in the time-delay interferometry (TDI) Michelson observables. These models include the noise contributions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Gudrun Wanner , Sweta Shah , Martin Staab , Henry Wegener , Sarah Paczkowski

Taiji is a gravitational wave detection mission in space initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which will open the millihertz window through a heliocentric triangular constellation of three drag-free spacecraft. Its ultimate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Chang Liu , Qiong Deng , Huadong Li , Liwei Yang , Xiaodong Peng , Ziren Luo , Yuzhu Zhang , Chen Gao , Xiaotong Wei , Minghui Du , Zihao Xiao , Peng Xu , Bo Liang , Zhi Wang , Li-e Qiang

Taiji, a Chinese space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection project, aims to explore the millihertz GW universe with unprecedented sensitivity. By observing astrophysical and cosmological sources, including Galactic binaries, massive…

This paper is the second in a set of two investigating tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling. TTL describes the cross-coupling of angular or translational jitter into an interferometric phase signal and is an important noise source in precision…

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