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For the laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) to reach it's design sensitivity, the coupling of the free running laser frequency noise to the signal readout must be reduced by more than 14 orders of magnitude. One technique employed to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-17 Kirk McKenzie , Robert E. Spero , Daniel A. Shaddock

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the mHz band of the gravitational wave spectrum for exploration. Sensitivity curves are a useful tool for surveying the types of sources that can be detected by the LISA mission. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Travis Robson , Neil Cornish , Chang Liu

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory to measure gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band. This frequency band is expected to be dominated by signals from millions of Galactic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will explore the source-rich milli-Hertz band of the gravitational wave spectrum. In contrast to ground based detectors, where typical signals are short-lived and discrete, LISA signals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-09 Travis Robson , Neil Cornish

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

We consider the general problem of estimating the inflight LISA noise power spectra and cross-spectra, which are needed for detecting and estimating the gravitational wave signals present in the LISA data. For the LISA baseline design and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre , Massimo Tinto

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

We present data analysis methods used in detection and the estimation of parameters of gravitational wave signals from the white dwarf binaries in the mock LISA data challenge. Our main focus is on the analysis of challenge 3.1, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-23 Arkadiusz Błaut , Stanislav Babak , Andrzej Królak

Faced with the scarcity of clean label data in real scenarios, seismic denoising methods based on supervised learning (SL) often encounter performance limitations. Specifically, when a model trained on synthetic data is directly applied to…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Shijun Cheng , Zhiyao Cheng , Chao Jiang , Weijian Mao , Qingchen Zhang

A phase-locking configuration for LISA is proposed that provides a significantly simpler mode of operation. The scheme provides one Sagnac signal readout inherently insensitive to laser frequency noise and optical bench motion for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel A. Shaddock

Extracting gravitational wave (GW) signals from individual Galactic binaries (GBs) against their self-generated confusion noise is a key data analysis challenge for space-borne detectors operating in the $\approx 0.1$ mHz to $\approx 10$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Xue-Hao Zhang , Shao-Dong Zhao , Soumya D. Mohanty , Yu-Xiao Liu

This paper investigates the problem of maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted MISO communication systems. The problem will be reformulated as a complex quadratic form problem with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Xuehui Dong , Rujing Xiong , Tiebin Mi , Yuan Xie , Robert Caiming Qiu

Given the recent advances in gravitational-wave detection technologies, the detection and characterisation of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a real possibility. To assess the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Carlo R. Contaldi , Mauro Pieroni , Arianna I. Renzini , Giulia Cusin , Nikos Karnesis , Marco Peloso , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

LISA is an upcoming ESA mission that will detect gravitational waves in space by interferometrically measuring the separation between free-falling test masses at picometer precision. To reach the desired performance, LISA will employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-23 Lennart Wissel , Olaf Hartwig , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Martin Staab , Ewan D. Fitzsimons , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel

For future configurations, we study the relation between the abatement of the noise sources and the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) for coalescing binaries. Our aim is not the proposition of a new design, but an indication of where in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci , Sofiane Aoudia , Jose De Freitas Pacheco , Giorgio Frossati , Tania Regimbau

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna LISA represents the next frontier in gravitationalwave GW astronomy targeting the detection of millihertz gravitational signals Central to LISAs operation is the nanosecondprecision estimation of the light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Martin Staab , Samuel P. Francis , Emily Rose Rees , Robert Spero , Gerhard Heinzel

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

This paper presents an adaptable, parallelizable method for subtracting linearly coupled noise from Advanced LIGO data. We explain the features developed to ensure that the process is robust enough to handle the variability present in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-27 D. Davis , T. J. Massinger , A. P. Lundgren , J. C. Driggers , A. L. Urban , L. K. Nuttall

We consider high-dimensional measurement errors with high-frequency data. Our objective is on recovering the high-dimensional cross-sectional covariance matrix of the random errors with optimality. In this problem, not all components of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Jinyuan Chang , Qiao Hu , Cheng Liu , Cheng Yong Tang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can actively perform beamforming and have become a crucial enabler for wireless systems in the future. The direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimates of RIS received signals can help design the reflection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-03 Canping Yu , Yingsong Li , Liping Li , Zhixiang Huang , Qingqing Wu , Rodrigo C. de Lamare