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Publications (13)

astro-ph.IM2025

Mitigation of the Flexing-Filtering Effect in Time-Delay Interferometry

Shivani Harer, Martin Staab, Hubert Halloin

In early 2024, ESA formally adopted the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) space mission with the aim of measuring gravitational waves emitted in the millihertz range. The c…

astro-ph.IM2024

Optimal design of interpolation methods for time-delay interferometry

Martin Staab, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Olaf Hartwig +4

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) suppresses laser frequency noise by forming linear combinations of time-shifted interferometric measurements. The time-shift operation is implemente…

gr-qc2023

The influence of laser relative intensity noise in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Lennart Wissel, Olaf Hartwig, Jean-Baptiste Bayle +4

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 precisio…

astro-ph.IM2022

Experimental verification of intersatellite clock synchronization at LISA performance levels

Kohei Yamamoto, Christoph Vorndamme, Olaf Hartwig +3

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) aims to observe gravitational waves in the mHz regime over its 10-year mission time. LISA will operate laser interferometers between t…

astro-ph.IM2023

Laser noise residuals in LISA from onboard processing and time-delay interferometry

Martin Staab, Marc Lilley, Jean-Baptiste Bayle +1

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is a crucial step in the on-ground data processing pipeline of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), as it reduces otherwise overwhelming l…

gr-qc2024

TDI noises transfer functions for LISA

Dam Quang Nam, Yves Lemiere, Antoine Petiteau +4

The LISA mission is the future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory of the European Space Agency. It is formed by 3 spacecraft exchanging laser beams in order to form mu…

gr-qc2022

Time delay interferometry without clock synchronisation

Olaf Hartwig, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Martin Staab +3

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is a data processing technique for LISA designed to suppress the otherwise overwhelming laser noise by several orders of magnitude. It is widely bel…

astro-ph.IM2024

Experimental end-to-end demonstration of intersatellite absolute ranging for LISA

Kohei Yamamoto, Iouri Bykov, Jan Niklas Reinhardt +10

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a gravitational wave detector in space. It relies on a post-processing technique named time-delay interferometry (TDI) to suppress…

gr-qc2025

Modulation-assisted time-delay interferometric ranging for LISA

Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Martin Staab, Samuel P. Francis +3

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

gr-qc2024

Ranging Sensor Fusion in LISA Data Processing: Treatment of Ambiguities, Noise, and On-Board Delays in LISA Ranging Observables

Jan Niklas Reinhardt, Martin Staab, Kohei Yamamoto +6

Interspacecraft ranging is crucial for the suppression of laser frequency noise via time-delay interferometry (TDI). So far, the effects of on-board delays and ambiguities on the L…

astro-ph.IM2024

In-Depth Modeling of Tilt-To-Length Coupling in LISA's Interferometers and TDI Michelson Observables

Gudrun Wanner, Sweta Shah, Martin Staab +2

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 observa…

astro-ph.CO2024

LISA Definition Study Report

Monica Colpi, Karsten Danzmann, Martin Hewitson +108

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves…

gr-qc2021

Adapting time-delay interferometry for LISA data in frequency

Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Olaf Hartwig, Martin Staab

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is a post-processing technique used to reduce laser noise in heterodyne interferometric measurements with unequal armlengths, a situation characteri…