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gr-qc2004★ 722 cited

Progress in Lunar Laser Ranging Tests of Relativistic Gravity

James G. Williams, Slava G. Turyshev, Dale H. Boggs

Analyses of laser ranges to the Moon provide increasingly stringent limits on any violation of the Equivalence Principle (EP); they also enable several very accurate tests of relat…

gr-qc2004★ 72 cited

Boundary Conditions for the Einstein Evolution System

Lawrence E. Kidder, Lee Lindblom, Mark A. Scheel +2

New boundary conditions are constructed and tested numerically for a general first-order form of the Einstein evolution system. These conditions prevent constraint violations from…

gr-qc2004★ 81 cited

Lunar Laser Ranging Science: Gravitational Physics and Lunar Interior and Geodesy

James G. Williams, Slava G. Turyshev, Dale H. Boggs +1

Laser pulses fired at retroreflectors on the Moon provide very accurate ranges. Analysis yields information on Earth, Moon, and orbit. The highly accurate retroreflector positions…

gr-qc2004★ 17 cited

The Pioneer Anomaly: The Data, its Meaning, and a Future Test

Michael Martin Nieto, Slava G. Turyshev, John D. Anderson

The radio-metric Doppler tracking data from the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft, from between 20-70 AU, yields an unambiguous and independently confirmed anomalous blue shift drift of a_t…

gr-qc2004★ 19 cited

Mathematical Structure of Tetrad Equations for Vacuum Relativity

Frank B. Estabrook

The tetrad partial differential equations formulated by Buchman and Bardeen for vacuum gravity are shown to be well posed by calculation of the Cartan characters of an associated e…

gr-qc2004★ 54 cited

TDIR: Time-Delay Interferometric Ranging for Space-Borne Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Massimo Tinto, Michele Vallisneri, J. W. Armstrong

Space-borne interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, sensitive in the low-frequency (mHz) band, will fly in the next decade. In these detectors, the spacecraft-to-spacecraft l…

gr-qc2004★ 33 cited

Experimental Design for the LATOR Mission

Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao, Kenneth L. Nordtvedt

This paper discusses experimental design for the Laser Astrometric Test Of Relativity (LATOR) mission. LATOR is designed to reach unprecedented accuracy of 1 part in 10^8 in measur…

gr-qc2004★ 19 cited

Signaling, Entanglement, and Quantum Evolution Beyond Cauchy Horizons

Ulvi Yurtsever, George Hockney

Consider a bipartite entangled system half of which falls through the event horizon of an evaporating black hole, while the other half remains coherently accessible to experiments…

gr-qc2004★ 2 cited

Mission Design for the Laser Astrometric Test Of Relativity

Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao, Kenneth L. Nordtvedt

This paper focuses on the mission design for the Laser Astrometric Test Of Relativity (LATOR). This mission uses laser interferometry between two micro-spacecraft whose lines of si…

gr-qc2004★ 175 cited

Time-Delay Interferometry

Massimo Tinto, Sanjeev V. Dhurandhar

Equal-arm interferometric detectors of gravitational radiation allow phase measurements many orders of magnitude below the intrinsic phase stability of the laser injecting light in…

gr-qc2004★ 25 cited

Simulations of laser locking to a LISA arm

Julien Sylvestre

We present detailed numerical simulations of a laser phase stabilization scheme for LISA, where both lasers emitting along one arm are locked to each other. Including the standard…

gr-qc2004★ 140 cited

Synthetic LISA: Simulating Time Delay Interferometry in a Model LISA

Michele Vallisneri

We report on three numerical experiments on the implementation of Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) for LISA, performed with Synthetic LISA, a C++/Python package that we developed to…

gr-qc2004★ 95 cited

Post-processed time-delay interferometry for LISA

D. A. Shaddock, B. Ware, R. E. Spero +1

High-precision interpolation of LISA phase measurements allows signal reconstruction and formulation of Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) combinations to be conducted in post-process…

gr-qc2004★ 4 cited

A Novel Two-Step Laser Ranging Technique for a Precision Test of the Theory of Gravity

Konstantin Penanen, Talso Chui

All powered spacecraft experience residual systematic acceleration due to anisotropy of the thermal radiation pressure and fuel leakage. The residual acceleration limits the accura…

gr-qc2004★ 18 cited

The LISA Time-Delay Interferometry Zero-Signal Solution. I: Geometrical Properties

Massimo Tinto, Shane L. Larson

Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) is the data processing technique needed for generating interferometric combinations of data measured by the multiple Doppler readouts available onbo…

gr-qc2004★ 289 cited

Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources

Jonathan R Gair, Leor Barack, Teviet Creighton +4

One of the most exciting prospects for the LISA gravitational wave observatory is the detection of gravitational radiation from the inspiral of a compact object into a supermassive…

gr-qc2004★ 74 cited

A quasi-physical family of gravity-wave templates for precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Application to double-spin precessing binaries

Alessandra Buonanno, Yanbei Chen, Yi Pan +1

The gravitational waveforms emitted during the adiabatic inspiral of precessing binaries with two spinning compact bodies of comparable masses, evaluated within the post-Newtonian…

gr-qc2004★ 81 cited

The Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity Mission

Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao, Kenneth L. Nordtvedt

This paper discusses new fundamental physics experiment to test relativistic gravity at the accuracy better than the effects of the 2nd order in the gravitational field strength. T…

gr-qc2004★ 101 cited

Optimal filtering of the LISA data

Andrzej Krolak, Massimo Tinto, Michele Vallisneri

The LISA time-delay-interferometry responses to a gravitational-wave signal are rewritten in a form that accounts for the motion of the LISA constellation around the Sun; the respo…