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gr-qc2005★ 74 cited

The Study of the Pioneer Anomaly: New Data and Objectives for New Investigation

Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth, Larry R. Kellogg +2

Radiometric tracking data from Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft has consistently indicated the presence of a small, anomalous, Doppler frequency drift, uniformly changing with a rate o…

gr-qc2005★ 218 cited

BBO and the Neutron-Star-Binary Subtraction Problem

C. Cutler, J. Harms

The Big Bang Observer (BBO) is a proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) mission designed primarily to search for an inflation-generated GW background in the frequency range 0…

gr-qc2005★ 20 cited

The Pioneer Anomaly and Its Implications

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

The Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft yielded the most precise navigation in deep space to date. However, their radio-metric tracking data has consistently indicated the presence of a small…

gr-qc2005★ 5 cited

General Relativistic Decompression of Binary Neutron Stars During Dynamic Inspiral

Mark Miller

We investigate the dynamic stability of inspiraling neutron stars by performing multiple-orbit numerical relativity simulations of the binary neutron star inspiral process. By intr…

gr-qc2005★ 8 cited

Lunar Laser Ranging Contributions to Relativity and Geodesy

Juergen Mueller, James G. Williams, Slava G. Turyshev

Lunar laser ranging (LLR) is used to conduct high-precision measurements of ranges between an observatory on Earth and a laser retro-reflector on the lunar surface. Over the years,…

gr-qc2005★ 275 cited

Gravitational wave snapshots of generic extreme mass ratio inspirals

Steve Drasco, Scott A. Hughes

Using black hole perturbation theory, we calculate the gravitational waves produced by test particles moving on bound geodesic orbits about rotating black holes. The orbits we cons…

gr-qc2005★ 3 cited

Potential Capabilities of Lunar Laser Ranging for Geodesy and Relativity

Juergen Mueller, James G. Williams, Slava G. Turyshev +1

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), which has been carried out for more than 35 years, is used to determine many parameters within the Earth-Moon system. This includes coordinates of terres…

gr-qc2005★ 43 cited

Detecting gravitational waves from precessing binaries of spinning compact objects. II. Search implementation for low-mass binaries

Alessandra Buonanno, Yanbei Chen, Yi Pan +2

Detection template families (DTFs) are built to capture the essential features of true gravitational waveforms using a small set of phenomenological waveform parameters. Buonanno,…

gr-qc2005★ 15 cited

Schwarzschild Tests of the Wahlquist-Estabrook-Buchman-Bardeen Tetrad Formulation for Numerical Relativity

L. T. Buchman, J. M. Bardeen

A first order symmetric hyperbolic tetrad formulation of the Einstein equations developed by Estabrook and Wahlquist and put into a form suitable for numerical relativity by Buchma…

gr-qc2005★ 6 cited

Conservation laws for vacuum tetrad gravity

Frank B. Estabrook

Ten conservation laws in useful polynomial form are derived from a Cartan form and Exterior Differential System (EDS) for the tetrad equations of vacuum relativity. The Noether con…

gr-qc2005★ 3 cited

Fundamental Physics with the Laser Astrometric Test Of Relativity

LATOR Collaboration, S. G. Turyshev, H. Dittus +37

The Laser Astrometric Test Of Relativity (LATOR) is a joint European-U.S. Michelson-Morley-type experiment designed to test the pure tensor metric nature of gravitation - a fundame…

gr-qc2005★ 157 cited

Lunar Laser Ranging Tests of the Equivalence Principle with the Earth and Moon

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

A primary objective of the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) experiment is to provide precise observations of the lunar orbit that contribute to a wide range of science investigations. Tim…

gr-qc2005★ 52 cited

Using Early Data to Illuminate the Pioneer Anomaly

Michael Martin Nieto, John D. Anderson

Analysis of the radio tracking data from the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft at distances between about 20 - 70 AU from the Sun has consistently indicated the presence of an unmodeled, sm…

gr-qc2005★ 13 cited

A Mission to Explore the Pioneer Anomaly

The Pioneer Explorer Collaboration, H. Dittus, S. G. Turyshev +37

The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft yielded the most precise navigation in deep space to date. These spacecraft had exceptional acceleration sensitivity. However, analysis of their ra…

gr-qc2005★ 56 cited

The White Dwarf -- White Dwarf galactic background in the LISA data

Jeffrey A. Edlund, Massimo Tinto, Andrzej Krolak +1

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequen…

gr-qc2005★ 112 cited

Geometric Time Delay Interferometry

Michele Vallisneri

The space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA, a NASA-ESA mission to be launched after 2012, will achieve its optimal sensitivity using Time Delay Interferometry (TDI), a LIS…

gr-qc2005★ 35 cited

Accuracy requirements for the calculation of gravitational waveforms from coalescing compact binaries in numerical relativity

Mark Miller

I discuss the accuracy requirements on numerical relativity calculations of inspiraling compact object binaries whose extracted gravitational waveforms are to be used as templates…