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gr-qc2014★ 3 cited

Free-flight experiments in LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano, H. Audley, G. Auger +89

The LISA Pathfinder mission will demonstrate the technology of drag-free test masses for use as inertial references in future space-based gravitational wave detectors. To accomplis…

gr-qc2014★ 7 cited

Orbit analysis of a geostationary gravitational wave interferometer detector array

Massimo Tinto, Jose C. N. de Araujo, Helio K. Kuga +2

We analyze the trajectories of three geostationary satellites forming the GEOstationary GRAvitational Wave Interferometer (GEOGRAWI)~\cite{tinto}, a space-based laser interferomete…

gr-qc2014★ 36 cited

gLISA: geosynchronous Laser Interferometer Space Antenna concepts with off-the-shelf satellites

Massimo Tinto, Daniel DeBra, Sasha Buchman +1

We discuss two geosynchronous gravitational wave mission concepts, which we generically name gLISA. One relies on the science instrument hosting program onboard geostationary comme…

gr-qc2014★ 277 cited

The LIGO Open Science Center

Michele Vallisneri, Jonah Kanner, Roy Williams +2

The LIGO Open Science Center (LOSC) fulfills LIGO's commitment to release, archive, and serve LIGO data in a broadly accessible way to the scientific community and to the public, a…

gr-qc2014★ 123 cited

New advances in the Gaussian-process approach to pulsar-timing data analysis

Rutger van Haasteren, Michele Vallisneri

In this work we review the application of the theory of Gaussian processes to the modeling of noise in pulsar-timing data analysis, and we derive various useful and optimized repre…

gr-qc2014★ 44 cited

Accelerated Bayesian model-selection and parameter-estimation in continuous gravitational-wave searches with pulsar-timing arrays

Stephen Taylor, Justin Ellis, Jonathan Gair

We describe several new techniques which accelerate Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational-wave emission from supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing arrays. T…

gr-qc2014★ 34 cited

General relativistic laser interferometric observables of the GRACE-Follow-On mission

Slava G. Turyshev, Mikhail V. Sazhin, Viktor T. Toth

We develop a high-precision model for laser ranging interferometric (LRI) observables of the GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission. For this, we study the propagation of an electromag…

gr-qc2014★ 138 cited

Constraints on MOND theory from radio tracking data of the Cassini spacecraft

A. Hees, W. M. Folkner, R. A. Jacobson +1

The MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is an attempt to modify the gravitation theory to solve the Dark Matter problem. This phenomenology is very successful at the galactic level.…

gr-qc2014★ 55 cited

Relativistic formulation of coordinate light time, Doppler and astrometric observables up to the second post-Minkowskian order

A. Hees, S. Bertone, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

Given the extreme accuracy of modern space science, a precise relativistic modeling of observations is required. In particular, it is important to describe properly light propagati…