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most citedTime-Delay Interferometry and Clock-Noise Calibration

77 citations · 584 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

gr-qc2026

Impact of Spacecraft Orbit Uncertainties and Velocity Mismodeling on the LISA Gravitational-Wave Response

Lorenzo Speri, Olaf Hartwig, Waldemar Martens +5

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a space-based gravitational wave observatory that consists of three spacecraft in a near-equilateral triangular formation. The spac…

astro-ph.IM2026

LISA science ground segment conventions

Quentin Baghi, Stanislas Babak, Leor Barack +22

This document sets out the conventions used for data simulations, waveforms, and analysis pipelines within the Distributed Data Processing Centre (DDPC) of the Laser Interferometer…

astro-ph.IM2025

Searching systematically for coupling of laser and phase-modulation noise in heterodyne interferometry

Kohei Yamamoto, Olaf Hartwig, Lennart Wissel +3

Heterodyne interferometry for precision science often comes with an optical phase modulation, for example, for intersatellite clock noise transfer for gravitational wave (GW) detec…

gr-qc2025

Applying TDI to Hardware-Simulated Data

Reid Ferguson, Olaf Hartwig, Guido Mueller

Many years of development have gone into producing instruments that meet the required noise performance of the LISA interferometric detection system. Concurrently, software simulat…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 6 cited

Observable-based reformulation of time-delay interferometry

Kohei Yamamoto, Jan Niklas Reinhardt, Olaf Hartwig

Spaceborne gravitational-wave observatories utilize a postprocessing technique known as time-delay interferometry (TDI) to reduce the otherwise overwhelming laser frequency noise b…

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-qc2024★ 5 cited

Clock synchronization and light-travel-time estimation for space-based gravitational-wave detectors

Jan Niklas Reinhardt, Olaf Hartwig, Gerhard Heinzel

Space-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as LISA, record interferometric measurements on widely separated satellites. Their clocks are not synced actively. Instead, clock syn…

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-qc2024★ 8 cited

Time-delay interferometry with onboard optical delays

Jan Niklas Reinhardt, Philipp Euringer, Olaf Hartwig +3

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is a data processing technique for space-based gravitational-wave detectors to create laser-noise-free equal-optical-path-length interferometers vir…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 45 cited

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-qc2023★ 23 cited

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.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…

astro-ph.IM2023

End-to-end simulation and analysis pipeline for LISA

Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Olaf Hartwig, Marc Lilley +4

The data produced by the future space-based millihertz gravitational-wave detector LISA will require nontrivial pre-processing, which might affect the science results. It is crucia…

gr-qc2023★ 48 cited

Stochastic gravitational wave background reconstruction for a non-equilateral and unequal-noise LISA constellation

Olaf Hartwig, Marc Lilley, Martina Muratore +1

We explore the impact of choosing different sets of Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) variables for detecting and reconstructing Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) signa…

gr-qc2023★ 17 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 56 cited

Unified model for the LISA measurements and instrument simulations

Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Olaf Hartwig

LISA is a space-based mHz gravitational-wave observatory, with a planned launch in 2034. It is expected to be the first detector of its kind, and will present unique challenges in…

gr-qc2022★ 30 cited

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

On the effectiveness of null TDI channels as instrument noise monitors in LISA

Martina Muratore, Olaf Hartwig, Daniele Vetrugno +2

We present a study of the use and limits of the Time-Delay Interferometry null channels for in flight estimation of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna instrumental noise. The p…

gr-qc2022★ 32 cited

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.IM2021★ 39 cited

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…

gr-qc2021★ 41 cited

Characterization of Time Delay Interferometry combinations for the LISA instrument noise

Olaf Hartwig, Martina Muratore

Time delay interferometry (TDI) is a post-processing technique used in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to reduce laser frequency noise by building an equal-arm interf…

gr-qc2021★ 47 cited

Time Delay Interferometry combinations as instrument noise monitors for LISA

Martina Muratore, Daniele Vetrugno, Stefano Vitale +1

The LISA mission will likely be a signal dominated detector, such that one challenge is the separation of the different astrophysical sources, and to distinguish between them and t…

gr-qc2021★ 40 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 70 cited

Clock-jitter reduction in LISA time-delay interferometry combinations

Olaf Hartwig, Jean-Baptiste Bayle

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a European Space Agency mission that aims to measure gravitational waves in the millihertz range. The three-spacecraft constellatio…