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20142024
most citedLaser Interferometer Space Antenna

1.4k citations · 1.9k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 12 cited

Precision measurements of the magnetic parameters of LISA Pathfinder test masses

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76

A precise characterization of the magnetic properties of LISA Pathfinder free falling test-masses is of special interest for future gravitational wave observatory in space. Magneti…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 13 cited

Magnetic-induced force noise in LISA Pathfinder free-falling test masses

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76

LISA Pathfinder was a mission designed to test key technologies required for gravitational wave detection in space. Magnetically driven forces play a key role in the instrument sen…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 36 cited

Spacecraft and interplanetary contributions to the magnetic environment on-board LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +79

LISA Pathfinder (LPF) has been a space-based mission designed to test new technologies that will be required for a gravitational wave observatory in space. Magnetically driven forc…

physics.space-ph2019★ 25 cited

LISA Pathfinder Performance Confirmed in an Open-Loop Configuration: Results from the Free-Fall Actuation Mode

M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +75

We report on the results of the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) free-fall mode experiment, in which the control force needed to compensate the quasistatic differential force acting on two te…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 62 cited

Temperature stability in the sub-milliHertz band with LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +79

LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was a technology pioneering mission designed to test key technologies required for gravitational wave detection in space. In the low frequency regime (milli-H…

physics.space-ph2019★ 23 cited

Forbush decreases and 2-day GCR flux non-recurrent variations studied with LISA Pathfinder

C. Grimani, M. Armano, H. Audley +82

Non-recurrent short term variations of the galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) flux above 70 MeV n were observed between 2016 February 18 and 2017 July 3 aboard the European Space Age…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 78 cited

LISA Pathfinder Platform Stability and Drag-free Performance

Michele Armano, Heather Audley, Jonathon Baird +75

The science operations of the LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the feasibility of sub-femto-g free-fall of macroscopic test masses necessary to build a LISA-like gravitatio…

physics.ins-det2018★ 65 cited

Precision Charge Control for Isolated Free-Falling Test Masses: LISA Pathfinder Results

M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +82

The LISA Pathfinder charge management device was responsible for neutralising the cosmic ray induced electric charge that inevitably accumulated on the free-falling test masses at…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 42 cited

Calibrating the system dynamics of LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +75

LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was a European Space Agency mission with the aim to test key technologies for future space-borne gravitational-wave observatories like LISA. The main scientif…

physics.space-ph2018★ 40 cited

Characteristics and energy dependence of recurrent galactic cosmic-ray flux depressions and of a Forbush decrease with LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +82

Galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) energy spectra observed in the inner heliosphere are modulated by the solar activity, the solar polarity and structures of solar and interplanetary origin…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 27 cited

Measuring the Galactic Cosmic Ray Flux with the LISA Pathfinder Radiation Monitor

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76

Test mass charging caused by cosmic rays will be a significant source of acceleration noise for space-based gravitational wave detectors like LISA. Operating between December 2015…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 1.4k cited

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Heather Audley, Stanislav Babak +81

Following the selection of The Gravitational Universe by ESA, and the successful flight of LISA Pathfinder, the LISA Consortium now proposes a 4 year mission in response to ESA's c…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 104 cited

Charge-induced force-noise on free-falling test masses: results from LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano, H. Audley, G. Auger +91

We report on electrostatic measurements made on board the European Space Agency mission LISA Pathfinder. Detailed measurements of the charge-induced electrostatic forces exerted on…

physics.ins-det2016

A torsion pendulum ground test of the LISA Pathfinder Free-fall mode

Giuliana Russano

LISA Pathfinder is the technological demonstrator space mission for the future gravitational waves observatory in space eLISA, with the aim of measure the differential acceleration…

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…