Title Temperature stability in the sub-milliHertz band with LISA Pathfinder
Authors Armano, M. , Audley, H. , Baird, J. , Binetruy, P. , Born, M. , Bortoluzzi, D. , Castelli, E. , Cavalleri, A. , Cesarini, A. , Cruise, A. M. , Danzmann, K. , de Deus Silva, M. , Diepholz, I. , Dixon, G. , Dolesi, R. , Ferraioli, L. , Ferroni, V. , Fitzsimons, E. D. , Freschi, M. , Gesa, L. , Gibert, F. , Giardini, D. , Giusteri, R. , Grimani, C. , Grzymisch, J. , Harrison, I. , Heinzel, G. , Hewitson, M. , Hollington, D. , Hoyland, D. , Hueller, M. , Inchauspe, H. , Jennrich, O. , Jetzer, P. , Karnesis, N. , Kaune, B. , Korsakova, N. , Killow, C. J. , Lobo, J. A. , Lloro, I. , Liu, L. , Lopez-Zaragoza, J. P. , Maarschalkerweerd, R. , Mance, D. , Mansanet, C. , Martin, V. , Martin-Polo, L. , Martino, J. , Martin-Porqueras, F. , Mateos, I. , McNamara, P. W. , Mendes, J. , Mendes, L. , Meshksar, N. , Nofrarias, M. , Paczkowski, S. , Perreur-Lloyd, M. , Petiteau, A. , Pivato, P. , Plagnol, E. , Ramos-Castro, J. , Reiche, J. , Robertson, D. I. , RIVAS GARCÍA, FRANCISCO, Russano, G. , Sanjuan, J. , Slutsky, J. , Sopuerta, C. F. , Sumner, T. , Texier, D. , Thorpe, J. I. , Trenkel, C. , Vetrugno, D. , Vitale, S. , Wanner, G. , Ward, H. , Wass, P. J. , Wealthy, D. , Weber, W. J. , Wissel, L. , Wittchen, A. , Zweifel, P.
External publication Si
Means Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc.
Scope Article
Nature Científica
JCR Quartile 1
SJR Quartile 1
JCR Impact 5.35600
SJR Impact 1.93700
Publication date 01/07/2019
ISI 000474903500027
DOI 10.1093/mnras/stz1017
Abstract 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 (milliHertz and below), where space-based gravitational wave observatories will operate, temperature fluctuations play a crucial role since they can couple into the interferometric measurement and the test masses\' free-fall accuracy in many ways. A dedicated temperature measurement subsystem, with noise levels in 10 mu KHz(-1/2) down to 1 mHz was part of the diagnostics unit onboard LPF. In this paper we report on the temperature measurements throughout mission operations, characterize the thermal environment, estimate transfer functions between different locations, and report temperature stability (and its time evolution) at frequencies as low as 10 mu Hz, where typically values around 1KHz(-1/2) were measured.
Keywords gravitational waves; space vehicles: instruments
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