Speaker
Valerio Ferroni
(University of Trento, TIFPA)
Description
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission LISA measures the strain in 2.5 million km distant free falling test masses couples, for detecting gravitational waves from galactic and extra galactic sources in the low frequency regime between 20 micro-Hz to 1 Hz. The instrument sensitivity is such that LISA would be able also to detect the effect of the gravitational field on its test masses originating from the mass distribution of their housing spacecrafts. We discuss the different levels of coupling, the foreseen design requirements, and the resultant contribution to the current LISA performance budget.
Primary author
Valerio Ferroni
(University of Trento, TIFPA)
Co-author
William Joseph Weber
(university of Trento)
