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Home Search Quick Search Advanced Fulltext Browse Collections Persons My eDoc Session History Login Name: Password: Documentation Help Support Wiki Direct access to document ID:	Institute: MPI für Gravitationsphysik     Collection: Laser Interferometry & Gravitational Wave Astronomy     Display Documents   history ID: 435386.0, MPI für Gravitationsphysik / Laser Interferometry & Gravitational Wave Astronomy LISA Pathfinder: the experiment and the route to LISA Authors: Armano, M.; Benedetti, M.; Bogenstahl, J.; Bortoluzzi, D.; Bosetti, P.; Brandt, N.; Cavalleri, A.; Ciani, G.; Cristofolini, I.; Cruise, A. M.; Danzmann, K.; Diepholz, I.; Dixon, G.; Dolesi, R.; Fauste, J.; Ferraioli, L.; Fertin, D.; Fichter, W.; Freschi, M.; Garcia, A.; Garcia, C.; Grynagier, A.; Guzman, F.; Fitzsimons, E.; Heinzel, G.; Hewitson, M.; Hollington, D.; Hough, J.; Hueller, M.; Hoyland, D.; Jennrich, O.; Johlander, B.; Killow, C.; Lobo, A.; Mance, D.; Mateos, I.; McNamara, P. W.; Monsky, A.; Nicolini, D.; Nicolodi, D.; Nofrarias, M.; Perreur-Lloyd, M.; Plagnol, E.; Racca, G. D.; Ramos-Castro, J.; Robertson, D.; Sanjuan, J.; Schulte, M. O.; Shaul, D. N. A.; Smit, M.; Stagnaro, L.; Steier, F.; Sumner, T. J.; Tateo, N.; Tombolato, D.; Vischer, G.; Vitale, S.; Wanner, G.; Ward, H.; Waschke, S.; Wand, V.; Wass, P.; Weber, W. J.; Ziegler, T.; Zweifel, P. Date of Publication (YYYY-MM-DD): 2009 Title of Journal: Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume: 26 Issue / Number: 9 Sequence Number of Article: 094001 Review Status: not specified Audience: Not Specified Abstract / Description: LISA Pathfinder (LPF) is a science and technology demonstrator planned by the European Space Agency in view of the LISA mission. As a scientific payload, the LISA Technology Package on board LPF will be the most precise geodesics explorer flown as of today, both in terms of displacement and acceleration sensitivity. The challenges embodied by LPF make it a unique mission, paving the way towards the space-borne detection of gravitational waves with LISA. This paper summarizes the basics of LPF, and the progress made in preparing its effective implementation in flight. We hereby give an overview of the experiment philosophy and assumptions to carry on the measurement. We report on the mission plan and hardware design advances and on the progress on detailing measurements and operations. Some light will be shed on the related data processing algorithms. In particular, we show how to single out the acceleration noise from the spacecraft motion perturbations, how to account for dynamical deformation parameters distorting the measurement reference and how to decouple the actuation noise via parabolic free flight. External Publication Status: published Document Type: Article Communicated by: Karsten Danzmann Affiliations: MPI für Gravitationsphysik Identifiers: ISI:000265349600002 [ID No:1] ISSN:0264-9381 [ID No:2] The scope and number of records on eDoc is subject to the collection policies defined by each institute - see "info" button in the collection browse view.