The Cassini Gravitational Wave Experiment

Abbate, S. F.; Armstrong,  J. W.; Asmar,  S. W.; Barbinis,  E.; Bertotti,  B.; Fleischman,  D. U.; Gatti,  M. S.; Goltz,  G. L.; Herrera,  R. G.; Iess,  L.; Lee,  K. J.; Ray,  T. L.; Tinto,  M.; Tortora,  P.; Wahlquist,  H. D.

The Cassini Gravitational Wave Experiment

Abbate, S. F.; Armstrong, J. W.; Asmar, S. W.; Barbinis, E.; Bertotti, B.; Fleischman, D. U.; Gatti, M. S.; Goltz, G. L.; Herrera, R. G.; Iess, L.; Lee, K. J.; Ray, T. L.; Tinto, M.; Tortora, P.; Wahlquist, H. D.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/9615

Date: 2002-08-22

Citation: Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation
Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA

Abstract:

Doppler tracking experiments using the earth and a distant spacecraft as separated test masses have been used for gravitational wave searches in the low-frequency band. Here we describe the experiment, including the transfer functions of the signals and noises to the Doppler observable, and present the noise statistics and compare them with the pre-experiment noise budget.

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