[gr-qc/0504062] The LTP Experiment on the LISA Pathfinder Mission

Authors: S. Vitale (for LTP Collaboration)

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005

Abstract: We report on the development of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) experiment that will fly on board the LISA Pathfinder mission of the European Space Agency in 2008. We first summarize the science rationale of the experiment aimed at showing the operational feasibility of the so called Transverse-Traceless coordinate frame within the accuracy needed for LISA. We then show briefly the basic features of the instrument and we finally discuss its projected sensitivity and the extrapolation of its results to LISA.

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Apr 15, 2005

0504062 (/preprints/gr-qc)
2005-04-15, 11:45 [edit]

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