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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie
GR 13: Gravitationswellen II
GR 13.1: Talk
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 16:45–17:05, A214
Mock Data Challenges for LISA Pathfinder — •Anneke Monsky1, Gudrun Wanner1, Miquel Nofrarias1, Ingo Diepholz1, Martin Hewitson1, Gerhard Heinzel1, Adrien Grynagier2, Mauro Hueller3, Luigi Ferraioli3, Stefano Vitale3, and Karsten Danzmann1 — 1Albert Einstein Institut, Max Planck Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik, Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik Universitaet Hannover, Callinstr 38, 30167 Hannover — 2Institut für Flugmechanik und Flugregelung. 70569 Stuttgart — 3Università di Trento, I-38050 Povo (Italy)
LISA Pathfinder is an ESA space mission designed to test critical technologies for the joint ESA/NASA mission LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). The main mission goal of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) aboard LISA Pathfinder is the verification of free-fall between two test masses with an accuracy of about 3 × 10−14 m s−2 / √Hz [1+(f/3 mHz)2] in a measurement bandwidth (MBW) between 1 mHz and 30 mHz.
The data analysis of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) will comprise a series of discrete experiments, each focussing on a particular noise measurement or characterisation of the instrument in various operating modes. Each of these experiments must be analysed and planned in advance of the mission because the results of a given experiment will have an impact on those that follow. As such, a series of Mock Data Challenges (MDCs) will be developed and carried out with the aim of preparing the analysis tools and optimising the various planned analyses.