The Gravitational Compass: New Space-Based Detection Methods For Circularly Polarized Gravitational Waves
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
4-16-2018
Published In
Bulletin Of The American Physical Society
Abstract
We investigate the sensitivity of space-based gravitational wave observatories based on the platonic solids -- tetrahedron, cube and octohedron -- to a circular polarization of an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (ISGWB) as a function of frequency. For such a detector geometry, each vertex is a drag-free satellite and each edge is a laser interferometer arm. Extrapolating the noise model from LISA to these new geometries, we find that these designs can lead to an increase in sensitivity to an ISGWB.
Conference
APS April Meeting 2018
Conference Dates
April 14-17, 2018
Conference Location
Columbus, OH
Recommended Citation
Tristan L. Smith and R. Caldwell.
(2018).
"The Gravitational Compass: New Space-Based Detection Methods For Circularly Polarized Gravitational Waves".
Bulletin Of The American Physical Society.
Volume 63,
Issue 4.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-physics/382