Abstract
The inter-satellite laser communication of LISA provides three types of measurements, (i) the beatnote between the carrier frequencies of the local laser and the remote laser, called the science measurements or the Doppler measurements, which measures the gravitational wave signal, (ii) the beatnotes of the clock side bands modulated onto the laser, which tries to measure the relative frequency drift of the clocks, (iii) the correlation of the pseudo-random code modulated onto the laser, called the ranging measurements, which intends to measure the absolute distance between the spacecraft. These measurements are described and modelled in details in this chapter. The timing errors and the frequency errors of the clocks are also introduced.
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Wang, Y. (2016). The Inter-spacecraft Measurements. In: First-stage LISA Data Processing and Gravitational Wave Data Analysis. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26389-2_4
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