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Theory of spacecraft Doppler tracking

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  1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Abstract

We present a review of the spacecraft Doppler tracking technique used in broad band searches for gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band. After deriving the transfer functions of a gravitational wave pulse and of the noise sources entering into the Doppler observable, we summarize the upper limits for the amplitudes of gravitational wave bursts, continuous, and of a stochastic background estimated by Doppler tracking experiments.

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Banach Center Publications
1997/41/2
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Pages:
145-154
Main language of publication
English
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences