LISA telescope: phase noise due to pointing jitter

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB3A16MaRDI QIDQ5159974zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Yves Vinet, Nicoleta Dinu-Jaeger, Michel Lintz, Nary Man, Mikhaël Pichot, Nelson Christensen

Publication date 28 October 2021

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08566

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational wavesLisaphase noise

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physical optics (78A10) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: In a space based gravitational wave antenna like LISA, involving long light paths linking distant emitter/receiver spacecrafts, signal detection amounts to measuring the light-distance variationsthrough a phase change at the receiver. This is why spurious phase fluctuations due to various mechanical/thermal effects must be carefully studied. We consider here a possible pointing jitter in the light beam sent from the emitter. We show how the resulting phase noise depends on the quality of the wavefront due to the incident beam impinging on the telescope and due to the imperfections of the telescope itself. Namely, we numerically assess the crossed influence of various defects (aberrations and astigmatisms), inherent to a real telescope with pointing fluctuations.

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