Wednesday, March 21, 2012

1203.4476 (Felipe Guzmán Cervantes et al.)

Subtraction of test mass angular noise in the LISA Technology Package
interferometer
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Felipe Guzmán Cervantes, Frank Steier, Gudrun Wanner, Gerhard Heinzel, Karsten Danzmann
We present recent sensitivity measurements of the LISA Technology Package interferometer with articulated mirrors as test masses, actuated by piezo-electric transducers. The required longitudinal displacement resolution of 9 pm/sqrt[Hz] above 3 mHz has been demonstrated with an angular noise that corresponds to the expected in on-orbit operation. The excess noise contribution of this test mass jitter onto the sensitive displacement readout was completely subtracted by fitting the angular interferometric data streams to the longitudinal displacement measurement. Thus, this cross-coupling constitutes no limitation to the required performance of the LISA Technology Package interferometry.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4476

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