Laser interferometry for the Big Bang Observer

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Gregory M Harry · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P. Fritschel · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

D. A. Shaddock · Jet Propulsion Laboratory

W. M. Folkner · Jet Propulsion Laboratory

E. S. Phinney · California Institute of Technology

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The Big Bang Observer is a proposed space-based gravitational-wave detector intended as a follow on mission to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). It is designed to detect the stochastic background of gravitational waves from the early universe. We discuss how the interferometry can be arranged between three spacecraft for this mission and what research and development on key technologies are necessary to realize this scheme.

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Advanced Frequency and Time Standards Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

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Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volume 23, Issue 15, pp. 4887-4894

DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/15/008

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Laser interferometry for the Big Bang Observer

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