Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Gravitational Wave International Committee
- Won the 2014 Stefano Braccini Thesis Prize awarded by the Gravitational Wave International Committee
- Selected as the most novel and innovative thesis in the field of gravitational wave physics in 2014
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Keywords
- Ultraprecise Inter-satellite Laser Ranging
- Kalman Filter
- Gravitational Wave Compressed Sensing
- Likelihood Transform
- Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
- Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
- Octahedral Gravitational Observatory
- Inter-satellite Clock Synchronization
- First Stage of LISA Data Processing
- Phenomenological Waveforms
About this book
This thesis covers a diverse set of topics related to space-based gravitational wave detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The core of the thesis is devoted to the preprocessing of the interferometric link data for a LISA constellation, specifically developing optimal Kalman filters to reduce arm length noise due to clock noise. The approach is to apply Kalman filters of increasing complexity to make optimal estimates of relevant quantities such as constellation arm length, relative clock drift, and Doppler frequencies based on the available measurement data. Depending on the complexity of the filter and the simulated data, these Kalman filter estimates can provide up to a few orders of magnitude improvement over simpler estimators. While the basic concept of the LISA measurement (Time Delay Interferometry) was worked out some time ago, this work brings a level of rigor to the processing of the constellation-level data products.
The thesis concludes with some topics related to the eLISA such as a new class of phenomenological waveforms for extreme mass-ratio inspiral sources (EMRIs, one of the main source for eLISA), an octahedral space-based GW detector that does not require drag-free test masses, and some efficient template-search algorithms for the case of relatively high SNR signals.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yan Wang received his Ph.D. in 2009 at Albert-Einstein-Institut Hannover (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik). Since 11/2014 he has been working as research assistant professor, School of Physics, University of Western Australia. He's the winner of the 2014 Stefano Braccini Thesis Prize awarded by the Gravitational Wave International Committee.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: First-stage LISA Data Processing and Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
Book Subtitle: Ultraprecise Inter-satellite Laser Ranging, Clock Synchronization and Novel Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Algorithms
Authors: Yan Wang
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26389-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26388-5Published: 18 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79947-6Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26389-2Published: 10 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 228
Number of Illustrations: 96 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Quantum Optics