Theory of spacecraft Doppler tracking

Massimo Tinto

Banach Center Publications (1997)

  • Volume: 41, Issue: 2, page 145-154
  • ISSN: 0137-6934

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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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Tinto, Massimo. "Theory of spacecraft Doppler tracking." Banach Center Publications 41.2 (1997): 145-154. <http://eudml.org/doc/252248>.

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