The cassini gravitational wave experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4856, Issue , 2002, Pages 90-97

  Abbate, S F ^a   Armstrong, J W ^a   Asmar, S W ^a   Barbinis, E ^a   Bertotti, B ^b   Fleischman, D U ^a   Gatti, M S ^a   Goltz, G L ^a   Herrera, R G ^a   Iess, L ^c   Lee, K J ^a   Ray, T L ^a   Tinto, M ^a   Tortora, P ^c   Wahlquist, H D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doppler tracking; Gravitational radiation

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

DOPPLER TRACKING; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0038444097     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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