Time-delay interferometry

Living Reviews in Relativity

Volumn 17, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tinto, Massimo ^a   Dhurandhar, Sanjeev V ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Gravitational wave detectors; Interferometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905666084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14338351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2014-6     Document Type: Review

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