Effect of the LISA response function on observations of monochromatic sources

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Vecchio, Alberto ^a   Wickham, Elizabeth D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETER; LASER; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPACE; TIME;

EID: 84927724749     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.082002     Document Type: Article

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