Advances in spacecraft micro-vibration suppression methods

X Jiao, J Zhang, W Li, Y Wang, W Ma, Y Zhao - Progress in Aerospace …, 2023 - Elsevier
The micro-vibration generated by various disturbance sources on spacecraft seriously
affects the observation and imaging accuracy. Thus, some measures must be taken to …

Review of micro propulsion technology for space gravitational waves detection

H Liu, X Niu, M Zeng, S Wang, K Cui, D Yu - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
Gravitational Wave (GW) signal was first detected by Advanced Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO) in 2005 making GW detection a hotspot. The low …

The laser interferometer space antenna: Unveiling the millihertz gravitational wave sky

J Baker, J Bellovary, PL Bender, E Berti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The first terrestrial gravitational wave interferometers have dramatically underscored the
scientific value of observing the Universe through an entirely different window, and of folding …

Sensor noise in LISA Pathfinder: An extensive in-flight review of the angular and longitudinal interferometric measurement system

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird, P Binétruy, M Born… - Physical review D, 2022 - APS
In a previous article, we have reported on the first subpicometer interferometer flown in
space as part of ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission, and have shown the residual sensor noise …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum physics in space

A Belenchia, M Carlesso, Ö Bayraktar, D Dequal… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in quantum technologies are giving rise to a revolution in the way fundamental
physics questions are explored at the empirical level. At the same time, they are the seeds …

First search for ultralight dark matter with a space-based gravitational-wave antenna: LISA Pathfinder

AL Miller, L Mendes - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present here results from the first-ever search for dark-photon dark matter that could
have coupled to baryons in LISA Pathfinder, the technology demonstrator for a space-based …

Riding the dark matter wave: Novel limits on general dark photons from LISA Pathfinder

J Frerick, J Jaeckel, F Kahlhoefer, K Schmidt-Hoberg - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
We note the possibility to perform a parametrically improved search for gauged baryon (B)
and baryon minus lepton (B− L) Dark Photon Dark Matter (DPDM) using auxiliary channel …

Drag-free design based on embedded model control for TianQin project

C Xiao, E Canuto, W Hong, Z Zhou, J Luo - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
With the ability to detect low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs), space-borne detectors
will play an important role in exploring the universe in the future. The TianQin project …

Fractional Laser-Frequency Stability with a 7-cm Unequal-Arm Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

V Huarcaya, MD Álvarez, D Penkert, S Gozzo… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
To achieve subpicometer sensitivities in the millihertz band, laser interferometric inertial
sensors rely on some form of reduction of the laser-frequency noise, typically by locking the …

Platform and environment requirements of a satellite quantum test of the weak equivalence principle at the level

C Struckmann, R Corgier, S Loriani, G Kleinsteinberg… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The space-time explorer and quantum equivalence principle space test (STE-QUEST)
recently proposed, aims at performing a precision test of the weak equivalence principle …