LISA Technology Package Flight Hardware Test Campaign

  1. Felipe Guzman Cervantes 1
  2. Reinhold Flatscher 2
  3. Domenico Gerardi 2
  4. Johannes Burkhardt 2
  5. Rudiger Gerndt 2
  6. Miquel Nofrarias 3
  7. Jens Reiche 1
  8. Gerhard Heinzel 1
  9. Karsten Danzmann 1
  10. Lluis Gesa Bote 3
  11. Victor Martin 3
  12. Ignacio Mateos 3
  13. Alberto Lobo 3
  1. 1 Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, Hannover, Germany
  2. 2 Astrium GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany
  3. 3 Institut de Ciencies de l’Espai (IEEC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
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Actes de conférence:
9th LISA Symposium, Paris

Éditorial: Astronomical Society of the Pacific

ISBN: 978-1-58381-816-9

Année de publication: 2013

Pages: 141-150

Type: Communication dans un congrès

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Résumé

We present performance measurements of the optical metrology system that will fly as part of the LISA Technology Package experiment. These results were obtained during thermal-vacuum testing of the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft. The optical metrology flight units were integrated in the spacecraft and operated in an artificial space environment at the expected in-orbit thermal limits of 30.5 ◦C and 9.5 ◦C. An interferometer performance of better than 6.4 pm/√Hz in test mass displacement, and 1 nrad/√Hz in test mass angular motion was demonstrated over the entire measurement frequency band of 3-30 mHz.