A noise model for the LISA gravitational wave detector

• Grant number: 07/07332-8
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): February 01, 2008
• Effective date (End): January 31, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Frajuca
• Grantee: Juliana Schell
• Home Institution: Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de São Paulo. Ministério da Educação (Brasil). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 06/56041-3 - New physics from space: gravitational waves, AP.TEM

Abstract

LISA is a project of an interferometric gravitational wave detector to be assembled in space, so the abbreviature LISA means Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. The LISA function is to find wavelength fluctuations in the sides of an equilateral triangle with side-length of 5x106km shaped by spaceships in each vertex of the triangle. The goal of this work is to re-elaborate a noise model for the LISA, discovering how the detector sensibility changes with variation in each detector characteristic and suggesting possible modifications in the actual project.