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Interplanetary dust: a source of noise for LISA?

F Rubanu et al 2009 Class. Quantum Grav. 26 225012 (9pp)   doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/26/22/225012  Help

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F Rubanu1, R Poggiani1,2,4 and J Hough3
1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
2 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
3 SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
4 Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed
E-mail: francescorubanu@hotmail.com, rosa.poggiani@df.unipi.it and j.hough@physics.gla.ac.uk

Abstract. This paper reports the investigation of a potential source of noise in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The effect, not yet discussed in the literature, is a phase noise due to the presence of interplanetary dust along the path of LISA laser beams. The investigated source of noise has been found to be negligible in all the analyzed scenarios. We have estimated that the phase noise induced by the interplanetary dust complex is about 11 orders of magnitude below the best LISA sensitivity. A modest increase in the noise level has been found when dust fluctuations due to dust streams or nearby-passing comets are taken into account.

PACS numbers: 04.80.Nn, 42.25.Bs, 96.30.Vb

Print publication: Issue 22 (21 November 2009)
Received 15 May 2009, in final form 11 August 2009
Published 23 October 2009

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