Detecting a Gravitational-Radiation Background Using Spacecraft Doppler Tracking
- 6 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (6) , 470-473
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.470
Abstract
The sensitivity of NASA's Deep Space Network spacecraft tracking system to an isotropic cosmological background of gravitational radiation is analyzed. It is found that by using the autocovariance function of the Doppler record in the so-called "three-way" tracking mode to dig into the noise it is possible to put significant limits on this background with current and future planned deep-space missions.Keywords
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