11 research outputs found
Resonant Scattering of Gravitational Waves With Electromagnetic Waves
A certain class of exact solutions of Einstein Maxwell spacetime in general
relativity is discussed which demonstrates at the level of theory that, when
certain parametric resonance condition is met, the interaction of
electromagnetic field with a gravitational wave will display certain Liapounov
instability and lead to exponential amplification of a gravitational wave train
described by certain Newman-Penrose component of the Weyl curvature. In some
way akin to a free electron laser in electromagnetic theory, by the conversion
of electromagnetic energy into gravitational energy in a coherent way, the
feasibility of generating a pulsed laser like intense beam of gravitational
wave is displayed.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Descope of the ALIA mission
The present work reports on a feasibility study commissioned by the Chinese
Academy of Sciences of China to explore various possible mission options to
detect gravitational waves in space alternative to that of the eLISA/LISA
mission concept. Based on the relative merits assigned to science and
technological viability, a few representative mission options descoped from the
ALIA mission are considered. A semi-analytic Monte Carlo simulation is carried
out to understand the cosmic black hole merger histories starting from
intermediate mass black holes at high redshift as well as the possible
scientific merits of the mission options considered in probing the light seed
black holes and their coevolution with galaxies in early Universe. The study
indicates that, by choosing the armlength of the interferometer to be three
million kilometers and shifting the sensitivity floor to around one-hundredth
Hz, together with a very moderate improvement on the position noise budget,
there are certain mission options capable of exploring light seed, intermediate
mass black hole binaries at high redshift that are not readily accessible to
eLISA/LISA, and yet the technological requirements seem to within reach in the
next few decades for China
A preliminary study of level 1A data processing of a low–low satellite to satellite tracking mission
With the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission as the prime example, an overview is given on the management and processing of Level 1A data of a low–low satellite to satellite tracking mission. To illustrate the underlying principle and algorithm, a detailed study is made on the K-band ranging (KBR) assembly, which includes the measurement principles, modeling of noises, the generation of Level 1A data from that of Level 0 as well as Level 1A to Level 1B data processing