2019/12/16 by Barrett Frank, Frank, Barrett M., B. J. Piotrzkowski +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1912.07715
openalex publication_date 2019/12/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
One source of noise for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be time-varying changes of the space environment in the form of solar wind particles and photon pressure from fluctuating solar irradiance. The approximate magnitude of these effects can be estimated from the average properties of the solar wind and the solar irradiance. We use data taken by the ACE (Advanced Compton Explorer) satellite and the VIRGO (Variability of solar IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations) instrument on the SOHO satellite over an entire solar cycle to calculate the forces due to solar wind and photon pressure irradiance on the LISA spacecraft. We produce a realistic model of the effects of these environmental noise sources and their variation over the expected course of the LISA mission.