LISA GW Space Observatory<p><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/LISACommunityTalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LISACommunityTalks</span></a> </p><p>The <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/LISACommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LISACommunity</span></a> recently hosted a talk by Jan Niklas Reinhardt on a paper by Jan Niklas Reinhardt, Olaf Hartwig, Gerhard Heinzel: "Clock synchronization and light-travel-time estimation for space-based gravitational-wave detectors", linked here 👉 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09832" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2408.09832</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ada2d3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iopscience.iop.org/article/10.</span><span class="invisible">1088/1361-6382/ada2d3</span></a></p><p>Here's a summary of the paper:</p><p>"Space-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as LISA, record interferometric measurements on widely separated satellites. Their clocks are not actively synchronized. Instead, clock synchronization is performed in on-ground data processing using pseudorange measurements, which entangle the interspacecraft ranges with the relative clock desynchronizations. To achieve clock synchronization between the spacecraft, we need to isolate these clock desynchronizations by disentangling the pseudoranges. We introduce a nonstandard Kalman filter algorithm for this purpose, designed for systems where pseudorange measurements are taken in different time frames. This algorithm enables clock synchronization and light travel time estimation with sub-meter accuracy."</p>