VINET , J.y.

We compute the low-frequency tail of the power spectral density of thermal noise in the case of an optical Fabry–Perot resonant cavity operating with Laguerre–Gauss modes of orders higher than (0, 0). We show a significant reduction of the thermal noise as the order of the mode increases. We discuss the diffraction losses.

We present formulae for the amplitude modulation of the X,Y and Z TDI combinations for monochromatic gravitational waves and use these to study the LISA angular resolution in the case of large SNR. The angular resolution, Δθ/(0.1 * SNR), is found to lie between 2° and 5° and is somewhat dependent on the ecliptic colatitude angle (β), on the...

The Mock Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data-analysis tools and capabilities and of demonstrating the technical readiness already achieved by the gravitational-wave community in distilling a rich science payoff from the LISA data. The first round of MLDCs has just been completed and the...