Alternative LISA-TAIJI networks [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00746


The space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors, LISA and TAIJI, are planned to be launched in the 2030s. The dual detectors with comparable sensitivities will form a network observing GW with significant advantages. In this work, we report the investigations on the three possible LISA-TAIJI networks for different location and orientation compositions of LISA orbit ($60^\circ$ inclination and tailing the Earth by $20^\circ$) and alternative TAIJI orbit configurations including TAIJIp ($60^\circ$ inclination and leading the Earth by $20^\circ$), TAIJIc ($60^\circ$ inclination and co-located with LISA), TAIJIm ($-60^\circ$ inclination and leading the Earth by $20^\circ$). In the three LISA-TAIJI configurations, the LISA-TAIJIm network shows a best performance on the sky localization and polarization determination for the massive binary system due to their complementary antenna pattern, and LISA-TAIJIc could achieve the best cross correlation and observe the stochastic GW background with an optimal sensitivity.

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G. Wang, W. Ni, W. Han, et. al.
Fri, 7 May 21
23/61

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures