Descope of the ALIA mission. (April 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Descope of the ALIA mission. (April 2015)
- Main Title:
- Descope of the ALIA mission
- Authors:
- Gong, Xuefei
Lau, Yun-Kau
Xu, Shengnian
Amaro-Seoane, Pau
Bai, Shan
Bian, Xing
Cao, Zhoujian
Chen, Gerui
Chen, Xian
Ding, Yanwei
Dong, Peng
Gao, Wei
Heinzel, Gerhard
Li, Ming
Li, Shuo
Liu, Fukun
Luo, Ziren
Shao, Mingxue
Spurzem, Rainer
Sun, Baosan
Tang, Wenlin
Wang, Yan
Xu, Peng
Yu, Pin
Yuan, Yefei
Zhang, Xiaomin
Zhou, Zebing - Abstract:
- Abstract: 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 and the possible scientific merits of the mission options 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.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of physics. Number 610(2015)
- Journal:
- Journal of physics
- Issue:
- Number 610(2015)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 610, Issue 610 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 610
- Issue:
- 610
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0610-0610-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2015-04
- Subjects:
- Physics -- Congresses
530.5 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/1742-6596 ↗
http://ioppublishing.org/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1088/1742-6596/610/1/012011 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1742-6588
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