The LPF laser was a Nd:YAG 1064 nm laser which delivered approximately 35 mW. We immediately demonstrated full functionality!

📄 See journals.aps.org/prd/abstract... for nearly all details about the first subpicometer interferometer flown in space.

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>> Here we present a new, computationally efficient approach to Bayesian data augmentation in the time-frequency domain that avoids repeated, costly matrix operations."

Time-frequency wavelet methods can handle non-stationary noise, but data gaps still lead to spectral leakage. It was previously shown that Bayesian data augmentation/gap filling could mitigate spectral leakage in frequency domain analyses, but the computational cost in that approach is prohibitive.

Here's a summary of the paper:

"In the coming decades, the time that gravitational-wave signals spend in detectors will increase, leading to new challenges in analyzing data, namely non-stationary noise and data gaps. >>

It will take an additional 6 weeks to reach the final operational orbit.

Read more about it here 👉 blogs.esa.int/rocketscienc...

[Credits: text from www.cosmos.esa.int/web/lisa-pat...; video ESA]

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The team commanded five apogee raising manoeuvres, which slowly boosted the elliptical orbit's apogee (furthest point from the earth). On the 6th manoeuvre, commanded on the 12/12/2015), LPF left the Earth behind and headed out towards its final orbit around the 1st Sun-Earth Lagrange point.

These posters highlight the work and the impact of PhD students that worked on LPF and LISA at the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Hannover and Potsdam over the course of the years.

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Looking back at the work of each PhD student on the LISA mission reminds us how deeply this project has shaped their skills, careers and scientific impact.

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She began working on #LISAMission as a graduate student at Montana State University and now focuses on data analysis and EMRI searches for gravitational-wave science. Outside of research, Joey loves running while traveling and is passionate about art + science collaborations. ✨🏃🏻‍♀️

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Learn more about the event at 👉 workshops.ice.csic.es/event/5/

[Image: Industriefotografie Silvia Steinbach]

LISA Pathfinder paved the way for a completely new form of astronomy. We look back on a milestone in space science, and ahead to the scientific revolutions that LISA will bring.

Go LISA! 🚀

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10 years after the successful launch of LISA Pathfinder, we come together at in Barcelona to celebrate the success of this extraordinary mission, which laid the foundations for LISA, the gravitational-wave observatory in space.

It was indeed 💛

✨ WHY: Validate geodetic motion measurement and control for LISA and enable GW detection in space!

✨ WHERE: In a heliocentric orbit near the Sun–Earth L1 point, operating between the Earth and the Sun

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