Response of Doppler spacecraft tracking to gravitational radiation.
Abstract
A calculation is made of the effect of gravity waves on the observed Doppler shift of a sinusoidal electromagnetic signal transmitted to, and transponded from, a distant spacecraft. We find that the effect of plane gravity waves on such observations is not intuitively immediate and in fact can have surprisingly different spectral signatures for different spacecraft directions and distances. We suggest the possibility of detecting such plane waves by simultaneous coherent Doppler tracking of several spacecraft.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- October 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00762449
- Bibcode:
- 1975GReGr...6..439E
- Keywords:
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- Doppler Effect;
- Electromagnetic Wave Transmission;
- Gravitational Waves;
- Relativistic Effects;
- Spacecraft Tracking;
- Frequency Shift;
- Plane Waves;
- Signal Reflection;
- Spectral Signatures;
- Astrophysics