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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271819400078
Keywords
Gravitational waves; space gravitational wave detectors; intermediate mass black holes; black hole inspirals; neutron star inspirals; dark energy; galactic compact binaries
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Funding
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA15020700, XDB21010100]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFA0302002, 2017YFC0601602]
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AMIGO is a first-generation Astrodynamical Middle-frequency Interferometric Gravitational Wave (GW) Observatory. The scientific goals of AMIGO are to bridge the spectra gap between first-generation high-frequency and low-frequency GW sensitivities: to detect intermediate mass BH coalescence; to detect inspiral phase and predict time of binary black hole coalescences together with binary neutron star & black hole-neutron star coalescences for ground interferometers; to detect compact binary inspirals for studying stellar evolution and galactic population. The mission concept is to use time delay interferometry (TDI) for a nearly triangular formation of three drag-free spacecraft with nominal arm length 10,000 km, emitting laser power 2-10 W and telescope diameter 300-500 mm. The design GW sensitivity in the middle frequency band is 3 x 10(-21) Hz(-1). Both geocentric and heliocentric orbit formations are considered. All options have LISA-like formations, that is, the triangular formation is 60 degrees inclined to the orbit plane. For all solar orbit options of AMIGO, the first-generation TDI satisfies the laser frequency-noise suppression requirement. We also investigate for each option of orbits under study, whether constant equal-arm implementation is feasible. For the solar-orbit options, the acceleration to maintain the formation can be designed to be less than 15 nm/s(2) with the thruster requirement in the 15 mu N range. AMIGO would be a good place to test the feasibility of the constant equal-arm option. Fuel requirement, thruster noise requirement and test mass acceleration actuation requirement are briefly considered. From the orbit study, the solar orbit option is the mission orbit preference. We study the deployment for this orbit option. After a last-stage launch from 300 km Low Earth Orbit (LEO), each S/C's maneuver to an appropriate 2-degree-behind-the-Earth AMIGO formation in 95 days requires only a Delta v of about 80 m/s.
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