DECIGO pathfinder
- Creators
- Ando, Masaki
- Kawamura, Seiji
- Sato, Shuichi
- Nakamura, Takashi
- Tsubono, Kimio
- Araya, Akito
- Funaki, Ikkoh
- Ioka, Kunihito
- Kanda, Nobuyuki
- Moriwaki, Shigenori
- Musha, Mitsuru
- Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
- Numata, Kenji
- Sakai, Shin-ichiro
- Seto, Naoki
- Takashima, Takeshi
- Tanaka, Takahiro
- Agatsuma, Kazuhiro
- Aoyanagi, Koh-suke
- Arai, Koji
- Asada, Hideki
- Aso, Yoichi
- Chiba, Takeshi
- Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu
- Ejiri, Yumiko
- Enoki, Motohiro
- Eriguchi, Yoshiharu
- Fujimoto, Masa-Katsu
- Fujita, Ryuichi
- Fukushima, Mitsuhiro
- Futamase, Toshifumi
- Ganzu, Katsuhiko
- Harada, Tomohiro
- Hashimoto, Tatsuaki
- Hayama, Kazuhiro
- Hikida, Wataru
- Himemoto, Yoshiaki
- Hirabayashi, Hisashi
- Hiramatsu, Takashi
- Hong, Feng-Lei
- Horisawa, Hideyuki
- Hosokawa, Mizuhiko
- Ichiki, Kiyotomo
- Ikegami, Takashi
- Inoue, Kaiki T.
- Ishidoshiro, Koji
- Ishihara, Hideki
- Ishikawa, Takehiko
- Ishizaki, Hideharu
- Ito, Hiroyuki
- Itoh, Yousuke
- Kawashima, Nobuki
- Kawazoe, Fumiko
- Kishimoto, Naoko
- Kiuchi, Kenta
- Kobayashi, Shiho
- Kohri, Kazunori
- Koizumi, Hiroyuki
- Kojima, Yasufumi
- Kokeyama, Keiko
- Kokuyama, Wataru
- Kotake, Kei
- Kozai, Yoshihide
- Kudoh, Hideaki
- Kunimori, Hiroo
- Kuninaka, Hitoshi
- Kuroda, Kazuaki
- Maeda, Kei-ichi
- Matsuhara, Hideo
- Mino, Yasushi
- Miyakawa, Osamu
- Miyoki, Shinji
- Morimoto, Mutsuko Y.
- Morioka, Tomoko
- Morisawa, Toshiyuki
- Mukohyama, Shinji
- Nagano, Shigeo
- Naito, Isao
- Nakamura, Kouji
- Nakano, Hiroyuki
- Nakao, Kenichi
- Nakasuka, Shinichi
- Nakayama, Yoshinori
- Nishida, Erina
- Nishiyama, Kazutaka
- Nishizawa, Atsushi
- Niwa, Yoshito
- Noumi, Taiga
- Obuchi, Yoshiyuki
- Ohashi, Masatake
- Ohishi, Naoko
- Ohkawa, Masashi
- Okada, Norio
- Onozato, Kouji
- Oohara, Kenichi
- Sago, Norichika
- Saijo, Motoyuki
- Sakagami, Masaaki
- Sakata, Shihori
- Sasaki, Misao
- Sato, Takashi
- Shibata, Masaru
- Shinkai, Hisaaki
- Somiya, Kentaro
- Sotani, Hajime
- Sugiyama, Naoshi
- Suwa, Yudai
- Suzuki, Rieko
- Tagoshi, Hideyuki
- Takahashi, Fuminobu
- Takahashi, Kakeru
- Takahashi, Keitaro
- Takahashi, Ryutaro
- Takahashi, Ryuichi
- Takahashi, Tadayuki
- Takahashi, Hirotaka
- Akiteru, Takamori
- Takano, Tadashi
- Taniguchi, Keisuke
- Taruya, Atsushi
- Tashiro, Hiroyuki
- Torii, Yasuo
- Toyoshima, Morio
- Tsujikawa, Shinji
- Tsunesada, Yoshiki
- Ueda, Akitoshi
- Ueda, Ken-ichi
- Utashima, Masayoshi
- Wakabayashi, Yaka
- Yamakawa, Hiroshi
- Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
- Yamazaki, Toshitaka
- Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
- Yoo, Chul-Moon
- Yoshida, Shijun
- Yoshino, Taizoh
Abstract
DECIGO pathfinder (DPF) is a milestone satellite mission for DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory), which is a future space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected to provide fruitful insights into the universe, particularly about dark energy, the formation mechanism of supermassive black holes and the inflation of the universe. Since DECIGO will be an extremely challenging mission, which will be formed by three drag-free spacecraft with 1000 km separation, it is important to increase the technical feasibility of DECIGO before its planned launch in 2024. Thus, we are planning to launch two milestone missions: DPF and pre-DECIGO. In this paper, we review the conceptual design and current status of the first milestone mission, DPF.
Additional Information
© 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd. Print publication: Issue 9 (7 May 2009). Received 31 October 2008, in final form 17 December 2008, Published 20 April 2009. This research was supported by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 14422
- DOI
- 10.1088/0264-9381/26/9/094019
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20090623-081802101
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
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2009-08-13Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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