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Published May 7, 2009 | public
Journal Article

DECIGO pathfinder

Ando, Masaki
Kawamura, Seiji
Sato, Shuichi
Nakamura, Takashi
Tsubono, Kimio
Araya, Akito
Funaki, Ikkoh
Ioka, Kunihito ORCID icon
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 ORCID icon
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 ORCID icon
Ishihara, Hideki
Ishikawa, Takehiko
Ishizaki, Hideharu
Ito, Hiroyuki
Itoh, Yousuke
Kawashima, Nobuki
Kawazoe, Fumiko
Kishimoto, Naoko
Kiuchi, Kenta
Kobayashi, Shiho ORCID icon
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 ORCID icon
Niwa, Yoshito
Noumi, Taiga
Obuchi, Yoshiyuki ORCID icon
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 ORCID icon
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.

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