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Published July 31, 2008 | Published
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DECIGO pathfinder

Ando, Masaki
Kawamura, Seiji
Nakamura, Takashi
Tsubono, Kimio
Tanaka, Takahiro
Funaki, Ikkoh
Seto, Naoki
Numata, Kenji
Sato, Shuichi
Ioka, Kunihito ORCID icon
Kanda, Nobuyuki
Takashima, Takeshi
Agatsuma, Kazuhiro
Akutsu, Tomotada ORCID icon
Akutsu, Tomomi
Aoyanagi, Koh-suke
Arai, Koji ORCID icon
Arase, Yuta
Araya, Akito
Asada, Hideki
Aso, Yoichi
Chiba, Takeshi
Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu
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
Kamagasako, Shogo
Kawashima, Nobuki
Kawazoe, Fumiko
Kirihara, Hiroyuki
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
Moriwaki, Shigenori
Mukohyama, Shinji
Musha, Mitsuru
Nagano, Shigeo
Naito, Isao
Nakagawa, Noriyasu
Nakamura, Kouji
Nakano, Hiroyuki
Nakao, Kenichi
Nakasuka, Shinichi
Nakayama, Yoshinori
Nishida, Erina
Nishiyama, Kazutaka
Nishizawa, Atsushi ORCID icon
Niwa, Yoshito
Ohashi, Masatake
Ohishi, Naoko
Ohkawa, Masashi
Okutomi, Akira
Onozato, Kouji
Oohara, Kenichi
Sago, Norichika
Saijo, Motoyuki
Sakagami, Masaaki
Sakai, Shin-ichiro
Sakata, Shihori
Sasaki, Misao
Sato, Takashi
Shibata, Masaru ORCID icon
Shinkai, Hisaaki
Somiya, Kentaro
Sotani, Hajime
Sugiyama, Naoshi
Suwa, Yudai
Tagoshi, Hideyuki
Takahashi, Kakeru
Takahashi, Keitaro
Takahashi, Tadayuki
Takahashi, Hirotaka
Takahashi, Ryuichi
Takahashi, Ryutaro
Takamori, Akiteru
Takano, Tadashi
Taniguchi, Keisuke
Taruya, Atsushi
Tashiro, Hiroyuki
Tokuda, Mitsuru
Tokunari, Masao
Toyoshima, Morio
Tsujikawa, Shinji
Tsunesada, Yoshiki
Ueda, Ken-ichi
Utashima, Masayoshi
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 us fruitful insights into the universe, in particular about dark energy, a formation mechanism of supermassive black holes, and the inflation of the universe. Since DECIGO will be an extremely large mission which will formed by three drag-free spacecraft with 1000m separation, it is significant to gain the technical feasibility of DECIGO before its planned launch in 2024. Thus, we are planning to launch two milestone missions: DPF and pre-DECIGO. The conceptual design and current status of the first milestone mission, DPF, are reviewed in this article.

Additional Information

© 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd. This research was partially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, and by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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