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Modeling spurious forces on the LISA spacecraft across a full solar cycle

Frank, Barrett M.; Piotrzkowski, Brandon; Bolen, Brett +2 more

One source of noise for the laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) will be time-varying changes of the space environment in the form of solar wind particles and photon pressure from fluctuating solar irradiance. The approximate magnitude of these effects can be estimated from the average properties of the solar wind and the solar irradiance. We…