Lisa Jardine (1944–2015)

J . F . Jardine Local Homotopy Theory July 8 , 2012

Murray Jardine on Christianity and Modern Technological Society

Synthetic Lisa: Simulating Time Delay Interferometry in a Model Lisa

Synthetic LISA, developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a C++/Python package to simulate the LISA science process at the level of scientific and technical requirements. It generates synthetic time series of the LISA fundamental noises, as filtered through all the Time-Delay-Interferometric (TDI) observables; it provides a streamlined module to compute the TDI responses to gravitational w...

The Mona Lisa effect: is 'our' Lisa fame or fake?

This demonstration uses one of the most famous human faces, the portrait of Mona Lisa, La Gioconda, by Leonardo da Vinci. Usually, we have a very accurate and stable representation of the exact configuration of such a familiar face. Typically, we are able to rapidly recognise even subtle configural changes. However, here we show that an exposure to specific alterations performed on a familiar f...

The LISA Pathfinder mission

In this paper, we describe the current status of the LISA Pathfinder mission, a precursor mission aimed at demonstrating key technologies for future spacebased gravitational wave detectors, like LISA. Since much of the flight hardware has already been constructed and tested, we will show that performance measurements and analysis of these flight components lead to an expected performance of the...