Numerical simulations of the wavefront distortion of inter-spacecraft laser beams caused by solar wind and magnetospheric plasmas

Lingfeng LU (卢凌峰); Ying LIU (刘莹); Huizong DUAN (段会宗); Yuanze JIANG (姜元泽); Hsien-Chi YEH (叶贤基)

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/abab69

Plasma Science and Technology > 2020 > 22(11): 115301. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/abab69

Lingfeng LU (卢凌峰), Ying LIU (刘莹), Huizong DUAN (段会宗), Yuanze JIANG (姜元泽), Hsien-Chi YEH (叶贤基). Numerical simulations of the wavefront distortion of inter-spacecraft laser beams caused by solar wind and magnetospheric plasmas[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2020, 22(11): 115301. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/abab69

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Numerical simulations of the wavefront distortion of inter-spacecraft laser beams caused by solar wind and magnetospheric plasmas

¹ TianQin Research Center for Gravitational Physics and School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai 519082, People's Republic of China
² MOE Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement & Hubei Key Laboratory of Gravitation and Quantum Physics, PGMF and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China

Funds: This work was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2018M643286) and the postdoctoral funding project of the Pearl River Talent Plan.

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Received Date: April 16, 2020
Revised Date: July 29, 2020
Accepted Date: July 30, 2020

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Plasma turbulence may lead to additional wavefront distortion of inter-spacecraft laser beams during the operation of spaceborne gravitational wave (GW) observatories, e.g. TianQin. By making use of the Space Weather Modelling Framework (SWMF) model and realistic orbit data for the TianQin constellation, the characteristic parameters of the plasma turbulence present at the TianQin orbit are obtained. As a first step, this work is based on the assumptions that the cold plasma approximation is valid and that the effects of the electromagnetic field induced by charge separation within the Debye length on the laser’s wavefront can be ignored. An atmospheric turbulence–laser interaction model is then applied to analyze the effects of the plasma turbulence on the inter-spacecraft laser’s wavefront. The preliminary results show that the wavefront distortion caused by the plasma turbulence is 10^–9 rad, which is significantly less than the designated error budget, i.e. 10^–6 rad, and thus will not affect the laser interferometry.
- plasma turbulence,
- gravitational wave detection,
- laser interferometry

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