Jacob Slutsky

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on how these kind of thermal diagnostics experiments were simulated in the last LPF Simulation Campaign (November, 2013) involving all the LPF Data Analysis team and using an end-to-end simulator of the whole spacecraft.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show the first results on the magnetic experiments during an end-to-end LISA Pathfinder simulation, and describe the methods under development to map the magnetic field on-board.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art work in this area: A.A. Adhikari, P. A. Ajith, B. Barriga, S.A., A.B. Bennett, J.C. Dooley, E.M. Brandt, J-C. Hohenberger, M.E.Charlton, N.C., C.Chua, C.C, T.Chung, D.Chakrabarty, D-C., D.

TL;DR: The experiments showed that the grabbing positioning and release mechanism, working in its nominal conditions, is capable of releasing the TM into free-fall fulfilling the very strict constraint imposed on the TM residual velocity, in order to allow its capture on behalf of the electrostatic actuation.

TL;DR: A simulator based on the LPF design is developed to compute the close-to-reality actuation voltages and, consequently, the resulting actuation forces, and it is shown that the inaccuracy is mainly caused by the rounding errors in the waveform processing and by the random error caused byThe analog to digital converter random noise in the control loop.