I am still completely at a loss on how they will be able to isolate signals. #LISA will hear a constant loud noise of gravitational waves across the whole time and space of the Universe.
And of course also real noise from electronics, mechanics, solar wind/magnetic fields/X-rays, etc.
Sure, but this is basically a single pixel detector and all of the science is in the temporal domain (yes, modulo the arrival time difference for the different arms).
So it's a question of "how many events matching the family of interesting templates vs. noise". If it's a few 1000 per year then it sounds feasible. If it's a few million then I don't know. But what I read now it's the former.
As always you need something which either stands out of the noise floor or can be filtered by some model.
Whether the environment, instruments or signals contribute to the noise does not really matter that much, as long you can model the noise to some extend 😉
I think there was a quite nice paper on that topic about 10yrs ago, but not sure whether I can dig it out again.
@vicgrinberg I just talked about Venus/phosphine in my astrobiology class a couple days ago and said there were no Venus missions planned, I'll have to talk about this today, thanks!
@sundogplanets yay, glad this is a useful bit of news! I think there is also NASA's Davinci mission :) Venus is getting several visitors in the next decade :)
@vicgrinberg@sundogplanets DaVinchi and VERITAS are both in budget stasis, not cancelled, but nothing funded to happen. Hopefully that will improve later in the year, but right now it's not clear if either mission will happen.
So it's really good for the Venus community that EnVision at least is still moving forward.
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