We present a review of the spacecraft Doppler tracking technique used in broad band searches for gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band. After deriving the transfer functions of a gravitational wave pulse and of the noise sources entering into the Doppler observable, we summarize the upper limits for the amplitudes of gravitational wave bursts, continuous, and of a stochastic background estimated by Doppler tracking experiments.
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author = {Tinto, Massimo},
title = {Theory of spacecraft Doppler tracking},
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volume = {38},
year = {1997},
pages = {145-154},
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Tinto, Massimo. Theory of spacecraft Doppler tracking. Banach Center Publications, Tome 38 (1997) pp. 145-154. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-bcpv41z2p145bwm/
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