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Figure 2
Figure 2: Polarization-averaged power response of the Doppler system to a gravitational wave signal as a function of Fourier frequency. Earth-spacecraft geometry for Cassini’s gravity wave observations in 2000 – 2001 has been used. Blue: response from the direction of Virgo (μ ≃ 0.104). Black: response to randomly polarized sources distributed isotropically on the celestial sphere. Red: response from the direction of the galactic center (μ ≃ 0.9932). Note that in the case of waves from the Galactic center, the three-pulse response function ([52] and Eq. (1*)) for the Cassini geometry is dominated by two pulses separated by only about 0.00034 T2 ≃ 20 s. This gives rise to the strong low-frequency suppression and the approximate sin2 modulation for the Cassini GWE1 geometry and GWs from the galactic center. BepubtkUpdateB2Corrected sign error for μ to galactic center in Figure 2.