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  "abstract": "Precision tracking of Earth--Moon and Earth--satellite ranges offers a novel, low-frequency avenue for detecting gravitational waves from inspiralling massive black hole binaries, complementary to space-based interferometers. In this paper, we propose a first study of the reconstruction of the binary parameters from a synthetic set of range observations. \\textit{Set-up}: Assuming an ideal unperturbed Keplerian motion for the earth-satellite binary, we develop a framework for reconstructing the chirp mass $\\mathcal M_c$ and luminosity distance $D_L$ of chirping sources from the perturbations they induce on ranging observables, using both Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) and a two-satellite ranging configuration (GUEST) as concrete case studies. \\textit{Result}: We find that chirp-mass recovery tightly converges as a power law in SNR ($σ_{M_c}/M_c \\propto \\mathrm{SNR}^α$, $α\\simeq -1$ to $-1.8$) for both LLR and GUEST. In contrast, the luminosity distance suffers from a severe, SNR-independent degeneracy with the sky-orientation angles in the LLR configuration, yielding fractional biases and uncertainties of tens to over a hundred percent regardless of signal strength. The two-satellite GUEST configuration breaks this degeneracy and restores a convergent, SNR-dependent recovery of $D_L$ comparable in scaling to that of the chirp mass. These results demonstrate that multi-baseline ranging architectures are essential for extracting luminosity-distance information from ranging-based gravitational wave searches, while chirp-mass measurements remain reliably accessible even with a single ranging baseline such as the Earth--Moon system.",
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      "name": "Miguel Vanvlasselaer"
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2608.28753",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.28753",
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  "published": "2026-08-28",
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  "title": "Inspiralling Binary merger parameter reconstruction with lunar and satellite Laser Ranging",
  "title_text": "Inspiralling Binary merger parameter reconstruction with lunar and satellite Laser Ranging",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/efr6124cvf48q",
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