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Reply to the Bayle {\it et al.} gr-qc document dated June 7, 2021}

Massimo Tinto·Sanjeev Dhurandhar·Prasanna Joshi
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We address the two issues raised by Bayle, Vallisneri, Babak, and Petiteau (in their gr-qc document arXiv:2106.03976) about our matrix formulation of Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) (arXiv:2105.02054) \cite{TDJ21}. In so doing we explain and quantify our concerns about the results derived by Vallisneri, Bayle, Babak and Petiteau \cite{Vallisneri2020} by applying their data processing technique (named TDI-$\infty$) to the two heterodyne measurements made by a two-arm space-based GW interferometer. First we show that the solutions identified by the TDI-$\infty$ algorithm derived by Vallisneri, Bayle, Babak and Petiteau \cite{Vallisneri2020} {\underbar {do}} depend on the boundary-conditions selected for the two-way Doppler data. We prove this by adopting the (non-physical) boundary conditions used by Vallisneri {\it et al.} and deriving the corresponding analytic expression for a laser-noise-canceling combination. We show it to be characterized by a number of Doppler measurement terms that grows with the observation time and works for any time-dependent time delays. We then prove that, for a constant-arm-length interferometer whose two-way light times are equal to twice and three-times the sampling time, the solutions identified by TDI-$\infty$ are linear combinations of the TDI variable $X$. In the second part of this document we address the concern expressed by Bayle {\it et al.} regarding our matrix formulation of TDI when the two-way light-times are constant but not equal to integer multiples of the sampling time. We mathematically prove the homomorphism between the delay operators and their matrix representation \cite{TDJ21} holds in general. By sequentially applying two order-$m$ Fractional-Delay (FD) Lagrange filters of delays $l_1$, $l_2$ we find its result to be equal to applying an order-$m$ FD Lagrange filter of delay $l_1 + l_2$.

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Massimo Tinto, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Prasanna Joshi. 2021-06-19. Reply to the Bayle {\it et al.} gr-qc document dated June 7, 2021}. https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10553

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