Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Abstract
Following the selection of The Gravitational Universe by ESA, and the successful flight of LISA Pathfinder, the LISA Consortium now proposes a 4 year mission in response to ESA's call for missions for L3. The observatory will be based on three arms with six active laser links, between three identical spacecraft in a triangular formation separated by 2.5 million km. LISA is an all-sky monitor and will offer a wide view of a dynamic cosmos using Gravitational Waves as new and unique messengers to unveil The Gravitational Universe. It provides the closest ever view of the infant Universe at TeV energy scales, has known sources in the form of verification binaries in the Milky Way, and can probe the entire Universe, from its smallest scales near the horizons of black holes, all the way to cosmological scales. The LISA mission will scan the entire sky as it follows behind the Earth in its orbit, obtaining both polarisations of the Gravitational Waves simultaneously, and will measure source parameters with astrophysically relevant sensitivity in a band from below Hz to above Hz.
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@article{arxiv.1702.00786,
title = {Laser Interferometer Space Antenna},
author = {Pau Amaro-Seoane and Heather Audley and Stanislav Babak and John Baker and Enrico Barausse and Peter Bender and Emanuele Berti and Pierre Binetruy and Michael Born and Daniele Bortoluzzi and Jordan Camp and Chiara Caprini and Vitor Cardoso and Monica Colpi and John Conklin and Neil Cornish and Curt Cutler and Karsten Danzmann and Rita Dolesi and Luigi Ferraioli and Valerio Ferroni and Ewan Fitzsimons and Jonathan Gair and Lluis Gesa Bote and Domenico Giardini and Ferran Gibert and Catia Grimani and Hubert Halloin and Gerhard Heinzel and Thomas Hertog and Martin Hewitson and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann and Daniel Hollington and Mauro Hueller and Henri Inchauspe and Philippe Jetzer and Nikos Karnesis and Christian Killow and Antoine Klein and Bill Klipstein and Natalia Korsakova and Shane L Larson and Jeffrey Livas and Ivan Lloro and Nary Man and Davor Mance and Joseph Martino and Ignacio Mateos and Kirk McKenzie and Sean T McWilliams and Cole Miller and Guido Mueller and Germano Nardini and Gijs Nelemans and Miquel Nofrarias and Antoine Petiteau and Paolo Pivato and Eric Plagnol and Ed Porter and Jens Reiche and David Robertson and Norna Robertson and Elena Rossi and Giuliana Russano and Bernard Schutz and Alberto Sesana and David Shoemaker and Jacob Slutsky and Carlos F. Sopuerta and Tim Sumner and Nicola Tamanini and Ira Thorpe and Michael Troebs and Michele Vallisneri and Alberto Vecchio and Daniele Vetrugno and Stefano Vitale and Marta Volonteri and Gudrun Wanner and Harry Ward and Peter Wass and William Weber and John Ziemer and Peter Zweifel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00786},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Submitted to ESA on January 13th in response to the call for missions for the L3 slot in the Cosmic Vision Programme