LISA and the LISA Science Team
Abstract
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, due to launch mid-2035, is a large class space mission by the European Space Agency (ESA). In partnership with NASA and ESA-member states, ESA is on track to launch what is expected to be the first space-based gravitational wave detector. By hosting detectors in space, one gains access to a lower frequency band of gravitational wave sources and, with them, a plethora of new science. To maximise this scientific gain, ESA and NASA selected 20 scientists for the LISA Science Team to carry out and/or lead the necessary actions leading up to LISA's launch. We give a short overview and update of the LISA mission, its science objectives and related waveforms, as well as the work of the LISA Science Team as of April 2026.
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@article{arxiv.2601.15365,
title = {LISA and the LISA Science Team},
author = {Anna Heffernan and Chiara Caprini and Neil Cornish and Jonathan Gair and Catia Grimani and Zoltan Haiman and Erin Kara and Nikos Karnesis and Valeriya Korol and Astrid Lamberts and Nora Lützgendorf and Guido Müller and Gijs Nelemans and Antoine Petiteau and Elena Maria Rossi and Alberto Sesana and Joey Shapiro Key and Deirdre Shoemaker and Krista Lynne Smith and Stephen R. Taylor and Alberto Vecchio and William Joseph Weber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15365},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
18 pages, originally an extended abstract for the meeting, Mathematical Methods for the Two-Body Problem at NUS, Singapore. This has now been updated and extended for submission to CQG