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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open three decades of gravitational wave (GW) spectrum between 0.1 and 100 mHz, the mHz band. This band is expected to be the richest part of the GW spectrum, in types of sources, numbers…

Galactic compact binaries with orbital periods shorter than a few hours emit detectable gravitational waves at low frequencies. Their gravitational wave signals can be detected with the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is poised to revolutionize astrophysics and cosmology in the late 2030's by unlocking unprecedented insights into the most energetic and elusive astrophysical phenomena. The mission envisages…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-18 Gerhard Heinzel , Javier Álvarez-Vizoso , Miguel Dovale-Álvarez , Karsten Wiesner

Space-based gravitational wave detectors based on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) design operate by synthesizing one or more interferometers from fringe velocity measurements generated by changes in the light travel time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 Karan P. Jani , Lee Samuel Finn , Matthew J. Benacquista

Arm locking is a technique that has been proposed for reducing laser frequency fluctuations in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a gravitational-wave observatory sensitive in the milliHertz frequency band. Arm locking takes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-13 James Ira Thorpe , Peiman Maghami , Jeffrey Livas

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational radiation in the milliHertz band by measuring picometer-level fluctuations in the distance between drag-free proof masses over baselines of approximately five million…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 James Ira Thorpe

This document briefly describes the noise models and shapes used for the synthesis of the Drag-Free and Attitude Control System in the LISA space mission. LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is one of the next large-class missions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Michele Pagone , Carlo Novara

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission features a three-spacecraft long-arm constellation intended to detect gravitational wave sources in the low-frequency band up to 1 Hz via laser interferometry. The paper presents an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-24 Niklas Houba , Simon Delchambre , Tobias Ziegler , Gerald Hechenblaikner , Walter Fichter

Laser frequency stabilization is notably one of the major challenges on the way to a space-borne gravitational wave observatory. The proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is presently under development in an ESA, NASA…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Markus Herz

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…

In early 2024, ESA formally adopted the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) space mission with the aim of measuring gravitational waves emitted in the millihertz range. The constellation employs three spacecraft that exchange laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Shivani Harer , Martin Staab , Hubert Halloin

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the mid-2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in the millihertz band. LISA is an ESA flagship mission,…

The space mission LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), scheduled for launch in 2035, aims to detect gravitational wave (GW) signals in the milli-Hz band. In the context of ESA Voyage 2050 Call for new mission concepts, other frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Alice Perego , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana , Silvia Toonen , Valeriya Korol

One of the atom interferometer gravitational wave missions proposed by Dimopoulos et al.1 in 2008 was called AGIS-Sat. 2. It had a suggested gravitational wave sensitivity set by the atom state detection shot noise level that started at 1…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Peter L. Bender

LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly $(0.03 - 0.1) {\rm mHz} \lesssim f \lesssim 0.1 {\rm Hz}$. This is expected to be an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Scott A. Hughes

A space-based gravitational-wave detector, LISA, consists of a triangle of three spacecrafts with a separation distance of 2.5 million kilometers in a heliocentric orbit behind the Earth. Like LISA, Taiji is compose of a triangle of three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Wen-Hong Ruan , Chang Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Yue-Liang Wu , Rong-Gen Cai

LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly (0.03 - 0.1) mHz < f < 0.1 Hz. This is expected to be an extremely rich chunk of the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-02 Scott A. Hughes

In order to attain the requisite sensitivity for LISA - a joint space mission of the ESA and NASA- the laser frequency noise must be suppressed below the secondary noises such as the optical path noise, acceleration noise etc. By combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 S. V. Dhurandhar , K. Rajesh Nayak , J-Y. Vinet

Designed to detect gravitational waves in the lower-frequency band, the space mission LISA will open a new window to astronomy after its launch in the 2030s. Each LISA spacecraft houses two optical benches that require the exchange of a…

The space-based gravitational wave detector LISA will observe in the low-frequency gravitational-wave band (0.1 mHz up to 1 Hz). LISA will search for a variety of expected signals, and when it detects a signal it will have to determine a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Schutz