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The short-period eclipsing binary ZTFJ1539+5027 discovered by Burdge et al. (2019) will be a strong gravitational-wave source for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We study how well LISA will constrain the parameters of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is being designed to detect and study in detail gravitational waves from sources throughout the Universe such as massive black hole binaries. The conceptual formulation of the LISA space-borne…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Scott E Pollack , Robin Tuck Stebbins

Chern-Simons modified gravity is a string-theory and loop-quantum-gravity inspired effective theory that modifies General Relativity by adding a parity-violating Pontryagin density to the Einstein-Hilbert action multiplied by a coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 Nicolas Yunes , David N. Spergel

The orbital motion of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) introduces modulations into the observed gravitational wave signal. These modulations can be used to determine the location and orientation of a gravitational wave source.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Neil J. Cornish , Louis J. Rubbo

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational waves from galactic binaries (GBs) of white dwarfs or neutron stars. Some of these objects are among the most magnetic astrophysical objects in the Universe. Magnetism, by…

Spin induced precessional modulations of gravitational wave signals from supermassive black hole binaries can improve the estimation of luminosity distance to the source by space based gravitational wave missions like the Laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Adamantios Stavridis , K. G. Arun , Clifford M. Will

Space-based interferometric gravitational wave instruments such as the ESA/NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observe gravitational waves by measuring changes in the light travel time between widely-separated spacecraft. One…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Oliver Jennrich , Nora Lutzgendorf , James Ira Thorpe , Jacob Slutsky , Curt Cutler

Gravitational waves (GWs) produced by sound waves in the primordial plasma during a strong first-order phase transition in the early Universe are going to be a main target of the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-17 Kai Schmitz

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is being developed by ESA with NASA participation. As it has recently passed the Mission Adoption milestone, models of the instruments and noise performance are becoming more detailed,…

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a parity-violating modification of general relativity, is regarded as a low-energy effective theory arising from string theory. Gravitational waves provide a powerful probe for testing its predictions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinyi Che , Xiangyu Lyu , Changfu Shi

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational wave signals from a wide range of sources. However, disentangling individual signals from the source-dominated data stream is a challenging problem and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Jonathan R Gair , Gareth Jones

One of the sources of gravitational waves for the proposed space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), are the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan R. Gair , Christopher Tang , Marta Volonteri

Soon after the observation of the first black hole binary (BHB) by advanced LIGO (aLIGO), GW150914, it was realised that such a massive system would have been observable in the milli-Hz (mHz) band few years prior to coalescence. Operating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Alberto Sesana

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity cannot be strongly constrained with current experiments because it reduces to General Relativity in the weak-field limit. This theory, however, introduces modifications in the non-linear, dynamical regime, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-03 Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based gravitational wave telescope with the goal of measuring gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band, which is dominated by millions of Galactic binaries. While…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonathan R Gair , Martin Hewitson , Antoine Petiteau , Guido Mueller

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), set for launch in the mid-2030s, will enhance our capability to probe the universe through gravitational waves (GWs) emitted from binary black holes (BBHs) across a broad range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-08 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

In the context of the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, galactic binary systems of white dwarfs and neutron stars will represent the dominant source of Gravitational Waves (GWs) within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Stéphane Mathis , Marie-Christine Angonin

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…

Observations of binary inspirals with LISA will allow us to place bounds on alternative theories of gravity and to study the merger history of massive black holes (MBH). These possibilities rely on LISA's parameter estimation accuracy. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti , Alessandra Buonanno , Clifford M. Will