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Laser frequency noise suppression is a critical requirement for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves. The baseline laser stabilization is achieved using cavity pre-stabilization and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil , Andrew Wade , David Rabeling , Jue Zhang , Daniel Shaddock , Kirk McKenzie

LISA is an array of three spacecraft flying in an approximately equilateral triangle configuration, which will be used as a low-frequency detector of gravitational waves. Recently a technique has been proposed for suppressing the phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Tinto , Malik Rakhmanov

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

We propose two distinct atom interferometer gravitational wave detectors, one terrestrial and another satellite-based, utilizing the core technology of the Stanford 10 m atom interferometer presently under construction. Each configuration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-07 Savas Dimopoulos , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will operate as an AM/FM receiver for gravitational waves. For binary systems, the source location, orientation and orbital phase are encoded in the amplitude and frequency modulation. The same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Neil J. Cornish , Shane L. Larson

The Laser Ranging Interferometer (LRI) instrument on the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Follow-On mission has provided the first laser interferometric range measurements between remote spacecraft, separated by approximately…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Klaus Abich , Claus Braxmaier , Martin Gohlke , Josep Sanjuan , Alexander Abramovici , Brian Bachman Okihiro , David C. Barr , Maxime P. Bize , Michael J. Burke , Ken C. Clark , Glenn de Vine , Jeffrey A. Dickson , Serge Dubovitsky , William M. Folkner , Samuel Francis , Martin S. Gilbert , Mark Katsumura , William Klipstein , Kameron Larsen , Carl Christian Liebe , Jehhal Liu , Kirk McKenzie , Phillip R. Morton , Alexander T. Murray , Don J. Nguyen , Joshua A. Ravich , Daniel Shaddock , Robert Spero , Gary Spiers , Andrew Sutton , Joseph Trinh , Duo Wang , Rabi T. Wang , Brent Ware , Christopher Woodruff , Bengie Amparan , Mike A. Davis , James Howell , Micah Kruger , Lynette Lobmeyer , Robert Pierce , Gretchen Reavis , Michael Sileo , Michelle Stephens , Andreas Baatzsch , Christian Dahl , Katrin Dahl , Frank Gilles , Philipp Hager , Mark Herding , Marina Kaufer , Kolja Nicklaus , Kai Voss , Christina Bogan , Karsten Danzmann , Germán Fernández Barranco , Gerhard Heinzel , Alexander Koch , Christoph Mahrdt , Malte Misfeldt , Vitali Müller , Jens Reiche , Daniel Schütze , Benjamin Sheard , Gunnar Stede , Henry Wegener , Andreas Eckardt , Burghardt Guenther , Thomas Mangoldt , Bernd Zender , Thomas Ester , Frank Heine , Christoph Seiter , Steve Windisch , Reinhold Flatscher , Frank Flechtner , Nicolas Grossard , Jerome Hauden , Martin Hinz , Thomas Leikert , Marcus Zimmermann , Anton Lebeda , Arnold Lebeda

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

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable direct observations of low-frequency gravitational waves, offering unprecedented insight into astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. LISA's heterodyne interferometric measurement…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-26 Gerhard Heinzel , Javier Álvarez-Vizoso , Miguel Dovale-Álvarez

This article reviews current efforts and plans for gravitational-wave detection, the gravitational-wave sources that might be detected, and the information that the detectors might extract from the observed waves. Special attention is paid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kip S. Thorne

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) guarantees the detection of gravitational waves by monitoring a handful of known nearby galactic binary systems, the so-called ``verification binaries''. We consider the most updated information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Stroeer , A. Vecchio

We investigate the possibility of observing very small amplitude low frequency solar oscillations with the proposed laser interferometer space antenna LISA. For frequencies below $\sim 2\times 10^{-4}$ Hz the dominant contribution is from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. W. Roxburgh , A. G. Polnarev , G. Giampieri , S. V. Vorontsov

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission aims to detect gravitational waves by interferometrically measuring the change of separation between free-falling test masses (TMs). LISA's interferometers must deliver pm/rtHz…

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…

The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) presents a novel concept for observing gravitational waves from astrophysical sources at sub-Hertz frequencies. Compared to the Earth, the seismic environment of the moon, while uncertain, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Brett N. Shapiro

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is a foreseen gravitational wave detector, which aims to detect $10^{-20}$ strains in the frequency range from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. It is a triangular constellation, with equal sides of $2,5 \times 10^9$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 C P Sasso , G Mana , S Mottini

The aim of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to detect gravitational waves through a phase modulation in long (2.5 Mkm) laser light links between spacecraft. Among other noise sources to be addressed are the phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-14 Jean-Yves Vinet , Nelson Christensen , Nicoleta Dinu-Jaeger , Michel Lintz , Nary Man , Mikhaël Pichot

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is a foreseen space-based gravitational wave detector, which aims to detect 10^20 strains in the frequency range from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. It is a triangular constellation of three spacecraft, with equal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 C P Sasso , G Mana , S Mottini

Since the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the observation of gravitational waves, it is fair to say that the epoch of gravitational wave astronomy (GWs) has begun. However, a number of interesting sources of GWs can only be…