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In its observation band, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will simultaneously observe stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) signals of different origins; orbitally modulated waveforms from galactic white dwarf…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Guillaume Boileau , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen , Neil J. Cornish , Renate Meyer

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,…

We consider the observation of stellar-mass black holes binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Preliminary results based on Fisher information matrix analyses have suggested that gravitational waves from those sources…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-07 Alexandre Toubiana , Sylvain Marsat , Enrico Barausse , Stanislav Babak , John Baker

The detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves could significantly impact our understanding of the physical processes that shaped the early Universe. The challenge lies in separating the cosmological signal from other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

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

Two homodyne Michelson interferferometers aboard the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft will measure the the positions of two free-floating test masses, as part of the NASA ST7 mission. The interferometer is required to measure the separation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Spero , Andreas Kuhnert

We investigate the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to measure the center of mass acceleration of stellar-origin black hole binaries emitting gravitational waves. Our analysis is based on the idea that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-05 Nicola Tamanini , Antoine Klein , Camille Bonvin , Enrico Barausse , Chiara Caprini

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the low-frequency (0.1-100 mHz) part of the gravitational wave spectrum to direct observation. Of order 3600 galactic close binary white dwarfs will be individually resolvable in its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ronald F. Webbink

We present a mission concept, the Geostationary Antenna for Disturbance-Free Laser Interferometry (GADFLI), for a space-based gravitational-wave interferometer consisting of three satellites in geostationary orbit around the Earth. Compared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-17 Sean T. McWilliams

General relativity predicts that massless waves should scatter from the Riemann curvature of their backgrounds. These scattered waves are sometimes called $\textit{tails}$ and have never been directly observed. Here we calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Daniel A. Kessler , Craig J. Copi , Glenn D. Starkman

We propose a space-based interferometer surveying the gravitational wave (GW) sky in the milli-Hz to $\mu$-Hz frequency range. By the 2040s', the $\mu$-Hz frequency band, bracketed in between the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)…

The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and study gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of gravitational waves holds the promise of testing general relativity in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , B. Abbott

Ultracompact binaries with orbital periods less than a few hours will dominate the gravitational wave signal in the mHz regime. Until recently, 10 systems were expected have a predicted gravitational wave signal strong enough to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 T. Kupfer , V. Korol , S. Shah , G. Nelemans , T. R. Marsh , G. Ramsay , P. J. Groot , D. T. H Steeghs , E. M. Rossi

The evolving Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) will revolutionize our understanding of the formation and evolution of massive black holes along cosmic history by probing massive black hole binaries in the $10^3-10^7$ solar mass…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory. It will measure gravitational wave signals in the frequency regime from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. The success of these measurements will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Marie-Sophie Hartig , Sarah Paczkowski , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel , Gudrun Wanner

We extend and improve earlier estimates of the ability of the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave detector to place upper bounds on the graviton mass, m_g, by comparing the arrival times of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Curt Cutler , William A. Hiscock , Shane L. Larson

We investigate the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to detect a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) produced by cosmic strings, and to subsequently estimate the string tension $G\mu$ in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Guillaume Boileau , Alexander C. Jenkins , Mairi Sakellariadou , Renate Meyer , Nelson Christensen

A plethora of gravitational wave stochastic backgrounds populate the sensitivity window of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. We show that LISA can detect the anisotropy of the background corresponding to the multipole moments of order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. Ungarelli , A. Vecchio

The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detectors have just completed their first science run, following many years of planning, research, and development. LIGO is a member of what will be a worldwide network of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Scott A. Hughes

The ESA/NASA joint LISA (laser interferometer space antenna) mission is designed to detect gravitational waves, which relies crucially on maintaining three-spacecraft constellation as close to an equilateral triangle with a designed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-24 Yaguang Yang