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LISA should detect gravitational waves from tens to hundreds of systems containing black holes with mass in the range from 10 thousand to 10 million solar masses. Black holes in this mass range are not well constrained by current…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Jonathan R Gair , Alberto Sesana , Emanuele Berti , Marta Volonteri

The LISA Pathfinder mission will demonstrate the technology of drag-free test masses for use as inertial references in future space-based gravitational wave detectors. To accomplish this, the Pathfinder spacecraft will perform drag-free…

In a space based gravitational wave antenna like LISA, involving long light paths linking distant emitter/receiver spacecrafts, signal detection amounts to measuring the light-distance variationsthrough a phase change at the receiver. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-19 Jean-Yves Vinet , Nelson Christensen , Nicoleta Dinu-Jaeger , Michel Lintz , Nary Man , Mikhaël Pichot

We estimate the accuracy in the measurement of the tidal Love number of a supermassive compact object through the detection of an extreme mass ratio inspiral~(EMRI) by the future LISA mission. A nonzero Love number would be a smoking gun…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

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) 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

Standard sirens (SS) are the gravitational wave analog of the astronomical standard candles, and can provide powerful information about the dynamics of the Universe up to very high $z$ values. In this work, we generate three mock SS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Alireza Allahyari , Rafael C. Nunes , David F. Mota

We propose the use of modulated spectra of astronomical sources due to gravitational lensing to probe Ellis wormholes. The modulation factor due to gravitational lensing by the Ellis wormhole is calculated. Within the geometrical optics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-24 Chul-Moon Yoo , Tomohiro Harada , Naoki Tsukamoto

LISA can detect higher harmonics of the ringdown gravitational-wave signal from massive black-hole binary mergers with large signal-to-noise ratio. The most massive black-hole binaries are more likely to have electromagnetic counterparts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso

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 joint NASA-ESA mission LISA relies crucially on the stability of the three spacecraft constellation. All three spacecraft are on heliocentric and weakly eccentric orbits forming a stable triangle. It has been shown that for certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Rajesh Nayak , S. Koshti , S. V. Dhurandhar , J-Y. Vinet

Employing the Fisher information matrix analysis, we estimate parameter errors of TianQin and LISA for monochromatic gravitational waves. With the long-wavelength approximation we derive analytical formulas for the parameter estimation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang , Chunyu Zhang

We consider a nearly free falling Earth satellite where atomic wave interferometers are tied to a telescope pointing towards a faraway star. They measure the acceleration and the rotation relatively to the local inertial frame. We calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M-C. Angonin-Willaime , X. Ovido , Ph. Tourrenc

In this paper we investigate the opportunities offered by the new Earth gravity models from the dedicated CHAMP and, especially, GRACE missions to the project of measuring the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect with a new Earth's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo Iorio

This study investigates the influence of seismic activities on the optical synchronization system of the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser. We analyze the controller I/O data of phase-locked-loops in length-stabilized links, focusing on…

Oscillations in the frequency profile of the stochastic gravitational wave background are a characteristic prediction of small-scale features during inflation. In this paper we present a first investigation of the detection prospects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Jacopo Fumagalli , Mauro Pieroni , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Lukas T. Witkowski

One source of noise for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be time-varying changes of the space environment in the form of solar wind particles and photon pressure from fluctuating solar irradiance. The approximate magnitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 Barrett M. Frank , Brandon Piotrzkowski , Brett Bolen , Marco Cavaglià , Shane L. Larson

This paper presents a novel method for laser frequency stabilisation in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission by locking a laser to two stable length references - the arms of the interferometer and an on-board optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil , Andrew J. H. Sutton , Robert E. Spero , Daniel A. Shaddock , Kirk McKenzie

Gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are a key observational target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The waveforms may be affected by the astrophysical environment surrounding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Soumodeep Mitra , Nicholas Speeney , Sumanta Chakraborty , Emanuele Berti

This letter presents an assessment of quantum gravity effects on extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) for the rotating quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder (qOS) black hole. Employing the adiabatic evolution, we compute the gravitational wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Dan Zhang , Shulan Li , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu