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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), an ESA L-class mission, is designed to detect gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band, with operations expected to begin in the next decade. LISA will enable studies of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-31 Niklas Houba , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Michele Vallisneri

In this paper we discuss two main problems associated with the analysis of the data from LISA Pathfinder (LPF): i) Excess noise detection and ii) Noise parameter identification. The mission is focused on the low frequency region ([0.1; 10]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Luigi Ferraioli , Martin Hewitson , Giuseppe Congedo , Miquel Nofrarias , Mauro Hueller , Michele Armano , Stefano Vitale

ASTROD is a relativity mission concept encompassing multi-purposes. One of its main purposes is to detect gravitational waves sensitive to low-frequency band similar to LISA, but shifted to lower frequencies. In this aspect, ASTROD would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio Pulido Paton , Wei-Tou Ni

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) is designed to detect gravitational wave signals from astrophysical sources, including those from coalescing binary systems of compact objects such as black holes. Colliding galaxies have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Joey Shapiro Key , Neil J. Cornish

First order phase transitions in the early universe could produce a gravitational-wave background that might be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Such an observation would provide evidence for physics beyond the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Guillaume Boileau , Nelson Christensen , Chloe Gowling , Mark Hindmarsh , Renate Meyer

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

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

A drift mode accelerometer is a precision device that overcomes the much of the acceleration noise and readout dynamic range limitations of traditional electrostatic accelerometers. It has the potential of achieving acceleration noise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-28 John W. Conklin

Gravitational wave memory is theorized to arise from the integrated history of gravitational wave emission, and manifests as a spacetime deformation in the wake of a propagating gravitational wave. We explore the detectability of the memory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Kristina Islo , Joseph Simon , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Xavier Siemens

Doppler tracking of interplanetary spacecraft provides the only method presently available for broad-band searches of low frequency gravitational waves. The instruments have a peak sensitivity around the reciprocal of the round-trip…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Bruno Bertotti , Alberto Vecchio , Luciano Iess

Future drag-free missions for space-based experiments in gravitational physics require a Gravitational Reference Sensor with extremely demanding sensing and disturbance reduction requirements. A configuration with two cubical sensors is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-06 D. Gerardi , G. Allen , J. W. Conklin , K-X. Sun , D. DeBra , S. Buchman , P. Gath , W. Fichter , R. L. Byer , U. Johann

We anticipate that the data acquired by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be dominated by the gravitational wave signals from several astrophysical populations. The analysis of these data is a new challenge and is the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Senwen Deng , Stanislav Babak , Maude Le Jeune , Sylvain Marsat , Éric Plagnol , Andrea Sartirana

LISA is an upcoming ESA mission that will detect gravitational waves in space by interferometrically measuring the separation between free-falling test masses at picometer precision. To reach the desired performance, LISA will employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-23 Lennart Wissel , Olaf Hartwig , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Martin Staab , Ewan D. Fitzsimons , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a gravitational wave detector in space. It relies on a post-processing technique named time-delay interferometry (TDI) to suppress the overwhelming laser frequency noise by several orders of…

We present the first fully relativistic study of gravitational radiation from bodies in circular equatorial orbits around the massive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sgr A* and we assess the detectability of various kinds of objects by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Eric Gourgoulhon , Alexandre Le Tiec , Frederic H. Vincent , Niels Warburton

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the early 2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in the milli-Hertz band. In contrast to the present ground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Nikolaos Karnesis , Stanislav Babak , Mauro Pieroni , Neil Cornish , Tyson Littenberg

Gravitational waves modulate the apparent frequencies of other periodic signals. Low-frequency gravitational waves could therefore be detected by observing frequency modulations in signals from higher-frequency sources, e.g., those from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-09 Jakob Stegmann , Sander M. Vermeulen

A scalar ultralight dark matter (ULDM) candidate would induce oscillatory motion of freely falling test masses via its coupling to Standard Model fields. Such oscillations would create an observable Doppler shift of light exchanged between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Jordan Gué , Peter Wolf , Aurélien Hees