English
Related papers

Related papers: Data Analysis Methods for Testing Alternative Theo…

200 papers

In this paper we quantify the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to test the presence of non-tensorial polarizations as well as modifications to the tensor ones in gravitational waves emitted from massive black hole…

The magnetic diagnostics subsystem of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) on board the LISA PathFinder (LPF) spacecraft includes a set of four tri-axial fluxgate magnetometers, intended to measure with high precision the magnetic field at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 M Diaz-Aguilo , E Garcia-Berro , A Lobo

The space mission LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), scheduled for launch in 2035, aims to detect gravitational wave (GW) signals in the milli-Hz band. In the context of ESA Voyage 2050 Call for new mission concepts, other frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Alice Perego , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana , Silvia Toonen , Valeriya Korol

The low frequency sensitivity of space-borne gravitational wave observatories will depend critically on the geodetic purity of the trajectories of orbiting test masses. Fluctuations in the temperature difference across the enclosure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Carbone , A. Cavalleri , G. Ciani , R. Dolesi , M. Hueller , D. Tombolato , S. Vitale , W. J. Weber

We calculate the bounds which could be placed on scalar-tensor theories of gravity of the Jordan, Fierz, Brans and Dicke type by measurements of gravitational waveforms from neutron stars (NS) spiralling into massive black holes (MBH) using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul D. Scharre , Clifford M. Will

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 Pathfinder is a science and technology demonstrator of the European Space Agency within the framework of its LISA mission, the latter aiming to be the first space-borne gravitational wave observatory. The payload of LISA Pathfinder is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Marc Diaz-Aguiló , Enrique García-Berro , Alberto Lobo

Future space-based gravitational-wave detectors will detect gravitational waves with high sensitivity in the millihertz frequency band, which provides more opportunities to test theories of gravity than ground-based ones. The study of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 Cai-Ying Shao , Yu Hu , Cheng-Gang Shao

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

Extensions of general relativity often predict modifications to gravitational waveform morphology that depend functionally on source parameters, such as the masses and spins of coalescing black holes. However, current analyses of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-21 Costantino Pacilio , Riccardo Buscicchio

We use observational data from Supernovae (SNIa) Pantheon sample, from direct Hubble constant measurements with cosmic chronometers (CC), from the Cosmic Microwave Background shift parameter $\text{CMB}_{\text{shift}}$, and from redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Two polarization modes of gravitational wave are derived from the general relativity which are plus and cross modes. However, the alternative theories of gravity can yield the gravitational wave with up to six polarizations. Searching for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Gang Wang , Wen-Biao Han

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, is designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It is expected that tens of millions of Galactic binaries will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cedric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

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

We propose a method for separating and detecting the non-tensor modes of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) using networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors. We consider four distinct data-reconstruction schemes for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Bo Mu , Zong-Kuan Guo

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission will use advanced technologies to achieve its science goals: the direct detection of gravitational waves, the observation of signals from compact (small and dense) stars as they spiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-17 Wytler Cordeiro dos Santos

The science operations of the LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the feasibility of sub-femto-g free-fall of macroscopic test masses necessary to build a LISA-like gravitational wave observatory in space. While the main focus of…

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a joint mission of ESA and NASA which aims to be the first space-borne gravita- tional wave observatory. Due to the high complexity and technological challenges that LISA will face, ESA decided…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-14 Marc Diaz-Aguiló , Ignacio Mateos , Juan Ramos-Castro , Alberto Lobo , Enrique García-Berro

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be the first low-frequency gravitational-wave observatory orbiting the Sun at 1 AU. The LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission, aiming at testing of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 A. Cesarini , C. Grimani , S. Benella , M. Fabi , F. Sabbatini , M. Villani , D. Telloni

This is a whitepaper submitted to the 2010 Astronomy Decadal Review process, addressing the potential tests of gravity theory that could be made by observations of gravitational waves in the milliHertz frequency band by the proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-03 Bernard F. Schutz , Joan Centrella , Curt Cutler , Scott A. Hughes