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Noise measurements have been carried out in the LISA bandwidth (0.1 mHz to 100 mHz) to characterize an all-optical atomic magnetometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation. This was done in order to assess if the technology can be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-19 I. Mateos , B. Patton , E. Zhivun , D. Budker , D. Wurm , J. Ramos-Castro

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational radiation in the milliHertz band by measuring picometer-level fluctuations in the distance between drag-free proof masses over baselines of approximately five million…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 James Ira Thorpe

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

A first order phase transition at the electroweak scale would lead to the production of gravitational waves that may be observable at upcoming space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Chloe Gowling , Mark Hindmarsh

High precision metrology systems based on heterodyne interferometry can measure position and attitude of objects to accuracies of picometer and nanorad, respectively. A frequently found feature of the general system design is the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-22 Gerald Hechenblaikner

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a proposed space mission for the detection of gravitational waves. It consists of three drag-free satellites flying in a triangular constellation. A gravitational reference sensor is used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-08 Andreas Zoellner , Eric Hultgren , Ke-Xun Sun

In recent years, nanosatellites have revolutionized the space sector due to their significant economic and time-saving advantages. As a result, they have fostered the testing of advanced instruments intended for larger space science…

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 investigate the idea that current cosmic acceleration could be the consequence of gravitational leakage into extra dimensions on cosmological scales rather than the result of a non-zero cosmological constant, and consider the ability of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Maxence Corman , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , M. A. Hendry

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) aims to observe gravitational waves in the mHz regime over its 10-year mission time. LISA will operate laser interferometers between three spacecrafts. Each spacecraft will utilize independent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-03 Kohei Yamamoto , Christoph Vorndamme , Olaf Hartwig , Martin Staab , Thomas S. Schwarze , Gerhard Heinzel

Galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles charge gold-platinum, free-falling test masses (TMs) on board interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves in space. The charging process induces spurious forces on the test…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Catia Grimani , Andrea Cesarini , Michele Fabi , Mattia Villani

This paper summarises the potential of the LISA mission to constrain the expansion history of the universe using massive black hole binary mergers as gravitational wave standard sirens. After briefly reviewing the concept of standard siren,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Nicola Tamanini

The electrostatic charging of the LISA test masses due to exposure of the spacecraft to energetic particles in the space environment has implications in the design and operation of the gravitational inertial sensors and can affect the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. M. Araujo , P. Wass , D. Shaul , G. Rochester , T. J. Sumner

Extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral observations from future space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA will enable strong-field tests of general relativity with unprecedented precision, but at prohibitive computational cost if existing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Alvin J. K. Chua , Sonke Hee , Will J. Handley , Edward Higson , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael P. Hobson , Anthony N. Lasenby

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect a variety of gravitational-wave events, including mergers of massive black hole binaries, stellar-mass black hole inspirals, and extreme mass-ratio inspirals. LISA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Aasim Jan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Lange

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves in the 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz frequency band which will enable the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Monica Colpi , Karsten Danzmann , Martin Hewitson , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Philippe Jetzer , Gijs Nelemans , Antoine Petiteau , David Shoemaker , Carlos Sopuerta , Robin Stebbins , Nial Tanvir , Henry Ward , William Joseph Weber , Ira Thorpe , Anna Daurskikh , Atul Deep , Ignacio Fernández Núñez , César García Marirrodriga , Martin Gehler , Jean-Philippe Halain , Oliver Jennrich , Uwe Lammers , Jonan Larrañaga , Maike Lieser , Nora Lützgendorf , Waldemar Martens , Linda Mondin , Ana Piris Niño , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Manuel Arca Sedda , Pierre Auclair , Stanislav Babak , Quentin Baghi , Vishal Baibhav , Tessa Baker , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Christopher Berry , Emanuele Berti , Guillaume Boileau , Matteo Bonetti , Richard Brito , Riccardo Buscicchio , Gianluca Calcagni , Pedro R. Capelo , Chiara Caprini , Andrea Caputo , Eleonora Castelli , Hsin-Yu Chen , Xian Chen , Alvin Chua , Gareth Davies , Andrea Derdzinski , Valerie Fiona Domcke , Daniela Doneva , Irna Dvorkin , Jose María Ezquiaga , Jonathan Gair , Zoltan Haiman , Ian Harry , Olaf Hartwig , Aurelien Hees , Anna Heffernan , Sascha Husa , David Izquierdo , Nikolaos Karnesis , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Natalia Korsakova , Thomas Kupfer , Danny Laghi , Astrid Lamberts , Shane Larson , Maude Le Jeune , Marek Lewicki , Tyson Littenberg , Eric Madge , Alberto Mangiagli , Sylvain Marsat , Ivan Martin Vilchez , Andrea Maselli , Josh Mathews , Maarten van de Meent , Martina Muratore , Germano Nardini , Paolo Pani , Marco Peloso , Mauro Pieroni , Adam Pound , Hippolyte Quelquejay-Leclere , Angelo Ricciardone , Elena Maria Rossi , Andrea Sartirana , Etienne Savalle , Laura Sberna , Alberto Sesana , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Slutsky , Thomas Sotiriou , Lorenzo Speri , Martin Staab , Danièle Steer , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Jesus Torrado , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Alexandre Toubiana , Michele Vallisneri , Alberto Vecchio , Marta Volonteri , Kent Yagi , Lorenz Zwick

We discuss a new torsion pendulum design for ground testing of prototype LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) displacement sensors. This new design is directly sensitive to net forces and therefore provides a more representative test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-09 L. Carbone , A. Cavalleri , R. Dolesi , C. D. Hoyle , M. Hueller , S. Vitale , W. J. Weber

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

LISA is a joint space mission of the NASA and the ESA for detecting low frequency gravitational waves (GW) in the band $10^{-5} - 0.1$ Hz. The proposed mission will use coherent laser beams which will be exchanged between three identical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-12 S. V. Dhurandhar , K. R. Nayak , J-Y. Vinet

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