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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

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

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

Upcoming space-based gravitational-wave detectors will be sensitive to millions and resolve tens of thousands of stellar-mass binary systems at mHz frequencies. The vast majority of these will be double white dwarfs in our Galaxy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 Riccardo Buscicchio , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Francesco Di Renzo , Christopher J. Moore , Davide Gerosa , Alessandro Carzaniga

Gravitational waves from the inspiral and coalescence of supermassive black-hole (SMBH) binaries with masses ~10^6 Msun are likely to be among the strongest sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We describe a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Duncan A. Brown , Jeff Crowder , Curt Cutler , Ilya Mandel , Michele Vallisneri

Upcoming space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will be sensitive to extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs and IMRIs). These binaries are comprised of a supermassive…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect thousands of individually resolved gravitational wave sources, overlapping in time and frequency, on top of unresolved astrophysical and/or primordial backgrounds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Rahul Srinivasan , Enrico Barausse , Natalia Korsakova , Roberto Trotta

Binary black holes are one of the important sources for the TianQin gravitational wave project. Our research has revealed that, for TianQin, the signal-to-noise ratio of inspiral binary black holes can be computed analytically. This finding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-04 Hong-Yu Chen , Han Wang , En-Kun Li , Yi-Ming Hu

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will feature a prominent anisotropic astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave signal, arising from the tens of millions of unresolved mHz white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way: the Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Alexander W. Criswell , Steven Rieck , Vuk Mandic

LISA is the upcoming space-based Gravitational Wave telescope. LISA Pathfinder, to be launched in the coming years, will prove and verify the detection principle of the fundamental Doppler link of LISA on a flight hardware identical in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-25 G. Congedo , L. Ferraioli , M. Hueller , F. De Marchi , S. Vitale , M. Armano , M. Hewitson , M. Nofrarias

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a spaceborne gravitational wave (GW) detector set to launch in 2035, will observe several stochastic GW backgrounds in the mHz frequency band. At least one of these signals -- arising from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Malachy Bloom , Alexander Criswell , Vuk Mandic

The range to which the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) can observe astrophysical systems varies over time, limited by noise in the instruments and their environments. Identifying and removing the sources of noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-25 Marissa Walker , Alfonso F. Agnew , Jeffrey Bidler , Andrew Lundgren , Alexandra Macedo , Duncan Macleod , T. J. Massinger , Oliver Patane , Joshua R. Smith

Context. Galactic binaries account for the loudest combined continuous gravitational wave signal in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) band, which spans a frequency range of 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. Aims. A superposition of low frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Kristen Lackeos , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish , James I. Thorpe

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe mHz gravitational waves from a wide variety of astrophysical sources. Of these, some will be characterizable as individual deterministic signals; the remainder will overlap to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Alexander W. Criswell , Sharan Banagiri , Jessica Lawrence , Levi Schult , Steven Rieck , Stephen R. Taylor , Vuk Mandic

We evaluate the cosmological coalescence and detection rates for massive black hole (MBH) binaries targeted by the gravitational wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Our calculation starts with a population of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Kunyang Li , Tamara Bogdanović , David R. Ballantyne , Matteo Bonetti

The detection of galactic binaries as sources of gravitational waves promises an unprecedented wealth of information about these systems, but also raises several challenges in signal processing. In particular the large number of expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 A. Blelly , J. Bobin , H. Moutarde

Space-based gravitational wave detectors based on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) design operate by synthesizing one or more interferometers from fringe velocity measurements generated by changes in the light travel time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 Karan P. Jani , Lee Samuel Finn , Matthew J. Benacquista

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), set for launch in the mid-2030s, will enhance our capability to probe the universe through gravitational waves (GWs) emitted from binary black holes (BBHs) across a broad range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-08 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

The proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is tasked with the detection and characterization of gravitational waves from various sources in the universe. This endeavor is challenged by transient displacement and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Niklas Houba , Luigi Ferraioli , Domenico Giardini

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