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Proper tuning of the orbital characteristics of the three spacecrafts that constitute the usual triangular configuration of the space-borne gravitational-wave detector LISA, could minimize the breathing mode of its arm-lengths. Since the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-15 Ioannis Deligiannis , Theocharis A. Apostolatos

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable direct observations of low-frequency gravitational waves, offering unprecedented insight into astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. LISA's heterodyne interferometric measurement…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-26 Gerhard Heinzel , Javier Álvarez-Vizoso , Miguel Dovale-Álvarez

The space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to observe the gravitational-wave signals from systems comprised of a massive black hole and a stellar-mass compact object. These systems are known as extreme-mass-ratio…

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

The future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, which has successfully passed Mission Formulation phase, is in planning to be launched in 2030s. One of the ubiquitous LISA sources are the white-dwarf binaries (WDB) of which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Sweta Shah , Valeriya Korol , Thomas Kupfer

LISA is an array of three spacecraft in an approximately equilateral triangle configuration which will be used as a low-frequency gravitational wave detector. We present here new generalizations of the Michelson- and Sagnac-type time-delay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel A. Shaddock , Massimo Tinto , Frank B. Estabrook , J. W. Armstrong

LISA-Pathfinder is an ESA space mission flown between 2015 and 2017 to demonstrate a technological maturity sufficient for building a gravitational waves telescope in space, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). A pair of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-21 Carlo Zanoni , Daniele Bortoluzzi

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

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

Present and future space missions rely on systems of increasingly demanding performance for being successful. Drag-free technology is one of the technologies that is fundamental for LISA-Pathfinder, an ESA mission whose launch is planned…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-02 Carlo Zanoni

We present a general survey of heliocentric LISA orbits, hoping it might help in the exercise of rescoping the mission. We try to semi-analytically optimize the orbital parameters in order to minimize the disturbances coming from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Fabrizio De Marchi , Giuseppe Pucacco , Massimo Bassan

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Krolak , Gijs Nelemans

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

LISA is a joint space mission of the ESA and NASA for detecting low frequency gravitational radiation in the band $10^{-5} - 1$ Hz. In order to attain the requisite sensitivity for LISA, the laser frequency noise must be suppressed below…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 S. V. Dhurandhar

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and their implications for early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Pierre Auclair , David Bacon , Tessa Baker , Tiago Barreiro , Nicola Bartolo , Enis Belgacem , Nicola Bellomo , Ido Ben-Dayan , Daniele Bertacca , Marc Besancon , Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Diego Blas , Guillaume Boileau , Gianluca Calcagni , Robert Caldwell , Chiara Caprini , Carmelita Carbone , Chia-Feng Chang , Hsin-Yu Chen , Nelson Christensen , Sebastien Clesse , Denis Comelli , Giuseppe Congedo , Carlo Contaldi , Marco Crisostomi , Djuna Croon , Yanou Cui , Giulia Cusin , Daniel Cutting , Charles Dalang , Valerio De Luca , Walter Del Pozzo , Vincent Desjacques , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Glauber C. Dorsch , Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Matteo Fasiello , Daniel G. Figueroa , Raphael Flauger , Gabriele Franciolini , Noemi Frusciante , Jacopo Fumagalli , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Oliver Gould , Daniel Holz , Laura Iacconi , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Alexander C. Jenkins , Ryusuke Jinno , Cristian Joana , Nikolaos Karnesis , Thomas Konstandin , Kazuya Koyama , Jonathan Kozaczuk , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Danny Laghi , Marek Lewicki , Lucas Lombriser , Eric Madge , Michele Maggiore , Ameek Malhotra , Michele Mancarella , Vuk Mandic , Alberto Mangiagli , Sabino Matarrese , Anupam Mazumdar , Suvodip Mukherjee , Ilia Musco , Germano Nardini , Jose Miguel No , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Marco Peloso , Mauro Pieroni , Luigi Pilo , Alvise Raccanelli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Arianna I. Renzini , Angelo Ricciardone , Antonio Riotto , Joseph D. Romano , Rocco Rollo , Alberto Roper Pol , Ester Ruiz Morales , Mairi Sakellariadou , Ippocratis D. Saltas , Marco Scalisi , Kai Schmitz , Pedro Schwaller , Olga Sergijenko , Geraldine Servant , Peera Simakachorn , Lorenzo Sorbo , Lara Sousa , Lorenzo Speri , Danièle A. Steer , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Jesus Torrado , Caner Unal , Vincent Vennin , Daniele Vernieri , Filippo Vernizzi , Marta Volonteri , Jeremy M. Wachter , David Wands , Lukas T. Witkowski , Miguel Zumalacárregui , James Annis , Fëanor Reuben Ares , Pedro P. Avelino , Anastasios Avgoustidis , Enrico Barausse , Alexander Bonilla , Camille Bonvin , Pasquale Bosso , Matteo Calabrese , Mesut Çalışkan , Jose A. R. Cembranos , Mikael Chala , David Chernoff , Katy Clough , Alexander Criswell , Saurya Das , Antonio da Silva , Pratika Dayal , Valerie Domcke , Ruth Durrer , Richard Easther , Stephanie Escoffier , Sandrine Ferrans , Chris Fryer , Jonathan Gair , Chris Gordon , Martin Hendry , Mark Hindmarsh , Deanna C. Hooper , Eric Kajfasz , Joachim Kopp , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Utkarsh Kumar , Martin Kunz , Macarena Lagos , Marc Lilley , Joanes Lizarraga , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Azadeh Maleknejad , C. J. A. P. Martins , P. Daniel Meerburg , Renate Meyer , José Pedro Mimoso , Savvas Nesseris , Nelson Nunes , Vasilis Oikonomou , Giorgio Orlando , Ogan Özsoy , Fabio Pacucci , Antonella Palmese , Antoine Petiteau , Lucas Pinol , Simon Portegies Zwart , Geraint Pratten , Tomislav Prokopec , John Quenby , Saeed Rastgoo , Diederik Roest , Kari Rummukainen , Carlo Schimd , Aurelia Secroun , Carlos F. Sopuerta , Ismael Tereno , Andrew Tolley , Jon Urrestilla , Elias C. Vagenas , Jorinde van de Vis , Rien van de Weygaert , Barry Wardell , David J. Weir , Graham White , Bogumila Świeżewska , Valery I. Zhdanov

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is scheduled to launch in the mid 2030s, and is expected to observe gravitational-wave candidates from massive black-hole binary mergers, extreme mass-ratio inspirals, and more. Accurately…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-21 Charlie Hoy , Laura K. Nuttall

I review the scientific potential of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a space-borne gravitational wave (GW) observatory to be launched in the early 30s'. Thanks to its sensitivity in the milli-Hz frequency range, LISA will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Alberto Sesana

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open three decades of gravitational wave (GW) spectrum between 0.1 and 100 mHz, the mHz band. This band is expected to be the richest part of the GW spectrum, in types of sources, numbers…

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Królak , Gijs Nelemans

LISA is the proposed ESA-NASA gravitational wave detector in the 0.1 mHz - 0.1 Hz band. LISA Pathfinder is the down-scaled version of a single LISA arm. The arm -- named Doppler link -- can be treated as a differential accelerometer,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-20 Giuseppe Congedo