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In this article we give a brief review of the fundamental physics that can be done with the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. This includes detection of gravitational wave bursts coming from cosmic strings, measuring a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-25 Stanislav Babak , Jonathan R. Gair , Antoine Petiteau , Alberto Sesana

The dispersion in the speed of gravitational waves is a novel way to test the general theory of relativity and understand whether the origin of cosmic acceleration is due to any alternative theory of gravity. Several alternative theories of…

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Unresolved coalescing binary neutron stars in the Galaxy and beyond produce a stochastic gravitational wave background within the LISA frequency band, which can be potentially dangerous for possible detection of fundamentally more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. B. Ignatiev , A. G. Kuranov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

The formation of merging binary black holes can occur through multiple astrophysical channels such as, e.g., isolated binary evolution and dynamical formation or, alternatively, have a primordial origin. Increasingly large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Simone S. Bavera , Gabriele Franciolini , Giulia Cusin , Antonio Riotto , Michael Zevin , Tassos Fragos

We discuss the usability of the gravitational wave detector LISA for studying the orientational distribution of compact white dwarf binaries in the Galactic bulge. We pay special attention to measuring the dipole pattern of the distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

Space-borne detectors, including TianQin and Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA), are tasked with simultaneously observing the Galactic foreground, astrophysical and cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs). For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-18 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Zhi-Yuan Li , En-Kun Li , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

We present a perturbative reconstruction method to make a skymap of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In the presence of anisotropies in GWBs, the cross-correlated signals of observed GWBs are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Atsushi Taruya , Hideaki Kudoh

This paper investigates the impact of a lack of knowledge of the instrumental noise on the characterisation of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We focus on constraints on modelled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Martina Muratore , Jonathan Gair , Lorenzo Speri

Captures of compact objects (COs) by massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei will be an important source for LISA, the space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. However, a large fraction of captures will not be individually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Leor Barack , Curt Cutler

At third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave detector networks, compact binaries coalescences produce a ``confusion noise'' due to unresolved sources and to the error in the reconstruction of resolved sources, that can degrade the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-07 Enis Belgacem , Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella , Niccolò Muttoni

Variations in the instrumental noise of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) over time are expected as a result of e.g. scheduled satellite operations or unscheduled glitches. We demonstrate that these fluctuations can be leveraged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-07 James Alvey , Uddipta Bhardwaj , Valerie Domcke , Mauro Pieroni , Christoph Weniger

Gravitational waves astronomy has opened a new opportunity to study the Universe. Full exploitation of this window can especially be provided by combining data coming from gravitational waves experiments with luminous tracers of the Large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Giulio Scelfo , Lumen Boco , Andrea Lapi , Matteo Viel

One of the main sources of gravitational waves for the LISA space-borne interferometer are galactic binary systems. The waveforms for these sources are represented by eight parameters, of which four are extrinsic, and four are intrinsic to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Neil J. Cornish , Edward K. Porter

The field of gravitational wave (GW) detection is progressing rapidly, with several next-generation observatories on the horizon, including LISA. GW data is challenging to analyze due to highly variable signals shaped by source properties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Maria-Catalina Isfan , Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete , Ana Caramete , Daniel Tonoiu , Alexandru Nicolin-Żaczek

We present a set of tools to assess the capabilities of LISA to detect and reconstruct the spectral shape and amplitude of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We first provide the LISA power-law sensitivity curve and binned…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Chiara Caprini , Daniel G. Figueroa , Raphael Flauger , Germano Nardini , Marco Peloso , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band, detecting signals from a vast number of astrophysical sources embedded in instrumental noise. Extracting individual signals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Niklas Houba

Gravitational wave (GW) radiations from numerous cosmic stellar-compact-binaries form a stochastic GW background (GWB), which is expected to be detected by ground and space GW detectors in future. Theoretical predictions of this GWB were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuetong Zhao , Youjun Lu

Although cosmic string scenario for galaxy formation is disfavored by CMB data, it is of great interest in the generation of cosmic gravitational-wave background. This research aims to develop an algorithm to extract cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-20 Alf Tang , Timothy J. Sumner

We present a method to search for gravitational waves from coalescing supermassive binary black holes in LISA data. The search utilizes the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic to maximize over, and determine the values of, the extrinsic parameters of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. W. Harry , S. Fairhurst , B. S. Sathyaprakash
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