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LISA is a proposed space-based laser interferometer detecting gravitational waves by measuring distances between free-floating test masses housed in three satellites in a triangular constellation with laser links in-between. Each satellite…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is being designed to detect and study in detail gravitational waves from sources throughout the Universe such as massive black hole binaries. The conceptual formulation of the LISA space-borne…

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The ongoing development of the space-based laser interferometer missions is aiming at unprecedented gravitational wave detections in the millihertz frequency band. The spaceborne nature of the experimental setups leads to a degree of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Pan-Pan Wang , Yu-Jie Tan , Wei-Liang Qian , Cheng-Gang Shao

Tilt-to-length (TTL) noise, caused by angular jitter and misalignment, is a major noise source in the inter-satellite interferometer for gravitational wave detection. However, the required level of axis alignment of the optical components…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-11 Peng Qiu , Xiang Lin , Yurong Liang , Hao Yan , Haixing Miao , Zebing Zhou

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational wave signals from ~100 extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. The long duration and large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R Gair , Ilya Mandel , Linqing Wen

TianQin is a proposed space-based mission for gravitational wave detection, employing a constellation of three drag-free satellites in high Earth orbits to form a laser interferometric observatory. A critical technical challenge is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yuzhou Fang , Dexuan Zhang , Dezhi Wang , Xuefeng Zhang , Huizong Duan , Hongyin Li , Junxiang Lian , Guoying Zhao

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…

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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

We present detailed numerical simulations of a laser phase stabilization scheme for LISA, where both lasers emitting along one arm are locked to each other. Including the standard secondary noises and spacecraft motions that approximately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre

Time-delay interferometry is put forward to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of space-borne gravitational wave detectors by canceling the large laser phase noise with different combinations of measured data. Based on the Michelson data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao-Yu Lu , Yu-Jie Tan , Cheng-Gang Shao

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is a foreseen gravitational wave detector, which aims to detect $10^{-20}$ strains in the frequency range from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. It is a triangular constellation, with equal sides of $2,5 \times 10^9$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 C P Sasso , G Mana , S Mottini

ASTROD-GW (ASTROD [Astrodynamical Space Test of Relativity using Optical Devices] optimized for Gravitation Wave detection) is an optimization of ASTROD to focus on the goal of detection of gravitation waves. The detection sensitivity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-02 G. Wang , W. -T. Ni

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is due to launch in the mid-2030s. A key challenge for LISA data analysis is efficient Bayesian inference with parametrised gravitational-wave models, particularly for early inspirals of low-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Jethro Linley

The current planned space-based gravitational-wave detectors require a bidirectional optical connection, referred to as Backlink, between two adjacent optical benches to provide a mutual phase reference for the local interferometric…

When ambient seismic waves pass near an interferometric gravitational-wave detector, they induce density perturbations in the earth which produce fluctuating gravitational forces on the interferometer's test masses. These forces mimic a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Scott A. Hughes , Kip S. Thorne

LISA is a space-based mHz gravitational-wave observatory, with a planned launch in 2034. It is expected to be the first detector of its kind, and will present unique challenges in instrumentation and data analysis. An accurate preflight…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-18 Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Olaf Hartwig

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are planning the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission in order to detect GW. The need of accurate testing of free-fall and knowledge…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-10-14 Michele Armano

The observation of massive black hole binary systems is one of the main science objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The instrument's design requirements have recently been revised: they set a requirement at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Geraint Pratten , Antoine Klein , Christopher J. Moore , Hannah Middleton , Nathan Steinle , Patricia Schmidt , Alberto Vecchio

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is being developed by ESA with NASA participation. As it has recently passed the Mission Adoption milestone, models of the instruments and noise performance are becoming more detailed,…