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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe black hole binaries of stellar origin during their gravitational wave inspiral, months to years before coalescence. Due to the long duration of the signal in the LISA band, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Alberto Mangiagli , Antoine Klein , Alberto Sesana , Enrico Barausse , Monica Colpi

For the LISA mission, Tilt-To-Length (TTL) coupling is expected to be one of the dominant instrumental noise contributions after laser frequency noise is suppressed based, on assumptions on the size of the coupling and angular jitter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , Sarah Paczkowski , Ricardo Waibel

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a future space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector designed to be sensitive to sources radiating in the low frequency regime (0.1 mHz to 1 Hz). LISA's interferometer signals will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Sourath Ghosh , Josep Sanjuan , Guido Mueller

We investigate the response function of LISA and consider the adequacy of its commonly used approximation in the high-frequency range of the observational band. We concentrate on monochromatic binary systems, such as white dwarf binaries.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Vecchio , Elizabeth D. L. Wickham

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 analysis of the noise sources perturbing a test mass (TM) geodesic motion is the main scientific objective of the LISA Technology Package experiment (LTP) on board of the LISA Pathfinder space mission. Information on force noise acting…

We calculate the angular resolution of the planned LISA detector, a space-based laser interferometer for measuring low-frequency gravitational waves from galactic and extragalactic sources. LISA is not a pointed instrument; it is an all-sky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Curt Cutler

The laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) senses gravitational waves by measuring distance fluctuations between three spacecraft (SC). These measurements rely on precise tracking of a beat note phase that is formed on a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-01 Philipp Euringer , Gerald Hechenblaikner , Alexander Sell , Francis Soualle , Walter Fichter

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 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

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

In applications that involve sensor data, a useful measure of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is the ratio of the root-mean-squared (RMS) signal to the RMS sensor noise. The present paper shows that, for numerical differentiation, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Shashank Verma , Mohammad Almuhaihi , Dennis S. Bernstein

A phase-locking configuration for LISA is proposed that provides a significantly simpler mode of operation. The scheme provides one Sagnac signal readout inherently insensitive to laser frequency noise and optical bench motion for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel A. Shaddock

Tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can generate spurious displacement noise that potentially affects the measurement of gravitational wave signals. In each test mass interferometer, the coupling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Paul Edwards , Megha Dave , Alexander Weaver , Mengyuan Zhao , Paul Fulda , Guido Mueller , Gudrun Wanner

Objects sensed by laser interferometers are usually not stable in position or orientation. This angular instability can lead to a coupling of angular tilt to apparent longitudinal displacement -- tilt-to-length coupling (TTL). In LISA this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-24 M Tröbs , S Schuster , M Lieser , M Zwetz , M Chwalla , K Danzmann , G Fernandez Barranco , E D Fitzsimons , O Gerberding , G Heinzel , C J Killow , M Perreur-Lloyd , D I Robertson , T S Schwarze , G Wanner , H Ward

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…

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

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address many key astrophysical questions in a completely novel way. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Pau Amaro Seoane , Jeff Andrews , Manuel Arca Sedda , Abbas Askar , Quentin Baghi , Razvan Balasov , Imre Bartos , Simone S. Bavera , Jillian Bellovary , Christopher P. L. Berry , Emanuele Berti , Stefano Bianchi , Laura Blecha , Stephane Blondin , Tamara Bogdanović , Samuel Boissier , Matteo Bonetti , Silvia Bonoli , Elisa Bortolas , Katelyn Breivik , Pedro R. Capelo , Laurentiu Caramete , Federico Cattorini , Maria Charisi , Sylvain Chaty , Xian Chen , Martyna Chruślińska , Alvin J. K. Chua , Ross Church , Monica Colpi , Daniel D'Orazio , Camilla Danielski , Melvyn B. Davies , Pratika Dayal , Alessandra De Rosa , Andrea Derdzinski , Kyriakos Destounis , Massimo Dotti , Ioana Duţan , Irina Dvorkin , Gaia Fabj , Thierry Foglizzo , Saavik Ford , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Alessia Franchini , Tassos Fragos , Chris Fryer , Massimo Gaspari , Davide Gerosa , Luca Graziani , Paul Groot , Melanie Habouzit , Daryl Haggard , Zoltan Haiman , Wen-Biao Han , Alina Istrate , Peter H. Johansson , Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Tomas Kimpson , Kostas Kokkotas , Albert Kong , Valeriya Korol , Kyle Kremer , Thomas Kupfer , Astrid Lamberts , Shane Larson , Mike Lau , Dongliang Liu , Nicole Lloyd-Ronning , Giuseppe Lodato , Alessandro Lupi , Chung-Pei Ma , Tomas Maccarone , Ilya Mandel , Alberto Mangiagli , Michela Mapelli , Steéphane Mathis , Lucio Mayer , Sean McGee , Berry McKernan , M. Coleman Miller , David F. Mota , Matthew Mumpower , Syeda S Nasim , Gijs Nelemans , Scott Noble , Fabio Pacucci , Francesca Panessa , Vasileio Paschalidis , Hugo Pfister , Delphine Porquet , John Quenby , Angelo Ricarte , Friedrich K. Röpke , John Regan , Stephan Rosswog , Ashley Ruiter , Milton Ruiz , Jessie Runnoe , Raffaella Schneider , Jeremy Schnittman , Amy Secunda , Alberto Sesana , Naoki Seto , Lijing Shao , Stuart Shapiro , Carlos Sopuerta , Nicholas C. Stone , Arthur Suvorov , Nicola Tamanini , Tomas Tamfal , Thomas Tauris , Karel Temmink , John Tomsick , Silvia Toonen , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Martina Toscani , Antonios Tsokaros , Caner Unal , Verónica Vázquez-Aceves , Rosa Valiante , Maurice van Putten , Jan van Roestel , Christian Vignali , Marta Volonteri , Kinwah Wu , Ziri Younsi , Shenghua Yu , Silvia Zane , Lorenz Zwick , Fabio Antonini , Vishal Baibhav , Enrico Barausse , Alexander Bonilla Rivera , Marica Branchesi , Graziella Branduardi-Raymont , Kevin Burdge , Srija Chakraborty , Jorge Cuadra , Kristen Dage , Benjamin Davis , Selma E. de Mink , Roberto Decarli , Daniela Doneva , Stephanie Escoffier , Giacomo Fragione , Poshak Gandhi , Francesco Haardt , Carlos O. Lousto , Samaya Nissanke , Jason Nordhaus , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Simon Portegies Zwart , Adam Pound , Fabian Schussler , Olga Sergijenko , Alessandro Spallicci , Daniele Vernieri , Alejandro Vigna-Gómez

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

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