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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…

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We study the angular resolution of the gravitational wave detector LISA and show that numerical relativity can drastically improve the accuracy of position location for coalescing Super Massive Black Hole (SMBH) binaries. For systems with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-15 Stanislav Babak , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Bernard Schutz

The data produced by the future space-based millihertz gravitational-wave detector LISA will require nontrivial pre-processing, which might affect the science results. It is crucial to demonstrate the feasibility of such processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Olaf Hartwig , Marc Lilley , Aurélien Hees , Christian Chapman-Bird , Graham Woan , Peter Wolf

A number of scenarios have been proposed for the origin of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that are found in the centres of most galaxies. Many such scenarios predict a high-redshift population of massive black holes (MBHs), with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Joseph E. Plowman , Ronald W. Hellings , Sachiko Tsuruta

In the mHz gravitational-wave band, galactic ultra-compact binaries (UCBs) are continuous sources emitting at near-constant frequency. The signals from many of these galactic binaries will be sufficiently strong to be detectable by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Tyson B. Littenberg

The random superposition of many weak sources will produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves that may dominate the response of the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave observatory. Unless something can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Neil J. Cornish

A significant fraction of cosmological dark matter can be formed by very dense macroscopic objects, for example primordial black holes. Gravitational waves offer a promising way to probe these kinds of dark-matter candidates, in a parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-23 Florian Kuhnel , Andrew Matas , Glenn D. Starkman , Katherine Freese

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

The dynamical formation channels of gravitational wave (GW) sources typically involve a stage when the compact object binary source interacts with the environment, which may excite its eccentricity, yielding efficient GW emission. For the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Erez Michaely

The space-based laser interferometers, LISA, Taiji and TianQin, are targeting to observe milliHz gravitational waves (GWs) in the 2030s. The joint observations from multiple space-based detectors yield significant advantages. In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Bin Hu , Chang Liu , Youjun Lu , Wei-Tou Ni , Wen-Hong Ruan , Naoki Seto , Gang Wang , Yue-Liang Wu

Gravitational waves (GWs) from tens of millions of compact binaries in our Milky Way enter the milli-Hertz band of space-based detection. The majority of them cannot be resolved individually, resulting in a foreground confusion noise for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Chang Liu , Wen-Hong Ruan , Zong-Kuan Guo

Within its observational band the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA, will simultaneously observe orbital modulated waveforms from Galactic white dwarf binaries, a binary black hole produced gravitational-wave background, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Guillaume Boileau , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen , Neil J. Cornish , Renate Meyer

Following the selection of The Gravitational Universe by ESA, and the successful flight of LISA Pathfinder, the LISA Consortium now proposes a 4 year mission in response to ESA's call for missions for L3. The observatory will be based on…

Now that LIGO has revealed the existence of a large number of binary black holes, identifying their origin becomes an important challenge. They might originate in more isolated regions of the galaxy or alternatively they might reside in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-01 Lisa Randall , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

In the frequency band of Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), extensive research has been conducted on the impact of foreground confusion noise generated by galactic binaries within the Milky Way galaxy. Additionally, the recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Fan Huang , Yan-Chen Bi , Zhoujian Cao , Qing-Guo Huang

Gravitational radiation from the galactic population of white dwarf binaries is expected to produce a background signal in the LISA frequency band. At frequencies below 1 mHz, this signal is expected to be confusion-limited and has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Benacquista , J. DeGoes , D. Lunder

Detection and study of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources is a major goal of current astrophysics. Ground-based laser-interferometer systems such as LIGO and VIRGO are sensitive to gravitational waves with frequencies of order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Manchester

We present our analysis of a set of populations of massive black hole (MBH) binaries generated in the recent semi-analytic model of galaxy evolution (SHARK). We focus on studying gravitational wave (GW) emission produced during MBH mergers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Małgorzata Curyło , Tomasz Bulik

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

The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission will observe in the low frequency band from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. In this regime, we expect the galactic binaries to be the dominant (by number) sources of gravitational waves signal.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Adrien Bourgoin , Etienne Savalle , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Stéphane Mathis , Marie-Christine Angonin , Antoine Strugarek