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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

LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly $(0.03 - 0.1) {\rm mHz} \lesssim f \lesssim 0.1 {\rm Hz}$. This is expected to be an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Scott A. Hughes

I present an overview of the Galactic binaries that form the foreground for the ESA/NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The currently known population is discussed, as well as current and near-future large-scale surveys that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-21 G. Nelemans

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves in the 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz frequency band which will enable the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Monica Colpi , Karsten Danzmann , Martin Hewitson , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Philippe Jetzer , Gijs Nelemans , Antoine Petiteau , David Shoemaker , Carlos Sopuerta , Robin Stebbins , Nial Tanvir , Henry Ward , William Joseph Weber , Ira Thorpe , Anna Daurskikh , Atul Deep , Ignacio Fernández Núñez , César García Marirrodriga , Martin Gehler , Jean-Philippe Halain , Oliver Jennrich , Uwe Lammers , Jonan Larrañaga , Maike Lieser , Nora Lützgendorf , Waldemar Martens , Linda Mondin , Ana Piris Niño , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Manuel Arca Sedda , Pierre Auclair , Stanislav Babak , Quentin Baghi , Vishal Baibhav , Tessa Baker , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Christopher Berry , Emanuele Berti , Guillaume Boileau , Matteo Bonetti , Richard Brito , Riccardo Buscicchio , Gianluca Calcagni , Pedro R. Capelo , Chiara Caprini , Andrea Caputo , Eleonora Castelli , Hsin-Yu Chen , Xian Chen , Alvin Chua , Gareth Davies , Andrea Derdzinski , Valerie Fiona Domcke , Daniela Doneva , Irna Dvorkin , Jose María Ezquiaga , Jonathan Gair , Zoltan Haiman , Ian Harry , Olaf Hartwig , Aurelien Hees , Anna Heffernan , Sascha Husa , David Izquierdo , Nikolaos Karnesis , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Natalia Korsakova , Thomas Kupfer , Danny Laghi , Astrid Lamberts , Shane Larson , Maude Le Jeune , Marek Lewicki , Tyson Littenberg , Eric Madge , Alberto Mangiagli , Sylvain Marsat , Ivan Martin Vilchez , Andrea Maselli , Josh Mathews , Maarten van de Meent , Martina Muratore , Germano Nardini , Paolo Pani , Marco Peloso , Mauro Pieroni , Adam Pound , Hippolyte Quelquejay-Leclere , Angelo Ricciardone , Elena Maria Rossi , Andrea Sartirana , Etienne Savalle , Laura Sberna , Alberto Sesana , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Slutsky , Thomas Sotiriou , Lorenzo Speri , Martin Staab , Danièle Steer , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Jesus Torrado , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Alexandre Toubiana , Michele Vallisneri , Alberto Vecchio , Marta Volonteri , Kent Yagi , Lorenz Zwick

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 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

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the mHz frequency window of the gravitational wave (GW) landscape. Among all the new GW sources expected to emit in this frequency band, extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) constitute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Stanislav Babak , David Izquierdo-Villalba

This is a whitepaper submitted to the 2010 Astronomy Decadal Review process, addressing the potential tests of gravity theory that could be made by observations of gravitational waves in the milliHertz frequency band by the proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-03 Bernard F. Schutz , Joan Centrella , Curt Cutler , Scott A. Hughes

The orbital motion of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) introduces modulations into the observed gravitational wave signal. These modulations can be used to determine the location and orientation of a gravitational wave source.…

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

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 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational radiation in the milliHertz band by measuring picometer-level fluctuations in the distance between drag-free proof masses over baselines of approximately five million…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 James Ira Thorpe

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

Detecting stochastic background radiation of cosmological origin is an exciting possibility for current and future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. However, distinguishing it from other stochastic processes, such as instrumental noise and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-28 Quentin Baghi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Marc Besançon , Henri Inchauspé

The notion that microparsec-scale black holes can be used to probe gigaparsec-scale physics may seem counterintuitive, at first. Yet, the gravitational observatory LISA will detect cosmologically-distant coalescing pairs of massive black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kristen Menou , Zoltan Haiman , Bence Kocsis

Observations of low frequency gravitational waves by the space-based LISA mission will open a new observational window on the early universe and the emergence of structure. LISA will observe the dynamical coalescence of massive black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joan M. Centrella

A strong indication is presented that the space-based gravitational antennas, in particular the LISA concept introduced in 2017 in response to the ESA call for L3 mission concepts, are going to be sensitive to a strong background signal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Adam Smetana

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will provide the largest observational sample of (interacting) double white dwarf binaries, whose evolution is driven by radiation reaction and other effects, such as tides and mass transfer. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Stroeer , A. Vecchio , G. Nelemans

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), adopted by ESA and scheduled for the second half of the next decade, will drive a new revolution in the rapidly growing field of gravitational-wave astronomy, by extending GW observations into…

This is a review about LISA and its technology demonstrator, LISA PathFinder. We first describe the conceptual problems which need to be overcome in order to set up a working interferometric detector of low frequency Gravitational Waves…