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We investigate the possibility of observing very small amplitude low frequency solar oscillations with the proposed laser interferometer space antenna LISA. For frequencies below $\sim 2\times 10^{-4}$ Hz the dominant contribution is from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. W. Roxburgh , A. G. Polnarev , G. Giampieri , S. V. Vorontsov

Idealized models are used to illustrate the potential of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) as a probe of the largely unknown population of cosmologically-distant Massive Black Holes (MBHs) and as a tool to measure their masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kristen Menou

We consider a potentially new class of gravitational wave sources consisting of a white dwarf coalescing into a massive black hole in the mass range ~10^4-10^5\msun. These sources are of particular interest because the gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sesana , A. Vecchio , M. Eracleous , S. Sigurdsson

We reanalyze the detection possibilities for gravitational waves arising from cosmological first order phase transitions. We discuss the stochastic gravitational wave background corresponding to the three expected scenarios of phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Margot Fitz Axen , Sharan Banagiri , Andrew Matas , Chiara Caprini , Vuk Mandic

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

The future space-borne Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational waves (GW) from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI) binaries which may live in nontrivial environments such as accretion disks. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Marco Immanuel B. Rivera , Reinabelle C. Reyes

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, is designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It is expected that tens of millions of Galactic binaries will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cedric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

One of the sources of gravitational waves for the proposed space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), are the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan R. Gair , Christopher Tang , Marta Volonteri

We investigate the capability of various configurations of the space interferometer eLISA to probe the late-time background expansion of the universe using gravitational wave standard sirens. We simulate catalogues of standard sirens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-09 Nicola Tamanini , Chiara Caprini , Enrico Barausse , Alberto Sesana , Antoine Klein , Antoine Petiteau

Large intelligent surface/antennas (LISA), a two-dimensional artificial structure with a large number of reflective-surface/antenna elements, is a promising reflective radio technology to construct programmable wireless environments in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ying-Chang Liang , Ruizhe Long , Qianqian Zhang , Jie Chen , Hei Victor Cheng , Huayan Guo

The gravitational wave (GW) interferometers LISA and ET are expected to be functional in the next decade(s), possibly around the same time. They will operate over different frequency ranges, with similar integrated sensitivities to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Alisha Marriott-Best , Debika Chowdhury , Anish Ghoshal , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The observed microwave background anisotropies in combination with the theory of quantum mechanically generated cosmological perturbations predict a well measurable amount of relic gravitational waves in the frequency intervals tested by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. P. Grishchuk

The MIGA project aims at demonstrating precision measurements of gravity with cold atom sensors in a large scale instrument and at studying the associated applications in geosciences and fundamental physics. The first stage of the project…

We report the realization of a large scale gravity antenna based on matter-wave interferometry, the MIGA project. This experiment consists in an array of cold Rb sources correlated by a 150 m long optical cavity. MIGA is in construction at…

LIGO's detection of gravitational waves marks a first step in measurable effects of general relativity on quantum matter. In its current operation, laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors are already quantum limited at high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Belinda Pang , Yanbei Chen

The joint ESA/NASA LISA mission consists in three spacecraft on heliocentric orbits, flying in a triangular formation of 5 Mkm each side, linked by infrared optical beams. The aim of the mission is to detect gravitational waves in a low…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bertrand Chauvineau , Sophie Pireaux , Tania Regimbau , Jean-Yves Vinet

Physics beyond the Standard Model may give rise to first-order phase transitions proceeding via the nucleation of vacuum bubbles, whose subsequent collisions generate gravitational waves (GWs). Their detection would open the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Katarina Trailović

The strong evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves from pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), published in 2023, has widened the scope for teaching about gravitational wave astronomy. This article provides a simple, unified overview of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Markus Pössel

Ultralight bosons with self-interactions, such as axion-like particles, can form astrophysical Bose-Einstein condensates around stars or compact objects, often referred to as gravitational atoms. In this work, we adopt a recently proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Samuel Gómez Gómez , Xisco Jimenez Forteza , Carlos Palenzuela Luque

We have studied the main features of the gravitational radiation generated by an astrophysical system constituted of three compact objects attracting one another (only via gravitational interaction) in such a manner that stable orbits do…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Enrico Montanari , Mirco Calura , Pierluigi Fortini