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Precision phase readout of optical beat note signals is one of the core techniques required for intersatellite laser interferometry. Future space based gravitational wave detectors like eLISA require such a readout over a wide range of MHz…

In this article we describe the first investigations of the complete engineering model of the Optical Metrology System (OMS), a key subsystem of the LISA Pathfinder science mission to space. The latter itself is a technological precursor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-04-07 G. Hechenblaikner , R. Gerndt , U. Johann , P. Luetzow-Wentzky , V. Wand , H. Audley , K. Danzmann , A. Garcia-Marin , G. Heinzel , M. Nofrarias , F. Steier

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 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), space-based gravitational wave observatory involves a complex multidimensional closed-loop dynamical system. Its instrument performance is expected to be less efficiently isolated from platform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-05 Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , Dam Quang Nam , Orion Sauter , Ricardo Waibel , Peter Wass

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a rich discovery space in the milli-Hertz gravitational wave band. In addition to the anticipated signals from many millions of binary systems, this band may contain new and previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-16 Travis Robson , Neil J. Cornish

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational-wave (GW) observatory will be limited in its ability to detect mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) in the stellar-mass range. A future ground-based detector network, meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Kaze W. K. Wong , Ely D. Kovetz , Curt Cutler , Emanuele Berti

It was shown in a previous work that the data combinations canceling laser frequency noise constitute a module - the module of syzygies. The cancellation of laser frequency noise is crucial for obtaining the requisite sensitivity for LISA.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 K. Rajesh Nayak , S. V. Dhurandhar , A. Pai , J-Y Vinet

Laser frequency noise (LFN) is the dominant source of noise expected in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, at $\sim$7 orders of magnitude greater than the typical signal expected from gravitational waves (GWs).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-13 Jessica Page , Tyson Littenberg

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…

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Królak , Gijs Nelemans

We present a study of the use and limits of the Time-Delay Interferometry null channels for in flight estimation of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna instrumental noise. The paper considers how the two main limiting noise sources,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-03 Martina Muratore , Olaf Hartwig , Daniele Vetrugno , Stefano Vitale , William Joseph Weber

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 precursor ESA mission LISA-Pathfinder, to be flown in 2013, aims at demonstrating the feasibility of the free-fall, necessary for LISA, the upcoming space-born gravitational wave observatory. LISA Technology Package (LTP) is planned to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-04 G. Congedo , F. De Marchi , L. Ferraioli , M. Hueller , S. Vitale , M. Hewitson , M. Nofrarias , A. Monsky , M. Armano , A. Grynagier , M. Diaz-Aguilo , E. Plagnol , B. Rais

LISA Pathfinder is a technology demonstration mission for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The main experiment on-board LISA Pathfinder is the so-called LISA Technology Package (LTP) which has the aim to measure the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-23 Frank Steier , Felipe Guzmán Cervantes , Antonio F. García Marín , Domenico Gerardi , Gerhard Heinzel , Karsten Danzmann

Future drag-free missions for space-based experiments in gravitational physics require a Gravitational Reference Sensor with extremely demanding sensing and disturbance reduction requirements. A configuration with two cubical sensors is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-06 D. Gerardi , G. Allen , J. W. Conklin , K-X. Sun , D. DeBra , S. Buchman , P. Gath , W. Fichter , R. L. Byer , U. Johann

Coherent alignments of galaxy shapes, often called "intrinsic alignments" (IA), are the most significant source of astrophysical uncertainty in weak lensing measurements. We develop the tidal alignment model of IA and demonstrate its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Jonathan Blazek , Uroš Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the mid-2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in the millihertz band. LISA is an ESA flagship mission,…

Building on the great success of the LISA Pathfinder mission, the outlines of a new LISA mission design were laid out at the $11^{\rm th}$ International LISA Symposium in Zurich. The revised design calls for three identical spacecraft…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-09 Neil Cornish , Travis Robson

Due to the sheer complexity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) space mission, data gaps arising from instrumental irregularities and/or scheduled maintenance are unavoidable. Focusing on merger-dominated massive black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Ollie Burke , Sylvain Marsat , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael L. Katz

The LISA mission is an international collaboration between ESA, its member states, and NASA, for the detection of gravitational waves from space. It was adopted in January 2024 and is scheduled for launch in the mid-2030's. It will be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Chiara Caprini , Anna Heffernan , Richard Brito , Gabriele Franciolini , Germano Nardini , Nicola Tamanini , Danièle Steer