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During the On-Station Thermal Test campaign of the LISA Pathfinder the data and diagnostics subsystem was tested in nearly space conditions for the first time after integration in the satellite. The results showed the compliance of the…

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

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 provide us with a unique opportunity to observe the early inspiral phase of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) in the mass range of $10^5-10^6\,M_{\odot}$, that lasts for several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-09 Sayantani Datta

The ongoing development of the space-based laser interferometer missions is aiming at unprecedented gravitational wave detections in the millihertz frequency band. The spaceborne nature of the experimental setups leads to a degree of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Pan-Pan Wang , Yu-Jie Tan , Wei-Liang Qian , Cheng-Gang Shao

LISA is an array of three spacecraft flying in an approximately equilateral triangle configuration, which will be used as a low-frequency detector of gravitational waves. Recently a technique has been proposed for suppressing the phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Tinto , Malik Rakhmanov

Low-noise temperature measurements at frequencies in the milli-Hertz range are needed in the LISA and LISA PathFinder (LPF). The required temperature stability for LISA is around 10 uK/sqrt(Hz) at frequencies down to 0.1 mHz. In this paper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-25 J. Sanjuan , A. Lobo , J. Ramos-Castro

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen , Jonathan Gair

Laser frequency noise is a dominant noise background for the detection of gravitational waves using long-baseline optical interferometry. Amelioration of this noise requires near simultaneous strain measurements on more than one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

It has been shown in the past, that the six Doppler data streams obtained LISA configuration can be combined by appropriately delaying the data streams for cancelling the laser frequency noise. Raw laser noise is several orders of magnitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 K. Rajesh Nayak , A. Pai , S. V. Dhurandhar , J-Y. Vinet

The direct observation of gravitational waves will provide a unique tool for probing the dynamical properties of highly compact astrophysical objects, mapping ultra-relativistic regions of space-time, and testing Einstein's general theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-17 Massimo Tinto , Márcio Eduardo da Silva Alves

We present detailed numerical simulations of a laser phase stabilization scheme for LISA, where both lasers emitting along one arm are locked to each other. Including the standard secondary noises and spacecraft motions that approximately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre

We present first-order models for tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling in LISA, both for the individual interferometers as well as in the time-delay interferometry (TDI) Michelson observables. These models include the noise contributions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Gudrun Wanner , Sweta Shah , Martin Staab , Henry Wegener , Sarah Paczkowski

Space-based gravitational wave detectors based on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) design operate by synthesizing one or more interferometers from fringe velocity measurements generated by changes in the light travel time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 Karan P. Jani , Lee Samuel Finn , Matthew J. Benacquista

The LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission succeeded outstandingly in demonstrating key technological aspects of future space-borne gravitational-wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Specifically, LPF demonstrated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Quentin Baghi , Natalia Korsakova , Jacob Slutsky , Eleonora Castelli , Nikolaos Karnesis , Jean-Baptiste Bayle

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

By listening to gravity in the low frequency band, between 0.1 mHz and 1 Hz, the future space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA will be able to detect tens of thousands of astrophysical sources from cosmic dawn to the present. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Quentin Baghi , Ira Thorpe , Jacob Slutsky , John Baker , Tito Dal Canton , Natalia Korsakova , Nikos Karnesis

We present an approach to compute stabilizing controllers for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems directly from an input-output trajectory affected by process and measurement noise. The proposed output-feedback design combines (i)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Alessandro Bosso , Marco Borghesi , Andrea Iannelli , Bowen Yi , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We conduct the first full Bayesian inference analysis for LISA parameter estimation incorporating the effects of subdominant harmonics and spin-precession through a full time domain response. The substantial computational demands of using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-11 Cecilio García-Quirós , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Stanislav Babak

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