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The response of the Moon to gravitational waves (GWs) is used by some of the proposed lunar GW detectors like the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (LGWA) to turn the Moon into an antenna for GWs. The deep connection between the lunar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-11 Xiaoming Bi , Jan Harms

The Earth's Moon presents a uniquely advantageous environment for detecting astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs) in the frequency range of millihertz to decihertz. Unlike Terrestrial GW detectors, the quiet seismic environment of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Teviet Creighton , Philippe Lognonné , Mark P. Panning , James Trippe , Volker Quetschke , Karan Jani

We study the prospects of the Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna (LGWA), a proposed deci-Hz GW detector, to observe binary black holes (BBHs) and enable multiband science with ground-based detectors. We assess the detectability of the events…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Francesco Iacovelli , Jacopo Tissino , Jan Harms , Emanuele Berti

New concepts were recently proposed for gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the Moon. These include laser-interferometric detectors, proposed as free-range or optical-fiber interferometers, and inertial acceleration sensors. Some of them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-29 Jan Harms

Lunar gravitational-wave (GW) detectors relying on the measurement of the response of the Moon to GWs are susceptible to a seismic background, which might pose a fundamental sensitivity limitation. The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Han Yan , Jan Harms

The toolbox to study the Universe grew on 14 September 2015 when the LIGO-Virgo collaboration heard a signal from two colliding black holes between 30-250 Hz. Since then, many more gravitational waves have been detected as detectors…

New concepts for observing the gravitational waves (GWs) using a detector on the Moon, such as the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (LGWA), have gained increasing attention. By utilizing the Moon as a giant antenna, the LGWA is expected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-07 Hanlin Song , Han Yan , Yacheng Kang , Xian Chen , Junjie Zhao , Lijing Shao

The Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna (LGWA) is a proposed gravitational-wave detector that will observe in the decihertz (dHz) frequency region. In this band, binary white dwarf systems are expected to merge, emitting gravitational waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Giovanni Benetti , Marica Branchesi , Jan Harms , Jean-Pierre Zendri

The coming decades will see gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy expand decisively into the mHz-Hz frequency range, opening access to a population of compact binaries that are currently invisible or only detectable moments before merger. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 F. Patat , S. Piranomonte , S. Benetti , A. Bonforte , R. Della Ceca , G. Di Rico , A. Frigeri , J. Harms , M. Olivieri , A. Perali , P. Severgnini , A. Stallone , the LGWA Collaboration

The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA), a concept for measuring sub-Hz gravitational waves on the Moon, would use laser strainmeters to obtain extremely sensitive strain measurements from 1 mHz to 1 Hz. With proposed strain…

The recent success of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy together with renewed plans for lunar geophysical instrumentation has revived interest in using the Moon as a resonant detector for mid-frequency (mHz-Hz) GWs. In realistic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Han Yan , Jan Harms

The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) presents a novel concept for observing gravitational waves from astrophysical sources at sub-Hertz frequencies. Compared to the Earth, the seismic environment of the moon, while uncertain, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Brett N. Shapiro

Motivated by the old idea of using the moon as a resonant gravitational-wave (GW) detector, as well as the recent updates in modeling the lunar response to GWs, we re-evaluate the feasibility of using a network of lunar seismometers to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang , Fan Zhang , Lijing Shao , Mengyao Wang

The Lunar Gravitational--Wave Antenna is a proposed low-frequency gravitational-wave detector on the Moon surface. It will be composed of an array of high-end cryogenic superconducting inertial sensors (CSISs). A cryogenic environment will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-11 Francesca Badaracco , Joris V. van Heijningen , Elvis Ferreira , Andrea Perali

The recent increasing interest in detecting gravitational waves (GWs) by lunar seismic measurement urges us to have a clear understanding of the response of the moon to passing GWs. In this paper, we clarify the relationship between two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang , Fan Zhang , Mengyao Wang , Lijing Shao

The Earth's Moon presents a uniquely advantageous environment for detecting astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs), particularly in the scientifically interesting deciHz regime. The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antennae (LILA) project plans…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 James Trippe , Ronald Polidan , Teviet Creighton , Philippe Lognonné , Mark Panning , Volker Quetschke , Kris Izquierdo , Brett Shapiro , Karan Jani

A new era of lunar exploration has begun with participation of all major space agencies. This activity brings opportunities for revolutionary science experiments and observatories on the Moon. The idea of a lunar gravitational-wave detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Andrea Cozzumbo , Benedetta Mestichelli , Marco Mirabile , Lavinia Paiella , Jacopo Tissino , Jan Harms

In the light of the recent advances in lunar space missions a great interest into using Moon as a future environment for gravitational waves (GWs) detectors has been initiated. Moon offers a unique environment for such detectors due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 Josipa Majstorović , Léon Vidal , Philippe Lognonné
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