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Gravitational-wave detectors with sensitivities sufficient to measure the radiation from astrophysical sources are rapidly coming into existence. By the end of this decade, there will exist several ground-based instruments in North America,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott A. Hughes , Szabolcs Marka , Peter L. Bender , Craig J. Hogan

We report on three numerical experiments on the implementation of Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) for LISA, performed with Synthetic LISA, a C++/Python package that we developed to simulate the LISA science process at the level of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Michele Vallisneri

Expanding laser plasmas, produced by high energy laser radiation, possess both high thermal and magnetic field energy density. Characterization of such plasma is challenging but needed for understanding of its physical behaviour. Among all…

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

In the coming decade, the LIGO/VIRGO/GEO network of ground-based kilometer-scale laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors will open up a new astronomical window on the Universe: gravitational waves in the frequency band 10 to 10^4…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eanna E Flanagan

A distributed antenna system is studied whose goal is to provide data communication and positioning functionalities to Mobile Stations (MSs). Each MS receives data from a number of Base Stations (BSs), and uses the received signal not only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Seongah Jeong , Osvaldo Simeone , Alexander Haimovich , Joonhyuk Kang

This document presents a Data Model to describe Spectral Line Transitions in the context of the Simple Line Access Protocol defined by the IVOA (c.f. Ref[13] IVOA Simple Line Access protocol) The main objective of the model is to integrate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Pedro Osuna , Matteo Guainazzi , Jesus Salgado , Marie-Lise Dubernet , Evelyne Roueff

The extreme weakness of the gravitational interaction has as one of its consequences that appreciable intensities of gravitational waves (GW) can only be generated in large size astrophysical and cosmological sources. Earth based detectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Alberto Lobo

The response of a gravitational-wave (GW) interferometer is spatially modulated and is described by two antenna patterns, one for each polarization state of the waves. The antenna patterns are derived from the shape and size of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-21 Andrea Virtuoso , Edoardo Milotti

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 spectacular development of Laser-Plasma Accelerators (LPA) appears very promising for a free electron laser application. The handling of the inherent properties of those LPA beams already allowed controlled production of LPA-based…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 M. Labat , S. Bielawski , A. Loulergue , S. Corde , M. E. Couprie , E. Roussel

The space mission LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), scheduled for launch in 2035, aims to detect gravitational wave (GW) signals in the milli-Hz band. In the context of ESA Voyage 2050 Call for new mission concepts, other frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Alice Perego , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana , Silvia Toonen , Valeriya Korol

In this article we give a brief review of the fundamental physics that can be done with the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. This includes detection of gravitational wave bursts coming from cosmic strings, measuring a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-25 Stanislav Babak , Jonathan R. Gair , Antoine Petiteau , Alberto Sesana

Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) is the data processing technique needed for generating interferometric combinations of data measured by the multiple Doppler readouts available onboard the three LISA spacecraft. Within the space of all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Tinto , Shane L. Larson

Histopathological analysis has been transformed by serial section-based methods, advancing beyond traditional 2D histology to enable volumetric and microstructural insights in oncology and inflammatory disease diagnostics. This review…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-05 Zhenfeng Zhuang , Min Cen , Lei Jiang , Qiong Peng , Yihuang Hu , Hong-Yu Zhou , Liansheng Wang

Space-borne interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, sensitive in the low-frequency (mHz) band, will fly in the next decade. In these detectors, the spacecraft-to-spacecraft light-travel times will necessarily be unequal and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Tinto , Michele Vallisneri , J. W. Armstrong

The space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA, a NASA-ESA mission to be launched after 2012, will achieve its optimal sensitivity using Time Delay Interferometry (TDI), a LISA-specific technique needed to cancel the otherwise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Michele Vallisneri

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory to measure gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band. This frequency band is expected to be dominated by signals from millions of Galactic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

Space-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as LISA, record interferometric measurements on widely separated satellites. Their clocks are not synced actively. Instead, clock synchronization is performed in on-ground data processing. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Jan Niklas Reinhardt , Olaf Hartwig , Gerhard Heinzel

Proper tuning of the orbital characteristics of the three spacecrafts that constitute the usual triangular configuration of the space-borne gravitational-wave detector LISA, could minimize the breathing mode of its arm-lengths. Since the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-15 Ioannis Deligiannis , Theocharis A. Apostolatos