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In this work, we report a confocal laser induced fluorescence (LIF) configuration, which allows for high spatial resolution measurements of plasma properties in plasma setups and sources with a limited optical access. The proposed LIF…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 I. Romadanov , Y. Raitses

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

We present infrared observations of the ultra-compact H II region W3(OH) made by the FORCAST instrument aboard SOFIA and by Spitzer/IRAC. We contribute new wavelength data to the spectral energy distribution, which constrains the optical…

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

By being the first observatory to survey the source rich low frequency region of the gravitational wave spectrum, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will revolutionize our understanding of the Cosmos. For the first time we will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Louis J. Rubbo

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 Krolak , Gijs Nelemans

We use Herschel 70 to 160um images to study the size of the far-infrared emitting region in about 400 local galaxies and quasar (QSO) hosts. The sample includes normal `main-sequence' star-forming galaxies, as well as infrared luminous…

We present a new multi-pixel high resolution (R >10^7) spectrometer for the Stratospheric Observatory for Far-Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The receiver uses 2 x 7-pixel subarrays in orthogonal polarization, each in an hexagonal array around…

Data analysis for the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be complicated by the huge number of sources in the LISA band. Throughout much of the band, galactic white dwarf binaries (GWDBs) are sufficiently dense in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Etienne Racine , Curt Cutler

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

LISA is a joint space mission of the NASA and the ESA for detecting low frequency gravitational waves in the band $10^{-5} - 1$ Hz. In order to attain the requisite sensitivity for LISA, the laser frequency noise must be suppressed below…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 S. V. Dhurandhar , J-Y. Vinet , K. Rajesh Nayak

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 Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is an airborne observatory consisting of a specially modified Boeing 747SP with a 2.7-m telescope, flying at altitudes as high as 13.7 km (45,000 ft). Designed to observe at…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect N ~ 22 [x10^(+/- 1)] close white dwarf binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) through their gravitational radiation with signal-to-noise ratios greater than 10 in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray , Naoki Seto

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is poised to revolutionize astrophysics and cosmology in the late 2030's by unlocking unprecedented insights into the most energetic and elusive astrophysical phenomena. The mission envisages…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-18 Gerhard Heinzel , Javier Álvarez-Vizoso , Miguel Dovale-Álvarez , Karsten Wiesner

HIRMES is a far-infrared spectrometer that was chosen as the third generation instrument for NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory. HIRMES promises background limited performance in four modes that cover the wavelength range between 25 and 122…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-20 Greg Douthit , Gordon Stacey , Thomas Nikola , Chuck Henderson , George Gull , Kayla Rossi , Alexander Kutyrev , Harvey Moseley

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will detect gravitational waves with frequencies from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. This article provides a brief overview of LISA's science goals followed by a tutorial of the LISA measurement concept.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Daniel A. Shaddock

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the mHz band of the gravitational wave spectrum for exploration. Sensitivity curves are a useful tool for surveying the types of sources that can be detected by the LISA mission. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Travis Robson , Neil Cornish , Chang Liu

LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will expand our view to the millihertz gravitational-wave sky, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-04 LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group , Niayesh Afshordi , Sarp Akçay , Pau Amaro Seoane , Andrea Antonelli , Josu C. Aurrekoetxea , Leor Barack , Enrico Barausse , Robert Benkel , Laura Bernard , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Emanuele Berti , Matteo Bonetti , Béatrice Bonga , Gabriele Bozzola , Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Marc Casals , David F. Chernoff , Alvin J. K. Chua , Katy Clough , Marta Colleoni , Geoffrey Compère , Mekhi Dhesi , Adrien Druart , Leanne Durkan , Guillaume Faye , Deborah Ferguson , Scott E. Field , William E. Gabella , Juan García-Bellido , Miguel Gracia-Linares , Davide Gerosa , Stephen R. Green , Maria Haney , Mark Hannam , Anna Heffernan , Tanja Hinderer , Thomas Helfer , Scott A. Hughes , Sascha Husa , Soichiro Isoyama , Michael L. Katz , Chris Kavanagh , Gaurav Khanna , Larry E. Kidder , Valeriya Korol , Lorenzo Küchler , Pablo Laguna , François Larrouturou , Alexandre Le Tiec , Benjamin Leather , Eugene A. Lim , Hyun Lim , Tyson B. Littenberg , Oliver Long , Carlos O. Lousto , Geoffrey Lovelace , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Philip Lynch , Rodrigo P. Macedo , Charalampos Markakis , Elisa Maggio , Ilya Mandel , Andrea Maselli , Josh Mathews , Pierre Mourier , David Neilsen , Alessandro Nagar , David A. Nichols , Jan Novák , Maria Okounkova , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Naritaka Oshita , Conor O'Toole , Zhen Pan , Paolo Pani , George Pappas , Vasileios Paschalidis , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lorenzo Pompili , Adam Pound , Geraint Pratten , Hannes R. Rüter , Milton Ruiz , Zeyd Sam , Laura Sberna , Stuart L. Shapiro , Deirdre M. Shoemaker , Carlos F. Sopuerta , Andrew Spiers , Hari Sundar , Nicola Tamanini , Jonathan E. Thompson , Alexandre Toubiana , Antonios Tsokaros , Samuel D. Upton , Maarten van de Meent , Daniele Vernieri , Jeremy M. Wachter , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Helvi Witek , Vojtěch Witzany , Huan Yang , Miguel Zilhão , Angelica Albertini , K. G. Arun , Miguel Bezares , Alexander Bonilla , Christian Chapman-Bird , Bradley Cownden , Kevin Cunningham , Chris Devitt , Sam Dolan , Francisco Duque , Conor Dyson , Chris L. Fryer , Jonathan R. Gair , Bruno Giacomazzo , Priti Gupta , Wen-Biao Han , Roland Haas , Eric W. Hirschmann , E. A. Huerta , Philippe Jetzer , Bernard Kelly , Mohammed Khalil , Jack Lewis , Nicole Lloyd-Ronning , Sylvain Marsat , Germano Nardini , Jakob Neef , Adrian Ottewill , Christiana Pantelidou , Gabriel Andres Piovano , Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Laura Sagunski , Leo C. Stein , Viktor Skoupý , Ulrich Sperhake , Lorenzo Speri , Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Chris Stevens , David Trestini , Alex Vañó-Viñuales

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission aims to detect gravitational waves by interferometrically measuring the change of separation between free-falling test masses (TMs). LISA's interferometers must deliver pm/rtHz…