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The orbital motion of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) introduces modulations into the observed gravitational wave signal. These modulations can be used to determine the location and orientation of a gravitational wave source.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Neil J. Cornish , Louis J. Rubbo

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the early 2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in the milli-Hertz band. In contrast to the present ground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Nikolaos Karnesis , Stanislav Babak , Mauro Pieroni , Neil Cornish , Tyson Littenberg

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

Laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors can be operated at their free spectral range frequency. We show that in this case and when the interferometer is well understood one could detect a stochastic background using a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian C. Melissinos , William E. Butler

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

This document briefly describes the noise models and shapes used for the synthesis of the Drag-Free and Attitude Control System in the LISA space mission. LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is one of the next large-class missions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Michele Pagone , Carlo Novara

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

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonathan R Gair , Martin Hewitson , Antoine Petiteau , Guido Mueller

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

Finding a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) of astrophysical or primordial origin is one of the quests of current and future gravitational-wave observatories. While detector networks such as LIGO-Virgo-Kagra or pulsar timing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Quentin Baghi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Marc Besançon , Henri Inchauspé

Detecting stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs) with The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is among the mission science objectives. Disentangling SGWBs of astrophysical and cosmological origin is a challenging task,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Federico Pozzoli , Riccardo Buscicchio , Christopher J. Moore , Francesco Haardt , Alberto Sesana

A world-wide effort is now underway to build gravitational wave detectors based on highly-sensitive laser interferometers. When data from detectors at different sites is properly combined, it will permit highly-sensitive searches for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-21 Bruce Allen

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational radiation from a large number of compact binary systems. We present a method by which these signals can be identified and have their parameters estimated. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard Umstätter , Nelson Christensen , Martin Hendry , Renate Meyer , Vimal Simha , John Veitch , Sarah Vigeland , Graham Woan

A strong indication is presented that the space-based gravitational antennas, in particular the LISA concept introduced in 2017 in response to the ESA call for L3 mission concepts, are going to be sensitive to a strong background signal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Adam Smetana

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

Stochastic gravitational waves (GW) associated with unresolved astrophysical sources at frequency bands of the ongoing GW interferometers LIGO/VIRGO and LISA are studied. We show that GW noise from rotating galactic neutron stars with low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Postnov

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

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

First order phase transitions in the early universe could produce a gravitational-wave background that might be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Such an observation would provide evidence for physics beyond the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Guillaume Boileau , Nelson Christensen , Chloe Gowling , Mark Hindmarsh , Renate Meyer