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The basic constituent of interferometric gravitational wave detectors -- the test mass to test mass interferometric link -- behaves as a differential dynamometer measuring effective differential forces, comprising an integrated measure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-24 Giuseppe Congedo

This paper presents a novel method for laser frequency stabilisation in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission by locking a laser to two stable length references - the arms of the interferometer and an on-board optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil , Andrew J. H. Sutton , Robert E. Spero , Daniel A. Shaddock , Kirk McKenzie

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of precision measurement devices, such as laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatories and axion detectors. In the shot-noise-limited regime, these resonant detectors are subject to a trade-off…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xiang Li , Jiri Smetana , Amit Singh Ubhi , Joe Bentley , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Haixing Miao , Denis Martynov

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 microhertz frequency band of gravitational waves probes the merger of supermassive black holes as well as many other gravitational wave phenomena. However, space-interferometry methods that use test masses would require further…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Matthew McQuinn , Casey McGrath

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

For space gravitational wave (GW) detection, arm locking is a proposal useful in decreasing the frequency noise of the laser sources for current developing space missions LISA and Taiji/TianQin. In this paper, we study the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Jun Nian , Wei-Tou Ni

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…

Laser frequency noise suppression is a critical requirement for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves. The baseline laser stabilization is achieved using cavity pre-stabilization and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Jobin Thomas Valliyakalayil , Andrew Wade , David Rabeling , Jue Zhang , Daniel Shaddock , Kirk McKenzie

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

Laser interferometer detectors are now widely used in an attempt to detect gravitational waves (gw). The interaction of the gw with the light circulating in the interferometer is usually explained in terms of the motion of the "free"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Adrian Melissinos , Ashok Das

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

Space-based gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) use time-shifted and time-scaled linear combinations of differential laser-phase beat signals to cancel the otherwise overwhelming laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shawn J. Mitryk , Josep Sanjuan , Guido Mueller

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is being developed by ESA with NASA participation. As it has recently passed the Mission Adoption milestone, models of the instruments and noise performance are becoming more detailed,…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is a foreseen gravitational wave detector, which aims to detect $10^{-20}$ strains in the frequency range from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. It is a triangular constellation, with equal sides of $2,5 \times 10^9$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 C P Sasso , G Mana , S Mottini

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

Among the expected sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the capture of solar-mass compact stars by massive black holes residing in galactic centers. We construct a simple model for such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Poisson

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

LISA is an upcoming ESA mission that will detect gravitational waves in space by interferometrically measuring the separation between free-falling test masses at picometer precision. To reach the desired performance, LISA will employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-23 Lennart Wissel , Olaf Hartwig , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Martin Staab , Ewan D. Fitzsimons , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel

The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector and the LIGO observatory was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of gravitational wave detectors: resonant bars and…

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