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The ESA/NASA joint LISA (laser interferometer space antenna) mission is designed to detect gravitational waves, which relies crucially on maintaining three-spacecraft constellation as close to an equilateral triangle with a designed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-24 Yaguang Yang

Laser interferometer response to a plane gravitational wave on the Minkowski background is given. The derivation does not assume any particular gauge within a class compatible with almost Minkowskian coordinates that preserve a plane wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-30 Arkadiusz Błaut

The detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves could significantly impact our understanding of the physical processes that shaped the early Universe. The challenge lies in separating the cosmological signal from other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

I review the scientific potential of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a space-borne gravitational wave (GW) observatory to be launched in the early 30s'. Thanks to its sensitivity in the milli-Hz frequency range, LISA will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Alberto Sesana

The low-frequency resolution of space-based gravitational wave observatories such as LISA (Laser Interferometry Space Antenna) hinges on the orbital purity of a free-falling reference test mass inside a satellite shield. We present here a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Carbone , A. Cavalleri , R. Dolesi , C. D. Hoyle , M. Hueller , S. Vitale , W. J. Weber

This article reviews current efforts and plans for gravitational-wave detection, the gravitational-wave sources that might be detected, and the information that the detectors might extract from the observed waves. Special attention is paid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kip S. Thorne

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is scheduled to launch in the mid 2030s, and is expected to observe gravitational-wave candidates from massive black-hole binary mergers, extreme mass-ratio inspirals, and more. Accurately…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-21 Charlie Hoy , Laura K. Nuttall

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA, will detect gravitational wave signals from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals, where a stellar mass compact object orbits a supermassive black hole and eventually plunges into it. Here we report on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Andrea Maselli , Nicola Franchini , Leonardo Gualtieri , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Susanna Barsanti , Paolo Pani

LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly $(0.03 - 0.1) {\rm mHz} \lesssim f \lesssim 0.1 {\rm Hz}$. This is expected to be an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Scott A. Hughes

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

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

Gravitational wave detectors in space, particularly the LISA project, can study a rich variety of astronomical systems whose gravitational radiation is not detectable from the ground, because it is emitted in the low-frequency gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Schutz

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory. It will measure gravitational wave signals in the frequency regime from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. The success of these measurements will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Marie-Sophie Hartig , Sarah Paczkowski , Martin Hewitson , Gerhard Heinzel , Gudrun Wanner

The proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is tasked with the detection and characterization of gravitational waves from various sources in the universe. This endeavor is challenged by transient displacement and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Niklas Houba , Luigi Ferraioli , Domenico Giardini

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

A binary compact object early in its inspiral phase will be picked up by its nearly monochromatic gravitational radiation by LISA. But even this innocuous appearing candidate poses interesting detection challenges. The data that will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Aaron Rogan , Sukanta Bose

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 Królak , Gijs Nelemans

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission features a three-spacecraft long-arm constellation intended to detect gravitational wave sources in the low-frequency band up to 1 Hz via laser interferometry. The paper presents an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-24 Niklas Houba , Simon Delchambre , Tobias Ziegler , Gerald Hechenblaikner , Walter Fichter

Unlike ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors, large space-based systems will not be rigid structures. When the end-stations of the laser interferometer are freely flying spacecraft, the armlengths will change due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Shane L. Larson , Ronald W. Hellings , William A. Hiscock

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