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We propose that stellar-mass binary black holes like GW150914 will become a tool to explore the local Universe within ~100Mpc in the era of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). High calibration accuracy and annual motion of LISA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Koutarou Kyutoku , Naoki Seto

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

Given the recent advances in gravitational-wave detection technologies, the detection and characterisation of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a real possibility. To assess the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Carlo R. Contaldi , Mauro Pieroni , Arianna I. Renzini , Giulia Cusin , Nikos Karnesis , Marco Peloso , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

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) mHz < f < 0.1 Hz. This is expected to be an extremely rich chunk of the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-02 Scott A. Hughes

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

We calculate the angular resolution of the planned LISA detector, a space-based laser interferometer for measuring low-frequency gravitational waves from galactic and extragalactic sources. LISA is not a pointed instrument; it is an all-sky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Curt Cutler

The space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to observe the gravitational-wave signals from systems comprised of a massive black hole and a stellar-mass compact object. These systems are known as extreme-mass-ratio…

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) is a proposed space mission for the detection of gravitational waves. It consists of three drag-free satellites flying in a triangular constellation. A gravitational reference sensor is used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-08 Andreas Zoellner , Eric Hultgren , Ke-Xun Sun

Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is essential for suppressing laser frequency noise in space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as LISA. However, current second-generation TDI schemes often exhibit undesirable null frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Gang Wang

A space-based gravitational-wave detector, LISA, consists of a triangle of three spacecrafts with a separation distance of 2.5 million kilometers in a heliocentric orbit behind the Earth. Like LISA, Taiji is compose of a triangle of three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Wen-Hong Ruan , Chang Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Yue-Liang Wu , Rong-Gen Cai

LISA Pathfinder is the technological demonstrator space mission for the future gravitational waves observatory in space eLISA, with the aim of measure the differential acceleration between free-falling test masses orbiting in the same…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-02 Giuliana Russano

Precision phase readout of optical beat note signals is one of the core techniques required for intersatellite laser interferometry. Future space based gravitational wave detectors like eLISA require such a readout over a wide range of MHz…

A unique challenge for data analysis with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is that the noise backgrounds from instrumental noise and astrophysical sources will change significantly over both the year and the entire mission.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Matthew C. Digman , Neil J. Cornish

The magnitudes of the external gravitational perturbations associated with the normal modes of the Sun are evaluated to determine whether these solar oscillations could be observed with the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Curt Cutler , Lee Lindblom

The multiple Doppler readouts available on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) permit simultaneous formation of several interferometric observables. All these observables are independent of laser frequency fluctuations and have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas A. Prince , Massimo Tinto , Shane L. Larson , J. W. Armstrong

Time-delay interferometry is put forward to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of space-borne gravitational wave detectors by canceling the large laser phase noise with different combinations of measured data. Based on the Michelson data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao-Yu Lu , Yu-Jie Tan , Cheng-Gang Shao

Obtaining lensing time delay measurements requires long-term monitoring campaigns with a high enough resolution (< 1 arcsec) to separate the multiple images. In the radio, a limited number of high-resolution interferometer arrays make these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-21 G. Gurkan , N. Jackson , L. V. E. Koopmans , C. D. Fassnacht , A. Berciano Alba

The LISA mission is an international collaboration between ESA, its member states, and NASA, for the detection of gravitational waves from space. It was adopted in January 2024 and is scheduled for launch in the mid-2030's. It will be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Chiara Caprini , Anna Heffernan , Richard Brito , Gabriele Franciolini , Germano Nardini , Nicola Tamanini , Danièle Steer

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the mid-2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in the millihertz band. LISA is an ESA flagship mission,…