Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Abstract
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address many key astrophysical questions in a completely novel way. The synergy with ground-based and space-born instruments in the electromagnetic domain, by enabling multi-messenger observations, will add further to the discovery potential of LISA. The next decade is crucial to prepare the astrophysical community for LISA's first observations. This review outlines the extensive landscape of astrophysical theory, numerical simulations, and astronomical observations that are instrumental for modeling and interpreting the upcoming LISA datastream. To this aim, the current knowledge in three main source classes for LISA is reviewed; ultracompact stellar-mass binaries, massive black hole binaries, and extreme or intermediate mass ratio inspirals. The relevant astrophysical processes and the established modeling techniques are summarized. Likewise, open issues and gaps in our understanding of these sources are highlighted, along with an indication of how LISA could help making progress in the different areas. New research avenues that LISA itself, or its joint exploitation with upcoming studies in the electromagnetic domain, will enable, are also illustrated. Improvements in modeling and analysis approaches, such as the combination of numerical simulations and modern data science techniques, are discussed. This review is intended to be a starting point for using LISA as a new discovery tool for understanding our Universe.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.06016,
title = {Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna},
author = {Pau Amaro Seoane and Jeff Andrews and Manuel Arca Sedda and Abbas Askar and Quentin Baghi and Razvan Balasov and Imre Bartos and Simone S. Bavera and Jillian Bellovary and Christopher P. L. Berry and Emanuele Berti and Stefano Bianchi and Laura Blecha and Stephane Blondin and Tamara Bogdanović and Samuel Boissier and Matteo Bonetti and Silvia Bonoli and Elisa Bortolas and Katelyn Breivik and Pedro R. Capelo and Laurentiu Caramete and Federico Cattorini and Maria Charisi and Sylvain Chaty and Xian Chen and Martyna Chruślińska and Alvin J. K. Chua and Ross Church and Monica Colpi and Daniel D'Orazio and Camilla Danielski and Melvyn B. Davies and Pratika Dayal and Alessandra De Rosa and Andrea Derdzinski and Kyriakos Destounis and Massimo Dotti and Ioana Duţan and Irina Dvorkin and Gaia Fabj and Thierry Foglizzo and Saavik Ford and Jean-Baptiste Fouvry and Alessia Franchini and Tassos Fragos and Chris Fryer and Massimo Gaspari and Davide Gerosa and Luca Graziani and Paul Groot and Melanie Habouzit and Daryl Haggard and Zoltan Haiman and Wen-Biao Han and Alina Istrate and Peter H. Johansson and Fazeel Mahmood Khan and Tomas Kimpson and Kostas Kokkotas and Albert Kong and Valeriya Korol and Kyle Kremer and Thomas Kupfer and Astrid Lamberts and Shane Larson and Mike Lau and Dongliang Liu and Nicole Lloyd-Ronning and Giuseppe Lodato and Alessandro Lupi and Chung-Pei Ma and Tomas Maccarone and Ilya Mandel and Alberto Mangiagli and Michela Mapelli and Steéphane Mathis and Lucio Mayer and Sean McGee and Berry McKernan and M. Coleman Miller and David F. Mota and Matthew Mumpower and Syeda S Nasim and Gijs Nelemans and Scott Noble and Fabio Pacucci and Francesca Panessa and Vasileio Paschalidis and Hugo Pfister and Delphine Porquet and John Quenby and Angelo Ricarte and Friedrich K. Röpke and John Regan and Stephan Rosswog and Ashley Ruiter and Milton Ruiz and Jessie Runnoe and Raffaella Schneider and Jeremy Schnittman and Amy Secunda and Alberto Sesana and Naoki Seto and Lijing Shao and Stuart Shapiro and Carlos Sopuerta and Nicholas C. Stone and Arthur Suvorov and Nicola Tamanini and Tomas Tamfal and Thomas Tauris and Karel Temmink and John Tomsick and Silvia Toonen and Alejandro Torres-Orjuela and Martina Toscani and Antonios Tsokaros and Caner Unal and Verónica Vázquez-Aceves and Rosa Valiante and Maurice van Putten and Jan van Roestel and Christian Vignali and Marta Volonteri and Kinwah Wu and Ziri Younsi and Shenghua Yu and Silvia Zane and Lorenz Zwick and Fabio Antonini and Vishal Baibhav and Enrico Barausse and Alexander Bonilla Rivera and Marica Branchesi and Graziella Branduardi-Raymont and Kevin Burdge and Srija Chakraborty and Jorge Cuadra and Kristen Dage and Benjamin Davis and Selma E. de Mink and Roberto Decarli and Daniela Doneva and Stephanie Escoffier and Giacomo Fragione and Poshak Gandhi and Francesco Haardt and Carlos O. Lousto and Samaya Nissanke and Jason Nordhaus and Richard O'Shaughnessy and Simon Portegies Zwart and Adam Pound and Fabian Schussler and Olga Sergijenko and Alessandro Spallicci and Daniele Vernieri and Alejandro Vigna-Gómez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.06016},
year = {2023}
}