激光干涉空间天线：揭示毫赫兹引力波天空
天体物理仪器与方法
2019-07-29 v2 高能天体物理现象
广义相对论与量子宇宙学
摘要
首批地面引力波干涉仪已极大凸显了通过全然不同的窗口观测宇宙的科学价值，以及将这一新信息通道与传统天文数据结合以获得多信使视野的价值。激光干涉空间天线（LISA）将通过开展首次毫赫兹引力波天空巡天拓宽引力波天文学的疆域，探测数以万计的独立天体物理源，从银河系内的白矮星双星到红移超越再电离时期的超大质量黑洞并合。这些观测将告知——并变革——我们对恒星演化终态、超大质量黑洞诞生及星系与黑洞随宇宙时间的共同演化的理解。LISA 还有潜力探测来自难以捉摸的天体物理源（如中等质量黑洞）以及奇异宇宙学源（如暴胀场与宇宙弦尖点）的引力波辐射。
引用
@article{arxiv.1907.06482,
title = {The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: Unveiling the Millihertz Gravitational Wave Sky},
author = {John Baker and Jillian Bellovary and Peter L. Bender and Emanuele Berti and Robert Caldwell and Jordan Camp and John W. Conklin and Neil Cornish and Curt Cutler and Ryan DeRosa and Michael Eracleous and Elizabeth C. Ferrara and Samuel Francis and Martin Hewitson and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann and Ann Hornschemeier and Craig Hogan and Brittany Kamai and Bernard J. Kelly and Joey Shapiro Key and Shane L. Larson and Jeff Livas and Sridhar Manthripragada and Kirk McKenzie and Sean T. McWilliams and Guido Mueller and Priyamvada Natarajan and Kenji Numata and Norman Rioux and Shannon R. Sankar and Jeremy Schnittman and David Shoemaker and Deirdre Shoemaker and Jacob Slutsky and Robert Spero and Robin Stebbins and Ira Thorpe and Michele Vallisneri and Brent Ware and Peter Wass and Anthony Yu and John Ziemer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06482},
year = {2019}
}
备注
White Paper submitted to Astro2020 (2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics). v2: fixed a reference