Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Abstract
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 a spectacular variety of interesting new sources abound: from millions of ultra-compact binaries in our Galaxy, to mergers of massive black holes at cosmological distances; from the beginnings of inspirals that will venture into the ground-based detectors' view to the death spiral of compact objects into massive black holes, and many sources in between. Central to realising LISA's discovery potential are waveform models, the theoretical and phenomenological predictions of the pattern of gravitational waves that these sources emit. This white paper is presented on behalf of the Waveform Working Group for the LISA Consortium. It provides a review of the current state of waveform models for LISA sources, and describes the significant challenges that must yet be overcome.
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@article{arxiv.2311.01300,
title = {Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna},
author = {LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group and Niayesh Afshordi and Sarp Akçay and Pau Amaro Seoane and Andrea Antonelli and Josu C. Aurrekoetxea and Leor Barack and Enrico Barausse and Robert Benkel and Laura Bernard and Sebastiano Bernuzzi and Emanuele Berti and Matteo Bonetti and Béatrice Bonga and Gabriele Bozzola and Richard Brito and Alessandra Buonanno and Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño and Marc Casals and David F. Chernoff and Alvin J. K. Chua and Katy Clough and Marta Colleoni and Geoffrey Compère and Mekhi Dhesi and Adrien Druart and Leanne Durkan and Guillaume Faye and Deborah Ferguson and Scott E. Field and William E. Gabella and Juan García-Bellido and Miguel Gracia-Linares and Davide Gerosa and Stephen R. Green and Maria Haney and Mark Hannam and Anna Heffernan and Tanja Hinderer and Thomas Helfer and Scott A. Hughes and Sascha Husa and Soichiro Isoyama and Michael L. Katz and Chris Kavanagh and Gaurav Khanna and Larry E. Kidder and Valeriya Korol and Lorenzo Küchler and Pablo Laguna and François Larrouturou and Alexandre Le Tiec and Benjamin Leather and Eugene A. Lim and Hyun Lim and Tyson B. Littenberg and Oliver Long and Carlos O. Lousto and Geoffrey Lovelace and Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos and Philip Lynch and Rodrigo P. Macedo and Charalampos Markakis and Elisa Maggio and Ilya Mandel and Andrea Maselli and Josh Mathews and Pierre Mourier and David Neilsen and Alessandro Nagar and David A. Nichols and Jan Novák and Maria Okounkova and Richard O'Shaughnessy and Naritaka Oshita and Conor O'Toole and Zhen Pan and Paolo Pani and George Pappas and Vasileios Paschalidis and Harald P. Pfeiffer and Lorenzo Pompili and Adam Pound and Geraint Pratten and Hannes R. Rüter and Milton Ruiz and Zeyd Sam and Laura Sberna and Stuart L. Shapiro and Deirdre M. Shoemaker and Carlos F. Sopuerta and Andrew Spiers and Hari Sundar and Nicola Tamanini and Jonathan E. Thompson and Alexandre Toubiana and Antonios Tsokaros and Samuel D. Upton and Maarten van de Meent and Daniele Vernieri and Jeremy M. Wachter and Niels Warburton and Barry Wardell and Helvi Witek and Vojtěch Witzany and Huan Yang and Miguel Zilhão and Angelica Albertini and K. G. Arun and Miguel Bezares and Alexander Bonilla and Christian Chapman-Bird and Bradley Cownden and Kevin Cunningham and Chris Devitt and Sam Dolan and Francisco Duque and Conor Dyson and Chris L. Fryer and Jonathan R. Gair and Bruno Giacomazzo and Priti Gupta and Wen-Biao Han and Roland Haas and Eric W. Hirschmann and E. A. Huerta and Philippe Jetzer and Bernard Kelly and Mohammed Khalil and Jack Lewis and Nicole Lloyd-Ronning and Sylvain Marsat and Germano Nardini and Jakob Neef and Adrian Ottewill and Christiana Pantelidou and Gabriel Andres Piovano and Jaime Redondo-Yuste and Laura Sagunski and Leo C. Stein and Viktor Skoupý and Ulrich Sperhake and Lorenzo Speri and Thomas F. M. Spieksma and Chris Stevens and David Trestini and Alex Vañó-Viñuales},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.01300},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
145 pages, 2000+ references, 11 figures, white paper from the LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group, updated to match published version