The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: An Overview

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May 2004

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American Physical Society, April Meeting, 2004, May 1-4, 2004, Denver, Colorado April 2004, MEETING ID: APR04, abstract #L9.001

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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a joint ESA-NASA mission that will explore the Universe for gravitational wave sources between 0.1 mHz and 1 Hz. Anticipated sources of gravitational waves include: the inspiral of supermassive black holes resulting from galactic mergers; the inspiral of intermediate mass black holes; the inspiral of compact objects into supermassive black holes; thousands of close, compact binaries in our own Galaxy; and, possibly, density fluctuations in the early universe if their (much more uncertain) amplitude permits. LISA consists of three spacecraft orbiting the Sun in a triangular formation. Gravitational waves are detected by interferometrically monitoring the 5 million kilometer separations between free-falling reference masses within the spacecraft. LISA employs technology from Â"drag-freeÂ" control systems, spaceborne accelerometers, microthrusters, interferometric distance-ranging and precision measurements to measure strains of 10-23 over very long baselines.

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