Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2012-02-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
20 pages, 8 figures, proceedings of the 9th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves. For a longer exposition of the eLISA sci
Scientific paper
We review the expected science performance of the New Gravitational-Wave Observatory (NGO, a.k.a. eLISA), a mission under study by the European Space Agency for launch in the early 2020s. eLISA will survey the low-frequency gravitational-wave sky (from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz), detecting and characterizing a broad variety of systems and events throughout the Universe, including the coalescences of massive black holes brought together by galaxy mergers; the inspirals of stellar-mass black holes and compact stars into central galactic black holes; several millions of ultracompact binaries, both detached and mass transferring, in the Galaxy; and possibly unforeseen sources such as the relic gravitational-wave radiation from the early Universe. eLISA's high signal-to-noise measurements will provide new insight into the structure and history of the Universe, and they will test general relativity in its strong-field dynamical regime.
Amaro-Seoane Pau
Aoudia Sofiane
Babak Stanislav
Berti Emanuele
Binetruy Pierre
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