LISA and the Gravitational Wave Universe

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Sep 2003

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TEXAS IN TUSCANY. Proceedings of the XXI Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. Held 9-13 December 2002 in Florence, Italy. Edi

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Gravitational Waves, Lisa

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The ESA-NASA joint mission LISA will open the gravitational-wave window to low frequencies, between roughly 0.1 mHz and 0.1 Hz. Sources of radiation at these frequencies are very different from those that the ground-based detectors are expecting to see. LISA can uncover the history of the formation of the giant black holes in galactic centers; it will explore the compact binary population of our Galaxy; it will test general relativity and its description of black holes with unprecedented accuracy; and it has a good chance of revealing a background of gravitational radiation created in the Big Bang. In this lecture I will review these sources of gravitational waves and set them in the context of the physics of gravitational-wave sources and the design of the LISA mission.

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