The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: Unveiling the Millihertz Gravitational Wave Sky
LISA - Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: Unveiling the Millihertz Gravitational Wave Sky
The first terrestrial Gravitational Wave (GW) interferometers [1, 2] have dramatically underscored the scientific value of observing the Universe through an entirely different window – and of folding this new channel of information with traditional astronomical data for a multimessenger view [3, 4, 5, 6]. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will broaden the reach of GW astronomy by conducting the first survey of the millihertz GW sky, detecting tens of thousands of individual astrophysical sources ranging from whitedwarf binaries in our own galaxy to mergers of massive black holes (MBHs) at redshifts extending beyond the epoch of reionization. These observations will inform – and transform – our understanding of the end state of stellar evolution, MBH birth, and the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes through cosmic time.
