The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission

Author

Folkner, W.M. ; Horowitz, S.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

7

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

7

Abstract

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is designed to detect and study low-frequency gravitational radiation. The types of exciting astrophysical sources potentially visible to LISA include extragalactic massive black hole binaries at cosmological distances, binary systems composed of a compact star and a massive black hole, Galactic neutron star-black hole binaries, and background radiation from the Big Bang. LISA will also observe Galactic binary systems which are known to exist

Keywords

gravitational wave detectors; laser beam applications; light interferometers; space vehicles; 1 AU; Big Bang; Galactic binary systems; Galactic neutron star-black hole binaries; LISA; Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission; background radiation; compact stars; exciting astrophysical sources; extragalactic massive black hole binaries; gravitational waves; low-frequency gravitational radiation; massive black hole; Assembly; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency; Optical interferometry; Orbits; Radiation detectors; Space missions; Space technology; Space vehicles; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2001, IEEE Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6599-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2001.931445

Filename

931445