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An Overview of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

D. A. Shaddock
D. A. Shaddock*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA Centre for Gravitational Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200. Email: daniel.shaddock@jpl.nasa.gov
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Abstract

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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves with frequencies from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. This article provides a brief overview of LISA's science goals followed by a tutorial of the LISA measurement concept.

Keywords

gravitational wavestechniques: interferometric
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 2009 , pp. 128 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2009

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