Questions tagged [lisa]
Questions about observational gravitational wave astronomy relating to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna or LISA as well as the earlier LISA Pathfinder and proposed eLISA.
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Could "gravitational atom” black hole be detected using observation of gravitational microlensing?
D. Baumann et al., published the article hypothesizing existence of "gravitational atom” black holes (not sure whether those are just stellar ones or also those could be supermassive black holes ...
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Expected nature of LISA's data; will it be more like a forest of static peaks, or a series of individual events?
@RobJeffries' clear answer to Which things “LIGO can see things that LISA can't”, and vice-versa? explains that the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna or LISA will only be sensitive to gravitational ...
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Which things can LIGO see that LISA can't, and vice-versa?
CNET's Astronomers discover two ferociously fast stars locked in a death spiral quotes Kevin Burdge, lead author on the new paper in Nature General relativistic orbital decay in a seven-minute-...
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Can't pulsars and stars be used for gravitational wave measurement?
Suppose that we collected photons from a distant star, and they arrive regularly at 15 photons every microsecond onto a CCD, when a gravity wave bends space time, wouldn't the regular 15 photons graph ...
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Giant variation of the proposed eLISA mission using reflectors on Earth and the Moon possible?
I was thinking about the proposed ESA mission eLISA, which is essentially a space version of the LIGO experiment, and it occurred to me that trailing three satellites behind the Earth's orbit seemed ...
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Will we see gravitational waves from the big bang? [duplicate]
This is almost identical to an unanswered question already asked, but I want to put it a different way. The announced LIGO event was from a localized source. I assume that gravitational waves from the ...
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What will eLISA be trying to observe?
eLisa - Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.
A LISA-like mission is designed to directly observe gravitational waves, which are distortions of space-time travelling at the speed of light. ...
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