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LISA - observing gravitational waves in space

LISA will be a large-scale space mission designed to detect one of the most elusive phenomena in astronomy - gravitational waves. With LISA we will be able to observe the entire universe directly with gravitational waves, learning about the formation of structure and galaxies, stellar evolution, the early universe, and the structure and nature of spacetime itself.

The LISA Pathfinder Mission successfully paved the way for the LISA mission by demonstrating the key technologies for a large gravitational wave observatory in space. The results show that LISA Pathfinder is working to a precision better than required for LISA. The LISA Pathfinder mission was launched on 3rd December 2015 and ended in July 2017. 

The LISA Consortium

The LISA Consortium is committed to supporting the LISA mission. It includes all the main investigators involved in the highly successful LISA Pathfinder mission, a number of scientists who worked on the ground-based LIGO, Virgo, and GEO projects, and a number who worked on the Laser Ranging Interferometer on the GRACE Follow-On mission, thus making full use of the expertise accumulated so far. The LISA Consortium proposed and submitted the white paper The Gravitational Universe which was accepted for the ESA L3 slot.

If you are a scientist and wish to contribute to the LISA mission, use this scientist registration form.

Latest news and consortium activities

Date Title Summary
Jul 17, 2015
ESA: Inside LISA Pathfinder ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission is a technology demonstrator that will pave the way for...
Apr 18, 2016
No showstoppers: GOAT reports on space-based gravitational wave observatory In the final report now delivered to ESA, the Gravitational Observatory Advisory Team...
Aug 29, 2013
LISA Pathfinder: from CAD models to ready-to-fly hardware Optical bench integrated into the core assembly LISA Pathfinder space mission reached...
Sep 01, 2015
LISA Pathfinder on the way to launch The satellite is completed LISA Pathfinder (LPF), the test mission to demonstrate new...
Jan 25, 2018
LISA PATHFINDER WINS AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY AWARD ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission has been honoured with the 2017 Space Technology Award of...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topic Imagesort descending Title
Jan 29, 2024
Conferences Gravity and Cosmology 2024
Dec 11, 2023
Conferences Future Perspectives on Primordial Black Holes, December 11-13 2023, Rome
Sep 28, 2023
Positions Grant 2year postdoc position for ET: Precision polarimetry for the development of third generation gravitational interferometers
Oct 11, 2016
Papers Distinguishing between formation channels for binary black holes with LISA
Nov 13, 2023
Conferences Fourth European Physical Society Conference on Gravitation: Black Holes, November 13-15, 2023, Valencia
Sep 12, 2023
Positions PhD position in Gravitational Wave Follow-up at LMU Munich
Papers Perturbation method in the assessment of radiation reaction in the capture of stars by black holes
Dec 06, 2022
Positions PhD and postdoctoral positions in Continuous Gravitational Wave research at AEI Hannover
Oct 04, 2023
Conferences 2023 Lunar GW Workshop: Merging Lunar Exploration with Multi-Messenger Revolution, October 4-6 2023, Nashville
Sep 19, 2023
Positions Postdoc position in computational relativistic astrophysics and numerical relativity at Caltech
Apr 30, 2009
Papers Assembly of Supermassive Black Holes at High Redshifts
Apr 05, 2023
Positions Professor in Asteroseismology, Binary Evolution & Gravitational Wave Progenitors at KU Leuven
Aug 26, 2024
Conferences Black Holes Inside and Out, August 26-30 2024, Copenhagen
Mar 21, 2017
Papers Reconstructing the dark sector interaction with LISA
Jul 25, 2023
Positions Post-doctoral Researcher Position at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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