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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
May 04, 2015
LISA Pathfinder's scientific payload completely assembled The assembly of the LISA Pathfinder satellite is on track for the launch on top of a Vega...
Feb 11, 2016
Gravitational waves observed for first time ever! LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from...
Apr 07, 2013
Ready for launch: Heart of LISA Pathfinder space mission tested successfully The optical bench of the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission is currently being extensively...
Apr 09, 2021
LISA Pathfinder - A Space Saga This series of short clips takes you back 5 years ago and lets you relive LISA Pathfinder...
Jun 25, 2013
Latest LISA Pathfinder hardware delivery is 'Jewel in the Crown' A team of scientists from the University of Glasgow has successfully delivered a...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topic Imagesort descending Title
Mar 11, 2024
Conferences LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Meeting, March 11-14, 2024 at LSU
May 11, 2000
Papers Fast and Accurate Computation Tools for Gravitational Waveforms from Binary Systems with any Orbital Eccentricity
Positions PhD Scholarships – Statistics and Gravitational Wave Science for LISA, New Zealand
Dec 15, 2023
Positions PhD position in Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter, and Quantum Field Theory, London, UK
Jun 17, 2024
Conferences IPTA Student Week 2024, June 17-21, University of Milano-Bicocca
Apr 24, 2014
Papers Data Analysis Methods for Testing Alternative Theories of Gravity with LISA Pathfinder
Jun 17, 2024
Conferences 27th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity, June 17-21 2024, Singapore
Mar 04, 2024
Conferences Call for Registration: AHEAD 2020 Workshop on synergies between astrophysics and geoscience
Oct 11, 2016
Papers Distinguishing between formation channels for binary black holes with LISA
Nov 21, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jan 17, 2024
Positions PostDoc in Gravitational Waves at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Papers Perturbation method in the assessment of radiation reaction in the capture of stars by black holes
Positions PhD positions available at the UWA Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Group
Jan 05, 2024
Positions Electrical Engineer or Physicist for electronic instrumentation for gravitational wave detectors and space missions at University of Hamburg
Jun 24, 2024
Conferences IPTA Science Meeting 2024, June 24-31, Sexten, Italy

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