LISA International Science Team

LISA overview and mission documents

LISA science documents

• Astro2010 Science White Papers
• Science case document (prepared for the NRC BEPAC Jan 2007)
• LISA science requirements document

• Reviews of low-frequency gravitational wave science

• Intermediate and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals - Astrophysics, Science Applications, and Detection using LISA (Amaro-Seone et al, 2008)
• The Galactic Gravitational Wave Foreground (Nelemans, 2008). Describes the science of ultra-compact binaries.
• Fundamental Physics with LISA (Schutz, 2008).

LISA measurement approach and technology

• Space-based gravitational wave detection with LISA (Shaddock, 2008)
• Achieving the Very Low End of the LISA Sensitivity Band (Merkowitz, 2006)
• Achieving the Mid-Low End of the LISA Band (Vitale et al, 2006)
• Laser Development for LISA (Trobs et al, 2006)
• Time-Delay Interferometry and LISA's Sensitivity to Sinusoidal Gravitational Waves (Tinto et al., 2002) This white paper covers the subject of Time-Delay Interferometry and the derivation of the LISA Sensitivity.

LISA data analysis documents

• A LISA Data-Analysis Primer (Vallisneri, Dec 2008) also, (arXiv version)
• LISA Data Analysis Status (for the BEPAC, Jan 2007)
• LISA data issues task force report (2007)

LISA Pathfinder

• LISA Pathfinder (McNamara et al., 2008)

LISA Symposium Proceedings

• An extensive collection of review and technical articles can be found in the Proceedings of the 6th LISA Symposium .

LISA early (pre-phase A) study documents

• LISA technology - concept, status, prospects (April 2003) (K. Danzmann & A. Rudiger)
• LISA TRIP Report (Feb 2003)
• LISA mission study overview (2001) (A. Hammesfahr, (2001), CQG, 18, 4045)
• LISA System and Technology Study Report (2000) contains results from the ESA Phase A study of LISA (2000). It is part of the current LISA reference architecture.
• LISA Pre Phase A Report (1998)Report presented by the LISA study team (1998)