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LISA animations

The LISA Movie

This animation from AEI-Hannover shows the design and operating mode of LISA. You will see the launch of three spacecraft with a Delta rocket, separation, orbit deployment, initiation of the laser beams as well as some detailed views inside the LISA satellites.

Animations of the LISA spacecraft in orbit around the Sun


Credit: W. Folkner (JPL)

Credit: W. Folkner (JPL)

Credit: Mike Sandford (RAL)

Credit: Mike Sandford (RAL)

High resolution versions of movies 3 and 4 are available from Mike Sandford.

LISA spacecraft orbiting the Earth, showing separation from the propulsion unit

Credit: Mike Sandford (RAL)

Animation of LISA and a passing gravitational wave

Credit: W. Folkner (JPL)

Gravitational waves


Credit: W. Folkner (JPL)

Credit: W. Folkner (JPL)

Field lines from a stationary, moving and accelerated source

Stationary
Moving
Accelerated
Credit: T. Creighton

Linear and circular gravitational wave polarization

Linear
Circular
Credit: T. Creighton

Three nearly co-located test particles orbiting a Kerr black hole

By T. Creighton: GIF, MPEG-2.

Black-hole collisions in the close approximation limit

By G. Khanna: side view, top view (quicktime).