LISA Definition Study Report

Abstract

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves in the 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz frequency band which will enable the study of a vast number of objects ranging from Galactic binaries and stellar mass black holes in the Milky Way, to distant massive black-hole mergers and the expansion of the Universe. This definition study report, or Red Book, presents a summary of the very large body of work that has been undertaken on the LISA mission over the LISA definition phase.

155 pages, with executive summary and table of contents

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• The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics
• Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions in LISA: reconstruction pipeline and physics interpretation
• The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna: Mission Studies and Science Case
• Fast inspirals and the treatment of orbital resonances
• Stellar-mass black-hole binaries in LISA: characteristics and complementarity with current-generation interferometers
• Gravitational-wave background in bouncing models from semi-classical, quantum and string gravity
• Fast Likelihood-free Reconstruction of Gravitational Wave Backgrounds
• Assessing the Impact of Unequal Noises and Foreground Modeling on SGWB Reconstruction with LISA
• Exploring Dark Forces with Multimessenger Studies of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
• Theory-agnostic searches for non-gravitational modes in black hole ringdown
• Gravitational wave lensing: probing Fuzzy Dark Matter with LISA
• A multi-parameter expansion for the evolution of asymmetric binaries in astrophysical environments
• Cosmic wallflowers: the circumgalactic origins of isolated ultra-compact star clusters at $z>7$
• Circularly Polarized Gravitational Wave Background Search with a Network of Space-borne Triangular Detectors
• Identifying the Quadrupolar Nature of Gravitational Wave Background through Space-based Missions
• Quasinormal Modes from EFT of Black Hole Perturbations in Vector-Tensor Gravity
• Gravitational waves from a first-order phase transition of the inflaton
• Estimating the gravitational wave background anisotropy: a Bayesian approach boosted by cross-correlation angular power spectrum
• Identifying Host Galaxies of Binary Black Hole Mergers with Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detector Networks
• Optimal design of interpolation methods for time-delay interferometry
• Reconsidering the consistent use of precessing, higher order multipole models for gravitational wave analyses