Waveform modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
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Afshordi, Niayesh
Akçay, Sarp
Seoane, Pau A.
Antonelli, Andrea
Aurrekoetxea, Josu C.
Barack, Leor
Barausse, Enrico
Benkel, Robert
Bernard, Laura
Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
Date Issued
October 30, 2025
Journal
Living Reviews in Relativity
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group., Afshordi, N., Akçay, S. et al. Waveform modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Living Rev Relativ 28, 9 (2025).
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Final published version
Abstract
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will expand our view to the millihertz gravitational-wave sky, where a spectacular variety of interesting new sources abound: from millions of ultra-compact binaries in our Galaxy, to mergers of massive black holes at cosmological distances; from the early inspirals of stellar-mass black holes that will ultimately venture into the ground-based detectors’ view to the death spiral of compact objects into massive black holes, and many sources in between. Central to realising LISA’s discovery potential are waveform models, the theoretical and phenomenological predictions of the pattern of gravitational waves that these sources emit. This White Paper is presented on behalf of the Waveform Working Group for the LISA Consortium. It provides a review of the current state of waveform models for LISA sources, and describes the significant challenges that must yet be overcome.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s41114-025-00056-1
