LISA
The future LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) space mission is an ESA project to detect low-frequency gravitational waves (0.01 Hz). This will be achieved by observing interference between laser signals emitted and received by three spacecraft 2 million km apart. The mission is scheduled for launch in 2034.
Although LUX researchers are not involved in building the instrument, they are studying the astrophysical sources that LISA is expected to observe. These include merger events involving supermassive black holes. Observing such events will have a major impact on our knowledge of the Universe, in particular by enabling us to constrain the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Vue d’artiste de la mission LISA
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