LISA Pathfinder tracera la voie vers la mission eLISA en testant, dans l’espace, le concept (les principes ?) de la détection d’ondes gravitationnelles.

L'endroit le plus silencieux du système solaire

LISA Pathfinder (LPF) placera deux masses d’épreuve en "chute libre" quasi parfaite, contrôlera et mesurera leur mouvement relatif avec une précision inégalée. Ceci sera effectué grâce à des thechnologies innovantes telles que des senseurs inertiels, un système de métrologie laser, un système à compensation de trainée et des micro-propulseurs délivrant des micro-Newton. L’ensemble de ces masses d’épreuve et leur environnement constitueront probablement un des endroits les plus "calmes" du système solaire.

Toutes ces technologies sont non seulement essentielles pour la mission eLISA, elles seront également à la base de toutes les missions qui voudront tester la théorie de la relativitié générale d’Einstein.

LPF sera lancé en novembre 2015.

The LISA Consortium

The LISA Consortium is committed to supporting the LISA mission. It includes all the main investigators involved in the highly successful LISA Pathfinder mission, a number of scientists who worked on the ground-based LIGO, Virgo, and GEO projects, and a number who worked on the Laser Ranging Interferometer on the GRACE Follow-On mission, thus making full use of the expertise accumulated so far. The LISA Consortium proposed and submitted the white paper The Gravitational Universe which was accepted for the ESA L3 slot.

If you are a scientist and wish to contribute to the LISA mission, use this scientist registration form.

Latest news and consortium activities

Date Title Summary
Mar 06, 2020
European Astronomical Society: LISA Pathfinder Principal Investigator Stefano Vitale awarded the 2020 Tycho Brahe Medal The European Astronomical Society (EAS) awards the 2020 Tycho Brahe Medal to Prof....
Dec 12, 2019
NASA Award for AEI Researchers: US space agency honors German team’s contributions to laser instrument on board GRACE Follow-On A group of 47 researchers in Germany received a NASA award for their teamwork on the...
Nov 28, 2019
ESA ministers commit to biggest ever budget ESA’s Council at Ministerial Level, Space19+, has concluded in Seville, Spain, with the...
Sep 12, 2019
2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize for Samaya Nissanke The LISA Consortium congratulates science team member Dr. Samaya Nissanke, assistant...
Jul 26, 2019
Dead Stars Found Whipping Around Each Other in Minutes Two dead stars have been spotted whipping around each other every seven minutes. The rare...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topic Image Title
Jul 11, 2023
Conferences Multi-messenger Continuous Gravitational Waves, July 11 – 13, 2023, Amsterdam, NL
Jul 10, 2023
Conferences European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, July 10–14, 2023, Kraków, Poland
Jul 10, 2023
Conferences Gravitational-wave populations: what's next? July 10-14 2023 at University of Milano-Bicocca
Jul 10, 2023
Conferences Workshop "Infinity on a Gridshell", Copenhagen, Denmark, July 10-13 2023
Jul 03, 2023
Conferences 2nd MaNiTou Summer School on Gravitational Waves, 3.–8. Juli 2023, Nice/Valrose
Jul 03, 2023
Conferences 26th Capra Meeting 3-7-July 2023 at The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Jul 03, 2023
Conferences XV International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology, July 3-7 2023, Gyeongju, Korea
Jun 20, 2023
Conferences The Transient and Variable Universe Conference, 20-22 June 2023 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jun 14, 2023
Conferences Connecting the dots, June 14 – 16, 2023 at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Jun 05, 2023
Conferences Thematic school GWsNS-2023: Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars, 5.–9. June 2023, Aussois, France
Jun 05, 2023
Conferences 1st Trieste meeting on the physics of gravitational waves, June 5-9 2023 at SISSA
May 27, 2023
Conferences 10th KAGRA International Workshop (KIW-10), May 27-30, 2023, Taiwan
May 23, 2023
Positions Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral position in Gravitational Wave Physics at IFAE Barcelona
May 23, 2023
Positions PhD on the Preparation and Exploitation of Euclid data for Gravitational Wave cosmology in Aix-Marseille & Rome
May 21, 2023
Conferences GWADW 2023, May 21-27, La Biodola (Elba)

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