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LISA - observing gravitational waves in space

LISA will be a large-scale space mission designed to detect one of the most elusive phenomena in astronomy - gravitational waves. With LISA we will be able to observe the entire universe directly with gravitational waves, learning about the formation of structure and galaxies, stellar evolution, the early universe, and the structure and nature of spacetime itself.

The LISA Pathfinder Mission successfully paved the way for the LISA mission by demonstrating the key technologies for a large gravitational wave observatory in space. The results show that LISA Pathfinder is working to a precision better than required for LISA. The LISA Pathfinder mission was launched on 3rd December 2015 and ended in July 2017. 

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
May 04, 2022
LISA reaches a crucial milestone The future gravitational-wave observatory in space completes a rigorous review LISA, the...
Nov 04, 2021
US National Academy of Sciences highlights LISA as a “New Window on the Dynamic Universe” Today, the US National Academy of Sciences has noted the important presence in the NASA...
Apr 09, 2021
LISA Pathfinder - A Space Saga This series of short clips takes you back 5 years ago and lets you relive LISA Pathfinder...
Sep 01, 2020
The 13th International LISA Symposium September 1-3, 2020 The 13th International LISA Symposium featured a program dedicated to gravitational wave...
Jun 03, 2020
New movie about LISA, the first gravitational wave observatory in space On the occasion of the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society the LISA...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topic Image Title
Jan 29, 2024
Conferences Gravity and Cosmology 2024
Dec 02, 2023
Conferences Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: The dawn of a revolutionary era, December 2-5 2023, San Pedro, Belize
Sep 25, 2023
Conferences Kavli-Villum Summer School on Gravitational Waves, 25-30 Sep 2023, Corfu, Greece
Sep 20, 2023
Conferences Asymmetric Binaries meet Fundamental Astro-Physics, 20-22 September at GSSI in L’Aquila
Sep 11, 2023
Conferences ISAPP 2023 Texel - Exploring the Dark Universe: From Particles to Galaxies, 11 - 17 Sep 2023
Sep 11, 2023
Conferences COSMO'23, 11-15 September, Madrid
Aug 28, 2023
Conferences TAUP 2023, August 28 - September 1, Vienna
Aug 20, 2023
Conferences Gravitational waves meet effective field theories, August 20-26, Benasque, Spain
Aug 14, 2023
Conferences Gravitational Waves meet Amplitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, August 14 – September 1, 2023, ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo
Aug 09, 2023
Conferences Fundamental Physics with LISA, Niels Bohr Institute, 9–11 August 2023
Jul 26, 2023
Conferences ICRC 2023 Conference, July 26-August 3, 2023, Nagoya, Japan
Jul 23, 2023
Conferences Understanding cosmological observations, July 23 - August 5, Benasque
Jul 19, 2023
Conferences Data analysis challenges for stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds 19-21 July 2023 at CERN
Jul 17, 2023
Conferences 15th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, July 17-21, 2023
Jul 17, 2023
Conferences North American Einstein Toolkit School and Workshop, July 17-21 2023 at RIT

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