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arxiv: 1907.06482 · v2 · pith:IR4WML5Snew · submitted 2019-07-15 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.HE· gr-qc

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: Unveiling the Millihertz Gravitational Wave Sky

John Baker , Jillian Bellovary , Peter L. Bender , Emanuele Berti , Robert Caldwell , Jordan Camp , John W. Conklin , Neil Cornish
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Curt Cutler Ryan DeRosa Michael Eracleous Elizabeth C. Ferrara Samuel Francis Martin Hewitson Kelly Holley-Bockelmann Ann Hornschemeier Craig Hogan Brittany Kamai Bernard J. Kelly Joey Shapiro Key Shane L. Larson Jeff Livas Sridhar Manthripragada Kirk McKenzie Sean T. McWilliams Guido Mueller Priyamvada Natarajan Kenji Numata Norman Rioux Shannon R. Sankar Jeremy Schnittman David Shoemaker Deirdre Shoemaker Jacob Slutsky Robert Spero Robin Stebbins Ira Thorpe Michele Vallisneri Brent Ware Peter Wass Anthony Yu John Ziemer
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LISA will conduct the first survey of the millihertz gravitational wave sky by detecting tens of thousands of sources from white-dwarf binaries to distant black hole mergers.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This review paper presents the case for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna as a space-based observatory targeting gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency range. It establishes that LISA would detect a large population of individual astrophysical sources, including white-dwarf binaries in the Milky Way and mergers of massive black holes at high redshifts. These detections are projected to supply direct information on the final stages of stellar evolution, the formation and growth of massive black holes, and the linked history of galaxies and black holes. The paper also notes LISA's potential reach to intermediate-mass black holes and certain cosmological signals such as those from cosmic strings.

Core claim

LISA will broaden gravitational wave astronomy by conducting the first survey of the millihertz gravitational wave sky, detecting tens of thousands of individual astrophysical sources ranging from white-dwarf binaries in our own galaxy to mergers of massive black holes at redshifts extending beyond the epoch of reionization, thereby informing our understanding of the end state of stellar evolution, massive black hole birth, and the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes through cosmic time, while also offering the possibility of detecting signals from intermediate-mass black holes and exotic cosmological sources such as inflationary fields and cosmic string cusps.

What carries the argument

The LISA space-based interferometer array, which measures gravitational wave strains in the millihertz band inaccessible to ground-based detectors.

Load-bearing premise

The mission will be funded, launched, and will reach the sensitivity and operational performance needed to detect the projected sources.

What would settle it

If LISA launches but detects far fewer than tens of thousands of sources or none of the high-redshift massive black hole mergers after several years of operation, the survey projections would be falsified.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1907.06482 by Ann Hornschemeier, Anthony Yu, Bernard J. Kelly, Brent Ware, Brittany Kamai, Craig Hogan, Curt Cutler, David Shoemaker, Deirdre Shoemaker, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Emanuele Berti, Guido Mueller, Ira Thorpe, Jacob Slutsky, Jeff Livas, Jeremy Schnittman, Jillian Bellovary, Joey Shapiro Key, John Baker, John W. Conklin, John Ziemer, Jordan Camp, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Kenji Numata, Kirk McKenzie, Martin Hewitson, Michael Eracleous, Michele Vallisneri, Neil Cornish, Norman Rioux, Peter L. Bender, Peter Wass, Priyamvada Natarajan, Robert Caldwell, Robert Spero, Robin Stebbins, Ryan DeRosa, Samuel Francis, Sean T. McWilliams, Shane L. Larson, Shannon R. Sankar, Sridhar Manthripragada.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Representative examples of LISA sources compared with the instrument sen￾sitivity. Sources and instrument sensitivity are plotted as frequency spectra of charac￾teristic GW strain. All sources are observed simultaneously and individually extracted through a global fit of the LISA time-series data [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Orbital configuration of the LISA mission. The 2.5Mkm triangular constella￾tion is inclined to the ecliptic by 60◦ and un￾dergoes a cartwheeling motion once per or￾bit. 3.1 LISA mission design At the most basic level, the LISA mea￾surement concept parallels that which has been successfully employed on LIGO and other terrestrial GW interferometers [34, 35]. A set of test masses are arranged across widely-se… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: An overview of the current LISA schedule including major project milestones. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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The first terrestrial gravitational wave interferometers have dramatically underscored the scientific value of observing the Universe through an entirely different window, and of folding this new channel of information with traditional astronomical data for a multimessenger view. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will broaden the reach of gravitational wave astronomy by conducting the first survey of the millihertz gravitational wave sky, detecting tens of thousands of individual astrophysical sources ranging from white-dwarf binaries in our own galaxy to mergers of massive black holes at redshifts extending beyond the epoch of reionization. These observations will inform - and transform - our understanding of the end state of stellar evolution, massive black hole birth, and the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes through cosmic time. LISA also has the potential to detect gravitational wave emission from elusive astrophysical sources such as intermediate-mass black holes as well as exotic cosmological sources such as inflationary fields and cosmic string cusps.

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Summary. The manuscript is an overview of the LISA space-based gravitational-wave mission. It claims that LISA will perform the first survey of the millihertz gravitational-wave sky, detecting tens of thousands of individual sources (galactic white-dwarf binaries, massive black-hole mergers out to high redshift, and potentially intermediate-mass black holes or cosmological sources) and thereby transforming understanding of stellar evolution, black-hole formation, and galaxy-black-hole co-evolution.

Significance. If the stated sensitivity and operational performance are achieved, the projected observations would open a new observational window complementary to ground-based detectors and enable multimessenger studies across a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological topics. The paper synthesizes prior design studies into a coherent science case; its value lies in this consolidation rather than in new derivations or data.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the detection numbers and redshift reach are presented as firm outcomes; a short parenthetical noting that they derive from earlier population-synthesis and sensitivity studies would make the conditional character of the projections explicit without altering the central message.

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the manuscript and for recommending acceptance. The referee accurately characterizes the paper as a synthesis of prior LISA design studies into a coherent science case, with its primary value lying in consolidation rather than new derivations.

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No significant circularity; descriptive mission concept with no derivations

full rationale

The paper is a mission concept white paper whose central content consists of conditional projections for LISA performance and science return. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivation chains appear in the provided abstract or framing. Claims are explicitly framed as expected outcomes assuming the instrument meets its design specifications, with no self-referential reduction of predictions to inputs, no self-citation load-bearing on uniqueness theorems, and no renaming of known results as new derivations. The structure is self-contained as a forward-looking description rather than an empirical or mathematical derivation.

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This is a mission proposal white paper rather than a theoretical derivation or data analysis paper. No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced or fitted in the provided abstract.

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