This is the latest of the amazing reviews coming out on the LISA space mission. Short post to say that the LISA signal modeling is challenging but so fascinating. Everything you ever wanted to know it’s in here.
N. Afshordi, et al. (105 authors incl. D. Gerosa).
arXiv:2311.01300 [gr-qc].
Another short post today, but it’s not just astrophysics that will be awesome with LISA, but fundamental physics too! Here is the white paper of the relevant LISA working group. Get ready to test your wildest ideas, my theory friend!
K. G. Arun, et al. (141 authors incl. D. Gerosa).
Living Reviews in Relativity 25 (2022) 4. arXiv:2205.01597 [gr-qc].
LISA astrophysics is awesome and everything you might ever want to know is written this paper. Sorry for the short blog post, but there isn’t much else to say really… A huge thanks to all the captains that put this massive community-wide effort together.
P. Amaro-Seoane, et al. (155 authors incl. D. Gerosa).
Living Reviews in Relativity 26 (2022) 2. arXiv:2203.06016 [gr-qc].
The quest of finding their astrophysical origin of merging black-hole binaries is now a key open problem in modern astrophysics. Stars are the natural progenitor of black holes: at the end of their lives, the core collapses and leaves behind a compact object. But once those “first-generation” black holes are around, they can potentially meet again and form “second generation” LIGO events. I first got interested in this problem in 2017 and, together with many many others researchers in the community, we explored the consequences of this “hierarchical merger” scenario in terms of both gravitational-wave physics and astrophysical environments. In this Nature Astronomy review article, Maya and I tried to condense all this body of work into a few pages. The result is (we hope) a broad and informed overview of this emerging research strand, with a whopping number of more than 270 citations! Hope you like it.
D. Gerosa, M. Fishbach.
Nature Astronomy 5 (2021) 749-760. arXiv:2105.03439 [gr-qc].
Review article. Covered by press release.
LISA is going to be cool. And not just for your astro-related dreams. Theoretical physicists can have fun too! This community-wide manifesto illustrates just how cool things are going to be with LISA. LISA will constitute a major milestone to test gravity, cosmology, the nature of black holes, etc. A big thanks to all those involved.
E. Barausse, et al. (320 authors incl. D. Gerosa).
General Relativity and Gravitation 52 (2020) 8, 81. arXiv:2001.09793 [gr-qc].
This is a massive review born out of the European COST Action CA16104 Gravitational waves, black holes and fundamental physics (GWverse). We summarize the status of the field of gravitational-wave astronomy and lie down a roadmap for the immediate future.
L. Barack, et al. (199 authors incl. D. Gerosa).
Classical and Quantum Gravity 36 (2019) 143001. arXiv:1806.05195 [gr-qc].
Editor’s coverage in physicsworld.com.
A massive review on testing gravity, which came out of a nice meeting we had at University of Mississippi in January 2014. See the numbers.
E. Berti, et al. (53 authors incl. D. Gerosa).
Classical and Quantum Gravity 32 (2015) 243001. Topical Review. arXiv:1501.07274 [gr-qc].