NASA NTRS · 20120012980
Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Science with eLISA/ NGO
Abstract
We review the expected science performance of the New Gravitational-Wave Observatory (NGO, a.k.a. eLISA), a mission under study by the European Space Agency for launch in the early 2020s. eLISA will survey the low-frequency gravitational-wave sky (from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz), detecting and characterizing a broad variety of systems and events throughout the Universe, including the coalescences of massive black holes brought together by galaxy mergers; the inspirals of stellar-mass black holes and compact stars into central galactic black holes; several millions of ultracompact binaries, both detached and mass transferring, in the Galaxy; and possibly unforeseen sources such as the relic gravitational-wave radiation from the early Universe. eLISA's high signal-to-noise measurements will provide new insight into the structure and history of the Universe, and they will test general relativity in its strong-field dynamical regime.
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Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Aoudia, Sofiane, Babak, Stanislav, Binetruy, Pierre, Berti, Emanuele, Bohe, Alejandro, Caprini, Chiara, Colpi, Monica, Cornish, Neil J., Danzmann, Karsten, Dufaux, Jean-Francois, Gair, Jonathan, Jennrich, Oliver, Jetzer, Philippe, Klein, Antoine, Lang, Ryan N., Lobo, Alberto, Littenberg, Tyson, McWilliams, Sean T., Nelemans, Gijs, Petiteau, Antoine, Porter, Edward K., Schutz, Bernard F., Stebbins, Robin, Vallisneri, Michele. 2011-07-10. Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Science with eLISA/ NGO. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120012980
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