Unveiling the gravitational universe at μ-Hz frequencies
- Sesana, Alberto
- Korsakova, Natalia
- Sedda, Manuel,
- Baibhav, Vishal
- Barausse, Enrico
- Barke, Simon
- Berti, Emanuele
- Bonetti, Matteo
- Capelo, Pedro,
- Caprini, Chiara
- Garcia-Bellido, Juan
- Haiman, Zoltan
- Jani, Karan
- Jennrich, Oliver
- Johansson, Peter,
- Khan, Fazeel,
- Korol, Valeriya
- Lamberts, Astrid
- Lupi, Alessandro
- Mangiagli, Alberto
- Mayer, Lucio
- Nardini, Germano
- Pacucci, Fabio
- Petiteau, Antoine
- Raccanelli, Alvise
- Rajendran, Surjeet
- Regan, John
- Shao, Lijing
- Spallicci, Alessandro D. A. M.
- Tamanini, Nicola
- Volonteri, Marta
- Warburton, Niels
- Wong, Kaze
- Zumalacarregui, Miguel
DOIAbstract
International audienceWe propose a space-based interferometer surveying the gravitational wave (GW) sky in the milli-Hz to μ-Hz frequency range. By the 2040s, the μ-Hz frequency band, bracketed in between the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and pulsar timing arrays, will constitute the largest gap in the coverage of the astrophysically relevant GW spectrum. Yet many outstanding questions related to astrophysics and cosmology are best answered by GW observations in this band. We show that a μ-Hz GW detector will be a truly overarching observatory for the scientific community at large, greatly extending the potential of LISA. Conceived to detect massive black hole binaries from their early inspiral with high signal-to-noise ratio, a...
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