Future missions/programs
The
Beyond Einstein program has three linked elements which advance science and technology towards two visions: to detect
directly
gravitational wave signals from the earliest possible moments of the Big Bang, and to image the event horizon of a black hole.
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
(LISA)
will open a new window on the Universe through the study of low-frequency gravitational waves. LISA consists of three spacecraft
orbiting the Sun in a triangular configuration with a baseline of five million kilometers between spacecraft.
LISA will detect low-frequency gravitational waves by measuring the changes in the relative velocity of two approximately
freely-falling proof masses within each spacecraft.
See the AstroGravS archive for mock-LISA data, liturature and waveform catalogs.
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