LISA Science Documents

• Science case document (prepared for the NRC BEPAC Jan 2007); see also the final report (2007) by the NAS's Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee (BEPAC)
  

• Science requirements document

LISA Data Analysis

• A LISA Data-Analysis Primer (Vallisneri, Dec 2008)
  
• LISA Data Analysis Status (for NRC BEPAC, Jan 2007)
  
• LISA data issues task force report (2007)
  

LISA Pathfinder

• LISA Pathfinder (McNamara et al., 2008)
  

LISA measurement approach and technology

• Space-based gravitational wave detection with LISA (Shaddock, 2008)
  
• Achieving the Very Low End of the LISA Sensitivity Band (Merkowitz, 2006)
  
• Achieving the Mid-Low End of the LISA Band (Vitale et al., 2006)
  
• Laser Development for LISA (Trobs et al., 2006)
  
• Time-Delay Interferometry and LISA's Sensitivity to Sinusoidal Gravitational Waves (Tinto et al., 2002)
  

Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee (BEPAC) final report (2007)

LISA Review for Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee (2006)

Craig Hogan & Karsten Danzmann

PDF file (12 MB)

Early (pre-phase A) LISA study documents

• LISA technology - concept, status, prospects (April 2003) (K. Danzmann & A. Rudiger)
• LISA TRIP Report (Feb 2003)
• LISA mission study overview (2001) (A. Hammesfahr, (2001), CQG, 18, 4045)
• LISA System and Technology Study Report (2000) contains results from the ESA Phase A study of LISA (2000). It is part of the current LISA reference architecture.
• LISA Pre Phase A Report (1998)Report presented by the LISA study team (1998)