Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO

Pau Amaro-Seoane; Sofiane Aoudia; Stanislav Babak; Pierre Binétruy; Emanuele Berti; Alejandro Bohé; Chiara Caprini; Monica Colpi; Neil J. Cornish; Karsten Danzmann; Jean François Dufaux; Jonathan Gair; Oliver Jennrich; Philippe Jetzer; Antoine Klein; Ryan N. Lang; Alberto Lobo; Tyson Littenberg; Sean T. McWilliams; Gijs Nelemans; Antoine Petiteau; Edward K. Porter; Bernard F. Schutz; Alberto Sesana; Robin Stebbins; Tim Sumner; Michele Vallisneri; Stefano Vitale; Marta Volonteri; Henry Ward

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/29/12/124016

Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Sofiane Aoudia, Stanislav Babak, Pierre Binétruy, Emanuele Berti, Alejandro Bohé, Chiara Caprini, Monica Colpi, Neil J. Cornish, Karsten Danzmann, Jean François Dufaux, Jonathan Gair, Oliver Jennrich, Philippe Jetzer, Antoine Klein, Ryan N. Lang, Alberto Lobo, Tyson Littenberg, Sean T. McWilliams, Gijs NelemansAntoine Petiteau, Edward K. Porter, Bernard F. Schutz, Alberto Sesana, Robin Stebbins, Tim Sumner, Michele Vallisneri, Stefano Vitale, Marta Volonteri, Henry Ward

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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 0.1mHz to 1Hz), 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 ultra-compact binaries, both detached and mass transferring, in the Galaxy; and possibly unforeseen sources such as the relic gravitational-wave radiation from the early Universe. eLISAs 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. © 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Original language	English
Article number	124016
Journal	Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume	29
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/29/12/124016
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2012

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Amaro-Seoane, P., Aoudia, S., Babak, S., Binétruy, P., Berti, E., Bohé, A., Caprini, C., Colpi, M., Cornish, N. J., Danzmann, K., Dufaux, J. F., Gair, J., Jennrich, O., Jetzer, P., Klein, A., Lang, R. N., Lobo, A., Littenberg, T., McWilliams, S. T., ... Ward, H. (2012). Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 29(12), Article 124016. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/29/12/124016

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