Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

• DOI: 10.1007/s41114-022-00041-y
• Publication Date: 2023-03-14T13:03:23Z
• Authors: Pau Amaro-Seoane; Jeff Andrews; Manuel Arca Sedda; Abbas Askar; Quentin Baghi; Razvan Balasov; Imre Bartos; Simone S. Bavera; Jillian Bellovary; Christopher P. L....; Emanuele Berti; Stefano Bianchi; Laura Blecha; Stéphane Blondin; Tamara Bogdanović; Samuel Boissier; Matteo Bonetti; Silvia Bonoli; Elisa Bortolas; Katelyn Breivik; Pedro R. Capelo; Laurentiu Caramete; Federico Cattorini; Maria Charisi; Sylvain Chaty; Xian Chen; Martyna Chruślińska; Alvin J. K. Chua; Ross Church; Monica Colpi; Daniel D’Orazio; Camilla Danielski; Melvyn B. Davies; Pratika Dayal; Alessandra De Rosa; Andrea Derdzinski; Kyriakos Destounis; Massimo Dotti; Ioana Duţan; Irina Dvorkin; Gaia Fabj; Thierry Foglizzo; Saavik Ford; Jean-Baptiste Fouvry; Alessia Franchini; Tassos Fragos; Chris Fryer; Massimo Gaspari; Davide Gerosa; Luca Graziani; Paul Groot; Melanie Habouzit; Daryl Haggard; Zoltan Haiman; Wen-Biao Han; Alina Istrate; Peter H. Johansson; Fazeel Mahmood Khan; Tomas Kimpson; Kostas Kokkotas; Albert Kong; Valeriya Korol; Kyle Kremer; Thomas Kupfer; Astrid Lamberts; Shane Larson; Mike Lau; Dongliang Liu; Nicole Lloyd-Ronning; Giuseppe Lodato; Alessandro Lupi; Chung-Pei Ma; Tomas Maccarone; Ilya Mandel; Alberto Mangiagli; Michela Mapelli; Stéphane Mathis; Lucio Mayer; Sean McGee; Berry McKernan; M. Coleman Miller; David F. Mota; Matthew Mumpower; Syeda S. Nasim; Gijs Nelemans; Scott Noble; Fabio Pacucci; Francesca Panessa; Vasileios Paschal...; Hugo Pfister; Delphine Porquet; John Quenby; Angelo Ricarte; Friedrich K. Röpke; John Regan; Stephan Rosswog; Ashley Ruiter; Milton Ruiz; Jessie Runnoe; Raffaella Schneider; Jeremy Schnittman; Amy Secunda; Alberto Sesana; Naoki Seto; Lijing Shao; Stuart Shapiro; Carlos Sopuerta; Nicholas C. Stone; Arthur Suvorov; Nicola Tamanini; Tomas Tamfal; Thomas Tauris; Karel Temmink; John Tomsick; Silvia Toonen; Alejandro Torres-...; Martina Toscani; Antonios Tsokaros; Caner Unal; Verónica Vázquez-...; Rosa Valiante; Maurice van Putten; Jan van Roestel; Christian Vignali; Marta Volonteri; Kinwah Wu; Ziri Younsi; Shenghua Yu; Silvia Zane; Lorenz Zwick; Fabio Antonini; Vishal Baibhav; Enrico Barausse; Alexander Bonilla...; Marica Branchesi; Graziella Brandua...; Kevin Burdge; Srija Chakraborty; Jorge Cuadra; Kristen Dage; Benjamin Davis; Selma E. de Mink; Roberto Decarli; Daniela Doneva; Stephanie Escoffier; Poshak Gandhi; Francesco Haardt; Carlos O. Lousto; Samaya Nissanke; Jason Nordhaus; Richard O’Shaughn...; Simon Portegies Z...; Adam Pound; Fabian Schussler; Olga Sergijenko; Alessandro Spallicci; Daniele Vernieri; Alejandro Vigna-G...
• Keywords: Astrofísica; Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous); Astronomy; Black holes; Gravitational waves; Stellar remnants; Multi-messenger; Extreme mass ratio in-spirals; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies; Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena; Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Astrophysics; 01 natural sciences; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; Physics, Particles & Fields; MOCCA-SURVEY DATABASE; Stellar remnants; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SOURCES; astro-ph.HE; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Black holes; Extreme mass ratio in-spirals; Gravitational waves; Multi-messenger; Stellar remnants; Black holes; Physics; Black holes; Extreme mass ratio in-spirals; Gravitational waves; Multi-messenger; Stellar remnants;; WHITE-DWARF BINARIES; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Physical Sciences; astro-ph.CO; MASSIVE BLACK-HOLE; Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena; Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics; Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; Gravitational waves--Measurement; astro-ph.SR; Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); gr-qc; astro-ph.GA; FOS: Physical sciences; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); 530; TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS; Gravitational waves; [SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]; 0103 physical sciences; Multi-messenger; Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter; Extreme mass ratio in-spirals; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Science & Technology; 500; AM-CVN STARS; Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies; Gravitational waves--Detection; DOUBLE NEUTRON-STARS; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA); Astronomia; Laser interferometry; Black holes (Astronomy); X-RAY BINARIES; COMMON-ENVELOPE EVOLUTION; astro-ph.IM; QC170-197

AbstractThe Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address many key astrophysical questions in a completely novel way. The synergy with ground-based and space-born instruments in the electromagnetic domain, by enabling multi-messenger observations, will add further to the discovery potential of LISA. The next decade is crucial to prepare the astrophysical community for LISA’s first observations. This review outlines the extensive landscape of astrophysical theory, numerical simulations, and astronomical observations that are instrumental for modeling and interpreting the upcoming LISA datastream. To this aim, the current knowledge in three main source classes for LISA is reviewed; ultra-compact stellar-mass binaries, massive black hole binaries, and extreme or interme-diate mass ratio inspirals. The relevant astrophysical processes and the established modeling techniques are summarized. Likewise, open issues and gaps in our understanding of these sources are highlighted, along with an indication of how LISA could help making progress in the different areas. New research avenues that LISA itself, or its joint exploitation with upcoming studies in the electromagnetic domain, will enable, are also illustrated. Improvements in modeling and analysis approaches, such as the combination of numerical simulations and modern data science techniques, are discussed. This review is intended to be a starting point for using LISA as a new discovery tool for understanding our Universe.