The Gravitational Universe

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.5720
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Authors: The Elisa Consortium; Pau Amaro‐Seoane; S Aoudia; H. Audley; G. Auger; S. Babak; John C. Baker; Enrico Barausse; Simon Barke; M. Bassan; V. Beckmann; M. Benacquista; P. L. Bender; Emanuele Berti; P. Binétruy; J. Bogenstahl; Camille Bonvin; D. Bortoluzzi; N. C. Brause; J. Brossard; Sasha Buchman; Iouri Bykov; J. B. Camp; Chiara Caprini; A. Cavalleri; M. Cerdonio; G. Ciani; M. Colpi; G. Congedo; John Conklin; N. Cornish; K. Danzmann; Glen de Vine; D. Debra; M. Dewi Freitag; L. Di Fiore; Marc Díaz Aguiló; I. Diepholz; R. Dolesi; Massimo Dotti; Germán Fernández ...; L. Ferraioli; V. Ferroni; N. Finetti; E. D. Fitzsimons; Jonathan Gair; F. Galeazzi; A. Garcia; Oliver Gerberding; L. Gesa; D. Giardini; F. Gibert; C. Grimani; P. Groot; F. Guzman Cervantes; Zoltàn Haiman; Hubert Halloin; Gerhard Heinzel; Craig J. Hogan; D. E. Holz; A. Hornstrup; D. Hoyland; C. D. Hoyle; M. Hueller; Scott A. Hughes; Philippe Jetzer; V. Kalogera; Nikolaos Karnesis; Mukremin Kilic; C. J. Killow; William Klipstein; E. Kochkina; Natalia Korsakova; A. Królak; Shane L. Larson; M. Lieser; T. Littenberg; Jeff Livas; I. Lloro; D. Mance; Piero Madau; Peiman Maghami; Christoph Mahrdt; T. R. Marsh; I Mateos; Lucio Mayer; D. E. McClelland; Kirk McKenzie; S. T. McWilliams; Stephen Merkowitz; Christian Miller; Shawn Mitryk; J. Moerschell; Soumya D. Mohanty; A. Monsky; G. Mueller; V. Müller; G. Nelemans; Daniele Nicolodi; S. Nissanke; M. Nofrarías; Kenji Numata; F. Ohme; Markus Otto; M. Perreur-Lloyd; Antoine Petiteau; E. S. Phinney; E. Plagnol; S. E. Pollack; E. K. Porter; P. Prat; Anthony W.H. Preston; Thomas A. Prince; J. Reiche; D. Richstone; D. I. Robertson; Elena M. Rossi; Stephan Rosswog; Louis J. Rubbo; Ashley J. Ruiter; Jose Sanjuán; B. S. Sathyaprakash; Stephan Schlamminger; B. F. Schutz; Dieter Schütze; Alberto Sesana; D. A. Shaddock; S. Shah; B. Sheard; Carlos F. Sopuerta; Aaron Spector; Robert Spero; R. Stanga; R. T. Stebbins; G. Stede; Frank Steier; T. J. Sumner; K.‐X. Sun; A. Sutton; Takamitsu Tanaka; D. B. Tanner; Ira Thorpe; M. Tröbs; Massimo Tinto; H. Tu; M. Vallisneri; D. Vetrugno; S. Vitale; Marta Volonteri; Vinzenz Wand; Y. Wang; Gudrun Wanner; H. Ward; Brent Ware; Peter Wass; W. J. Weber; Yangyang Yu; Nicolás Yunes; P. F. Zweifel
• Keywords: Big Rip; Flatness problem; Particle horizon

The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of the Universe. We know life cycles stars, structure galaxies, remnants big bang, and have a general how Universe evolved. come remarkably far using electromagnetic radiation as tool for observing However, gravity is engine behind many processes Universe, much its action dark. Opening gravitational window on will let us go further than any alternative. Gravity own messenger: Gravitational waves, ripples fabric spacetime. They travel essentially undisturbed peer deep into formation first seed black holes, exploring redshifts large z ~ 20, prior to epoch cosmic re-ionisation. Exquisite unprecedented measurements hole masses spins make it possible trace history holes across all stages galaxy evolution, at same time constrain deviation from Kerr metric General Relativity. eLISA be ever mission study entire with waves. an all-sky monitor offer wide view dynamic cosmos waves new unique messengers unveil It provides closest early TeV energies, guaranteed sources form verification binaries Milky Way, can probe smallest scales around singularities way cosmological dimensions.