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Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO

Classical and Quantum Gravity · 2012 · Vol. 29(12) · pp. 124016–124016

Pau Amaro-Seoane✉(Institute of Space Sciences)Sofiane Aoudia(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)Stanislav Babak(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)Pierre Binétruy(Délégation Paris 7)Emanuele Berti(California Institute of Technology)Alejandro Bohé(Sorbonne Université)Chiara Caprini(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives)Monica Colpi(University of Milano-Bicocca)Neil J Cornish(Montana State University)Karsten Danzmann(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)Jean-François Dufaux(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives)Jonathan Gair(University of Cambridge)Oliver Jennrich(European Space Research and Technology Centre)Philippe Jetzer(University of Zurich)Antoine Klein(University of Zurich)Ryan N Lang(Washington University in St. Louis)Alberto Lobo(Institute of Space Sciences)Tyson Littenberg(Goddard Space Flight Center)Sean T McWilliams(Princeton University)Gijs Nelemans(KU Leuven)Antoine Petiteau(Sorbonne Paris Cité)Edward K Porter(Université Paris Cité)Bernard F Schutz(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)Alberto Sesana(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)Robin Stebbins(Goddard Space Flight Center)Tim Sumner(Imperial College London)Michele Vallisneri(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)Stefano Vitale(University of Trento)Marta Volonteri(University of Michigan)Henry Ward(University of Glasgow)

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Abstract

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 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz), 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 ultracompact binaries, both detached and mass transferring, in the Galaxy; and possibly unforeseen sources such as the relic gravitational-wave radiation from the early Universe. eLISA's high signalto-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.

Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Quantum and Classical ElectrodynamicsObservatoryGalaxyGeneral relativitySkyStarsBlack hole (networking)Variety (cybernetics)Space observatoryGravitational wave

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National Science Foundation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
California Institute of Technology
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science and Technology Facilities Council

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