LISA Related Literature

This list was composed and is maintained by Shane L. Larson () and Louis J. Rubbo (). If you have comments, suggestions, or papers to add, please drop us a note!

For a broader survey of G-wave literature, see the Astrogravs Literature Catalog.

Proceedings of LISA Symposia

1. Proceedings of the 5th LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 22, Num. 10 (2005).
   [CQG]

2. Proceedings of the 4th LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, Num. 10 (2003).
   [CQG]

3. Proceedings of the 3rd LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18, Num. 19 (2001).
   [CQG]

4. Proceedings of the 2nd LISA Symposium, published by AIP Press/Springer-Verlag, W. Folkner Ed. (1998).
   [Springer]

5. Proceedings of the 1st LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 14, Num. 6 (1997).
   [CQG]

LISA Overviews & Mission Reference Documents

1. K. Danzmann and A. Rüdiger, "LISA Technology--Concept, Status, Prospects", Class. Quant. Grav. 20, S1 (2003).
   [CQG]

2. (LPPA) LISA Pre-Phase A Report, 2nd Ed. (1998)
   [LISA Study Team]

3. (FTR) LISA Final Technical Report (2000)
   [ESA]

4. (STS) LISA System Technology Study (2000)
   [ESA]

LISA Tools & Basis Documents

1. J. Crowder and Neil J. Cornish, The LISA Calculator
   [ Calculator ]

2. Shane L. Larson, Online Sensitivity Curve Generator
   based on: Phys. Rev. D, 66, 062001 (2002).
   [Curve Generator | PRD]

3. Neil J. Cornish, Louis J. Rubbo and Olivier Poujade, The LISA Simulator
   based on: Phys. Rev. D, 69, 082003 (2004).
   [LISA Simulator | PRD]

4. Michele Vallisneri, Synthetic LISA
   based on: submitted to Phys. Rev. D, (2004).
   [Synthetic LISA| PRD]

Sensitivity & Response Functions for Spaceborne Observatories

1. Louis J. Rubbo, Neil J. Cornish and Olivier Poujade, "Forward modeling of space-borne gravitational wave detectors", Phys. Rev. D, 69, 082003 (2004).
   [PRD | arxiv]

2. Neil J. Cornish and Louis J. Rubbo, "LISA response function", Phys. Rev. D, 67, 022001 (2003).
   [PRD | arxiv]

3. Thomas A. Prince, Massimo Tinto, Shane L. Larson and John W. Armstrong, "The LISA Optimal Sensitivity", Phys. Rev. D, 66, 122002 (2002).
   [PRD | arxiv]

4. Shane L. Larson, Ronald W. Hellings and William A. Hiscock, "Unequal arm space-borne gravitational wave detectors", Phys. Rev. D, 66, 062001 (2002).
   [PRD | arxiv]

5. Shane L. Larson, William A. Hiscock and Ronald W. Hellings, "Sensitivity curves for spaceborne gravitational wave interferometers", Phys. Rev. D, 62, 062001 (2000).
   [PRD | arxiv]

6. G. Giampieri, "On the Antenna Pattern of an Orbiting Interferometer", MNRAS 289, 185 (1997).
   [ADS | arXiv]

7. R. Schilling, "Angular and Frequency Response of LISA", Class. Quant. Grav. 14, 1513 (1997).
   [CQG]

Time Delay Interferometry (TDI)

1. D. A. Shaddock, "Operating LISA as a Sagnac Interferometer", Phys. Rev. D 69, 022001 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

2. M. Tinto, F. B. Estabrook and J. W. Armstrong, "Time Delay Interferometry with Moving Spacecraft Arrays", Phys. Rev. D 69, 082001 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

3. N. J. Cornish and R. W. Hellings, "The Effects of Orbital Motion on LISA Time Delay Interfrometry", Class. Quant. Grav. 20, 4851 (2003).
   [CQG | arXiv]

4. M. Tinto, D. A. Shaddock, J. Sylvestre and J. W. Armstrong, "Implementation of Time-Delay Interferometry for LISA", Phys. Rev. D 67, 122003 (2003).
   [PRD | arXiv]

5. D. A. Shaddock, M. Tinto, F. B. Estabrook and J. W. Armstrong, "Data Combinations Accounting for LISA Spacecraft Motion", Phys. Rev. D 68, 061303(R) (2003).
   [PRD | arXiv]

6. R. W. Hellings, "Elimination of Clock Jitter Noise in Spaceborne Laser Interferometers", Phys. Rev. D 62, 022002 (2001).
   [PRD | arXiv]

7. Massimo Tinto and John W. Armstrong, "Cancellation of laser noise in an unequal-arm interferometer detector of gravitational radiation", Phys. Rev. D, 59, 102003 (1999).
   [PRD]

8. J. W. Armstrong, F. B. Estabrook and Massimo Tinto, "Time-Delay Interferometry for Space-based Gravitational Wave Searches", Astroph. J., 527, 814 (1999).
   [ApJ]

Sources

1. Jonathan R. Gair et al., "Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 21, 1595 (2004).
   [CQG | arxiv]

2. A. Cooray, A. J. Farmer and N. Seto, "Optical Identification of Close White Dwarf Binaries in the LISA Era", Astrophys. J. 601, L47 (2004).
   [ApJ | arXiv]

3. M. Freitag, "Gravitational waves from stars orbiting the Sagittarius A* black hole", Astrophys. J. 583, L21 (2003).
   [ApJ | arXiv]

4. S. A. Hughes, "Untangling the Merger History of Massive Black Holes with LISA", MNRAS 331, 805 (2002).
   [MNRAS | arXiv]

5. M. J. Benacquista, S. Portegies Zwart and F. A. Rasio, "LISA Sources in Globular Clusters", Class. Quant. Grav. 18, 4025 (2001).
   [CQG | arXiv]

6. M. Meliani, J. de Araujo and O. Aguiar, "Cataclysmic variables as sources of gravitational waves", Astron. & Astrophys. 358, 417 (2000).
   [A+A | arXiv]

7. L. S. Finn and K. S. Thorne, "Gravitational Waves from a Compact Star in a Circular, Inspiral Orbit, in the Equitorial Plane of a Massive, Spinning Black Hole, as Observed by LISA", Phys. Rev. D 62, 124021 (2000).
   [PRD | arXiv]

8. B. F. Schutz, "Low-Frequency Sources of Gravitational Waves: A Tutorial", (1997).
   [arXiv]

Astrophysical Foregrounds/Backgrounds

1. Leor Barack and Curt Cutler, "Confusion Noise from LISA Capture Sources", (2004).
   [arxiv]

2. M. J. Benacquista, J. Degoes and D. Lunder, "A simulation of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna data stream from galactic white dwarf binaries", Class. Quant. Grav. 21, S509 (2004).
   [CQG | arxiv]

3. A. J. Farmer and E. S. Phinney, "The Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Compact Binaries", MNRAS 346, 1197 (2003).
   [MNRAS | arxiv]

4. R. Schneider, V. Ferrari, S. Matarrese and S. Portegies Zwart, "Low-frequency gravitational waves from cosmological compact binaries", MNRAS 324, 797 (2001).
   [MNRAS | arxiv]

5. G. Nelemans, L. R. Yungelson and S. F. Portegies Zwart, "The Gravitational Wave Signal from the Galactic Disk Population of Binaries Containing Two Compact Objects", A&A 375, 890 (2001).
   [A&A | arXiv]

6. W. A. Hiscock, S. L. Larson, J. R. Routzahn and B. Kulick, "Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves from White Dwarf Macho Binaries", Astroph. J. 540, L5 (2000).
   [ApJ | arXiv]

7. D. Hils and P. L. Bender, "Gravitational Radiation from Helium Cataclysmics", Astroph. J. 537, 334 (2000).
   [ApJ]

8. W. A. Hiscock, "Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Macho Binaries", Astroph. J. 509, L101 (1998).
   [ADS | arXiv]

9. D. I. Kosenko and K. A. Postnov, "On the Gravitational Wave Noise from Unresolved Extragalactic Binaries", Astron. Astrophys. 336, 786 (1998).
   [A&A | arXiv]

10. K. A. Postnov and M. E. Prokhorov, "Galactic Binary Gravitational Wave Noise Within the LISA Frequency Band", Astroph. J. 494, 674 (1998).
    [ADS | arXiv]

11. P. L. Bender and D. Hils, "Confusion Noise Level due to Galactic and Extragalactic Binaries", Class. Quant. Grav. 14, 1439 (1997).
    [CQG]

12. D. Hils, "Gravitational Radiation from Dual Neutron Star Elliptical Binaries", Astroph. J. 381, 484 (1991).
    [ADS]

13. D. Hils, P. L. Bender and R. F. Webbink, "Gravitational Radiation from the Galaxy", Astroph. J. 360, 75 (1990).
    [ADS]

14. C. R. Evans, I. Iben and L. Smarr, "Degenerate Dwarf Binaries as Promising, Detectable Sources of Gravitational Radiation", Astroph. J. 323, 129 (1987).
    [ADS]

Mapping Foregrounds/Backgrounds

1. N. Seto and A. Cooray, "LISA Measurement of Gravitational Wave Background Anisotropy: Hexadecapole Moment via a Correlation Analysis", Phys. Rev. D 70, 123005 (2004).
   [PRD]

2. N. Seto, "Annual Modulation of the Galactic Binary Confusion Noise Background and LISA Data Analysis", Phys. Rev. D 69, 123005 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

3. N. J. Cornish, "Making Maps With LISA", Class. Quant. Grav. 19, 1279 (2002).
   [CQG]

4. Neil J. Cornish "Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA", Phys. Rev. D, 65, 022004 (2002).
   [PRD | arxiv]

5. Neil J. Cornish "Mapping the gravitational wave background", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18, 4277 (2001).
   [CQG| arxiv]

6. Neil J. Cornish and Shane L. Larson "Space missions to detect the cosmic gravitational wave background", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18, 3473 (2001).
   [CQG| arxiv]

7. G. Giampieri and A. G. Polnarev, "Detecting an Anisotropic Gravitational Wave Background with a Space-Borne Interferometer", MNRAS 291, 149 (1997).
   [ADS]

Data Analysis

1. Massimo Tinto and Shane L. Larson, "The LISA time-delay interferometry zero-signal solution I: geometrical properties", Phys. Rev. D, 70 062002 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

2. A. Krolak and M. Tinto, "Optimal filtering of the LISA data", to appear in Proceedings of the 10th Marcel Grossman Meeting (2004).
   [arXiv]

3. A. Krolak, M. Tinto and M. Vallisneri, "Optimal filtering of the LISA data", Phys. Rev. D 70, 022003 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

4. S. E. Pollack, "LISA Science Results in the Presence of Data Disturbances", Class. Quant. Grav. 21, 3419 (2004).
   [CQG | arXiv]

5. Leor Barack and Curt Cutler, "LISA capture sources: Approximate waveforms, signal-to-noise ratios, and parameter estimation accuracy", Phys. Rev. D, 69, 082005 (2004).
   [PRD | arxiv]

6. Neil J. Cornish and Shane L. Larson "LISA data analysis: source identification and subtraction", Phys. Rev. D, 67, 103001 (2003).
   [PRD | arxiv]

7. Neil J. Cornish and Shane L. Larson "LISA data analysis: doppler demodulation", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, 163 (2003).
   [CQG| arxiv]

8. Thomas A. Moore and Ronald W. Hellings, "Angular resolution of space-based gravitational wave detectors", Phys. Rev. D, 65, 062001 (2002).
   [PRD | arxiv]

9. N. Seto, "Effects of Finite Armlength of LISA on Analysis of Gravitational Waves from Massive-Black-Hole Binaries", Phys. Rev. D 66, 122001 (2002).
   [PRD | arXiv]

10. N. Seto, "Long-Term Operation of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and Galactic Close White Dwarf Binaries", MNRAS 333, 469 (2002).
    [MNRAS | arXiv]

11. R. Takahashi and N. Seto, "Parameter Estimation for Galactic Binaries by the Laser Inteferometer Space Antenna", Astroph. J. 575, 1030 (2002).
    [ApJ | arXiv]

12. M. Tinto, J. W. Armstrong and F. B. Estabrook, "Discriminating a Gravitational Wave Background from Instrumental Noise in the LISA Detector", Phys. Rev. D 63, 021101(R) (2000).
    [PRD]

13. Curt Cutler, "Angular resolution of the LISA gravitational wave detector", Phys. Rev. D, 57, 7089 (1998).
    [PRD | arxiv]

14. B. F. Schutz, "Introduction to the Analysis of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Data", (1997).
    [arXiv]

Population Synthesis

1. Jarrod R. Hurley, Chirstopher A. Tout and Onno R. Pols, "Evolution of binary stars and the effect of tides on binary populations", MNRAS 329, 897 (2002).
   [MNRAS | arxiv]

2. Krzysztof Belczynski, Vassiliki Kalogera and Tomasz Bulik, "A comprehensive study of binary compact objects as gravitational wave sources", Astroph. J., 572, 407 (2002).
   [ApJ | arxiv]

3. B. Willems and U. Kolb, "Population synthesis of wide binary millisecond pulsars", MNRAS, 337, 1004 (2002).
   [MNRAS | arxiv]

4. G. Nelemans, L. R. Yungelson, S. F. Portegies Zwart and F. Verbunt, "Population Synthesis for Double White Dwarfs I. Close Detached Systems", A&A 365, 491 (2001).
   [A&A | arXiv]

5. G. Nelemans, S. F. Portegies Zwart, F. Verbunt and L. R. Yungelson, "Population Synthesis for Double White Dwarfs II. Semi-Detaced Systems: AM CVn Stars", A&A 368, 939 (2001).
   [A&A | arXiv]

Doppler Response Formalism

1. R. Hellings, "Spacecraft-Doppler Gravity-Wave Detection. I. Theory", Phys. Rev. D 23, 832 (1981).
   [PROLA]

2. F. B. Estabrook and H. D. Wahlquist, "Response of Doppler Spacecraft Tracking to Gravitational Radiation", Gen. Rel. & Grav. 6, 439 (1975).
   [ADS]

Miscellaneous/Useful

1. P. C. Peters and J. Mathews, "Gravitational Radiation from Point Masses in a Keplerian Orbit", Phys. Rev. 131, 435 (1963).
   [PROLA]

2. P. C. Peters, "Gravitational Radiation and the Motion of Two Point Masses ", Phys. Rev. 136, B1224 (1964).
   [PROLA]

3. Hugo D. Wahlquist, "The Doppler response to gravitational waves from a binary star source", Gen. Rel. Grav, 19, 1101 (1987).
   [ADS]