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Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO

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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 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. eLISA's 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.

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© 2012 Institute of Physics. Received 1 February 2012, in final form 27 March 2012. Published 1 June 2012. This research was supported by the Deutsches Zentrum für Lüft- und Raumfahrt and by the Transregio 7 'Gravitational Wave Astronomy' financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (German Research Foundation). EB was supported by NSF grant PHY-0900735 and by NSF CAREER grant PHY-1055103. AK was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. TL was supported by NASA grant 08-ATFP08-0126. RNL was supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities through a contract with NASA. MV performed this work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Eprint ID
32922
DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/29/12/124016
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CaltechAUTHORS:20120803-143028614

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10.1088/0264-9381/29/12/124016 (DOI)

Funding

Deutsches Zentrum für Lüft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
NSF
PHY-0900735
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
NSF
PHY-1055103
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
NASA
08-ATFP08-0126
NASA Postdoctoral Program
NASA/JPL/Caltech

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2012-08-03
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