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LISA - observing gravitational waves in space

LISA will be a large-scale space mission designed to detect one of the most elusive phenomena in astronomy - gravitational waves. With LISA we will be able to observe the entire universe directly with gravitational waves, learning about the formation of structure and galaxies, stellar evolution, the early universe, and the structure and nature of spacetime itself.

The LISA Pathfinder Mission successfully paved the way for the LISA mission by demonstrating the key technologies for a large gravitational wave observatory in space. The results show that LISA Pathfinder is working to a precision better than required for LISA. The LISA Pathfinder mission was launched on 3rd December 2015 and ended in July 2017. 

The LISA Consortium

The LISA Consortium is committed to supporting the LISA mission. It includes all the main investigators involved in the highly successful LISA Pathfinder mission, a number of scientists who worked on the ground-based LIGO, Virgo, and GEO projects, and a number who worked on the Laser Ranging Interferometer on the GRACE Follow-On mission, thus making full use of the expertise accumulated so far. The LISA Consortium proposed and submitted the white paper The Gravitational Universe which was accepted for the ESA L3 slot.

If you are a scientist and wish to contribute to the LISA mission, use this scientist registration form.

Latest news and consortium activities

Date Title Summary
Sep 01, 2015
LISA Pathfinder on the way to launch The satellite is completed LISA Pathfinder (LPF), the test mission to demonstrate new...
Sep 01, 2015
LISA Pathfinder en el camí al llençament El satèl·lit s'ha acabat LISA Pathfinder (LPF), la missió per demostrar les noves...
Oct 08, 2015
LISA Pathfinder arrives at Launch Site in Kourou, French Guiana LPF arrives safely at the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana.
Dec 03, 2015
LISA Pathfinder launches successfully on 3 Dec 2015 LISA Pathfinder lifted off on Ariane Spaceflight VV06 atop the sixth Vega rocket on 3...
Jan 13, 2016
Laser light for LISA Pathfinder Since December 3, 2015, LISA Pathfinder is in space and still on the way to its target...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topicsort descending Image Title
Dec 06, 2022
Positions PhD and postdoctoral positions in Continuous Gravitational Wave research at AEI Hannover
Oct 05, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral Openings in Theoretical Astroparticle and Particle Physics at SISSA
Nov 02, 2023
Positions Associate or Full Professor in Technology Development or Instrumentation at University of Florida
Oct 17, 2023
Positions Faculty Position at Troy University
Nov 21, 2023
Positions Postdoc position at University of Western Australia
Sep 14, 2023
Positions Open call for Postdoctoral Fellowships at ICE-CSIC in Barcelona
Nov 30, 2023
Positions Postdoc in Gravitational Wave Data Analysis in Utrecht
Positions PhD positions available at the UWA Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Group
Oct 05, 2023
Positions Assistant Professorship in Theoretical and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics at Niels Bohr Institute
Nov 07, 2023
Positions Assistant Professor in Time-Domain Astronomy at University of Florida
Oct 17, 2023
Positions Research Expert in gravitational wave simulation & data analysis for LISA
Nov 21, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sep 19, 2023
Positions Postdoc position in computational relativistic astrophysics and numerical relativity at Caltech
Oct 25, 2023
Positions Assistant Professor in Experimental Gravitational Wave at University of Florida
Jan 03, 2023
Positions PhD positions in “Precision Interferometry and Fundamental Interactions” at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, AEI Hannover

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