Hannover 2010 – scientific programme
Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Downloads | Help
Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 49: Precision Measurements and Metrology VI
Q 49.3: Talk
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 14:30–14:45, A 310
The LISA mission - a gravitational wave detector in space — •Gerhard Heinzel1,2 and Karsten Danzmann1,2 — 1Max-Planck Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein Institut) Hannover — 2Zentrum für Gravitationsphysik der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
LISA is being developed as a joint NASA/ESA mission with a planned launch date around 2020. Three satellites will form a giant laser interferometer with 5 million km armlength that is able to detect gravitational waves from astrophysical sources between 0.1 mHz and 1 Hz. The expected sources include black hole mergers and other extreme events in the universe which are otherwise unobservable. This talk will give an overview of the mission and the numerous ongoing experimental developments, with emphasis on the interferometer research in Hannover.