Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, we briefly review some of the applications to fundamental physics and cosmology of the observations that will be made with the future space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector LISA. This includes detection of GW bursts generated by cosmic strings, measurement of a stochastic GW background, mapping the spacetime around massive compact objects in galactic nuclei using extreme-mass-ratio inspirals and testing the predictions of general relativity for the strong dynamical fields generated by inspiralling binaries. We give particular attention to some new results which demonstrated the capability of LISA to constrain cosmological parameters using observations of coalescing massive black hole binaries.
Source: Classical and Quantum Gravity
Authors: Stanislav Babak, Jonathan R Gair, Antoine Petiteau, Alberto Sesana
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G2935175593
OpenAlex ID: W2081840966