Doing Science with eLISA: Astrophysics and Cosmology in the Millihertz Regime
@inproceedings{AmaroSeoane2012DoingSW, title={Doing Science with eLISA: Astrophysics and Cosmology in the Millihertz Regime}, author={Pau Amaro-Seoane and S. Aoudia and Stanislav Babak and Pierre Bin'etruy and Emanuele Berti and Alejandro Boh'e and Chiara Caprini and Monica Colpi and Neil J. Cornish and Karsten Danzmann and Jean Francois Dufaux and Jonathan R. Gair and Oliver Jennrich and Ph. Jetzer and Antoine Klein and Ryan N. Lang and Alberto Lobo and Tyson B. Littenberg and S. T. McWilliams and Gijs Nelemans and A. Petiteau and Edward K. Porter and Bernard F. Schutz and Alberto Sesana and Robin Tuck Stebbins and Timothy J Sumner and Michele Vallisneri and Stefano Vitale and Marta Volonteri and H. Ward}, year={2012} }
This document introduces the exciting and fundamentally new science and astronomy that the European New Gravitational Wave Observatory (NGO) mission (derived from the previous LISA proposal) will deliver. The mission (which we will refer to by its informal name eLISA ) will survey for the first time the low-frequency gravitational wave band (about 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz), with sufficient sensitivity to detect interesting individual astrophysical sources out to z = 15. The measurements described here…
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