Session PL1: Plenary I - History and Gravitation

8:50 AM–10:30 AM, Friday, March 23, 2007
CBS - Hart Auditorium

Chair: Michael Sadler, Abilene Christian University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.TSS07.PL1.3

Abstract: PL1.00003 : LISA: Detecting gravitational waves from space

10:00 AM–10:30 AM

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Author:

  Joseph Romano
    (University of Texas at Brownsville)

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a proposed joint NASA-ESA mission whose goal is to detect low frequency (1e-4 Hz to 1e-1 Hz) gravitational waves. Expected sources include binary stars in our galaxy, extra-galactic massive black holes, and possibly gravitational radiation left over from the big bang. In this talk, I will briefly describe the LISA mission and the science that LISA will be able to do with its observations.

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