Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

LISA

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a European Space Agency mission designed to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves with uprecedented sensitivity, and promises to bring informations which will dramatically improve our knowledge of the Universe.

The Cosmology Group is involved in the LISA Consortium: Michele Maggiore, Chiara Caprini, Stefano Foffa and Alberto Roper Pol as Full Members, Camille Bonvin, Ruth Durrer, Martin Kunz, Lucas Lombriser and Niccolo Muttoni as Associate Members. Valerio De Luca, Gabriele Franciolini and Toni Riotto are also part of the Consortium in association with the INFN Padua group.

 

Our contribution to LISA concerns theoretical studies of the implications of LISA for dark energy, dark matter, modified gravity, and cosmology in general. In particular: use of standard sirens to study the imprint of dark energy on GW propagation (Lombriser; Foffa, Maggiore) use of standard sirens for cosmological parameter estimations (Caprini, Foffa, Kunz, Maggiore, Muttoni), effects of gravitational lensing and matter inhomegeneities on the luminosity distance (Bonvin,Durrer), studies of primordial black holes as dark matter candidates and non-Gaussian gravitational wave signals (De Luca, Franciolini, Riotto), studies of magnetohydrodynamic turbulent sources of gravitational waves in the early universe (Caprini, Roper Pol), stochastic gravitational wave signals from the early universe (Caprini).
Characterization of the gravitational wave spectrum from sound waves within the sound shell model
Topics: Early Universe, Gravitational waves, LISA, PTA
Date: 25. August 2023
Online abstract: arXiv:2308.12943
Members involved: Alberto Roper Pol, Chiara Caprini, Simona Procacci
LISA and γ-ray telescopes as multi-messenger probes of a first-order cosmological phase transition
Topics: Gravitational waves, Phase transitions, LISA, Early Universe, primordial magnetic fields
Date: 21. July 2023
Online abstract: arXiv:2307.10744
Members involved: Alberto Roper Pol, Chiara Caprini
New Horizons for Fundamental Physics with LISA
Topics: LISA, Fundamental Physics
Date: 4. May 2022
Online abstract: arXiv:2205.01597
Members involved: Valerio De Luca, Stefano Foffa, Lucas Lombriser, Michele Maggiore, Michele Mancarella, Antonio Riotto, Giulia Cusin
Probing Anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with LISA
Topics: Gravitational waves, LISA
Date: 24. January 2022
Online abstract: arXiv:2201.08782
Members involved: Giulia Cusin, Valerio De Luca, Antonio Riotto
A multi-messenger view of Cosmic Dawn : Conquering the Final Frontier
Topics: Cosmic Reionization, Gravitational waves, Intensity Mapping, LISA
Date: 2. September 2021
Online abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00003
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
A multimessenger view into the first black holes in the Universe
Topics: Black Holes, Supermassive Black Holes, Cosmic Reionization, LISA, Gravitational waves
Date: 24. December 2020
Online abstract:
Members involved:
A multi-messenger view into Cosmic Dawn
Topics: Cosmic Reionization, Intensity Mapping, Line Intensity Mapping, Gravitational waves, LISA
Date: 31. March 2021
Online abstract:
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
A multi-messenger view of Cosmic Dawn
Topics: Cosmic Reionization, Gravitational waves, LISA
Date: 6. May 2021
Online abstract:
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Constraining the host galaxy halos of massive black holes from LISA event rates
Topics: Gravitational waves, Supermassive Black Holes, LISA
Date: 17. October 2020
Online abstract: arXiv:2007.12710
Members involved: Hamsa Padmanabhan
Testing modified gravity at cosmological distances with LISA standard sirens
Topics: Gravitational waves, LISA, Modified gravity, Dark energy
Date: 4. June 2019
Online abstract: arXiv:1906.01593v2
Members involved: Enis Belgacem, Charles Dalang, Stefano Foffa, Lucas Lombriser, Michele Maggiore

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