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Welcome to the LISC web portal
This website features news, resources, and discussion boards about LISA (the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), a space-based gravitational-wave observatory that will allow us to detect gravitational waves from massive black-hole mergers in the centers of galaxies, from the ultra-compact binary systems in our own Galaxy, and from many other sources. A joint ESA and NASA mission, LISA will create revolutionary research opportunities in astrophysics and fundamental physics.
The LISA International Science Team (LIST) serves as the scientific coordinating body and advisory committee to ESA and NASA. The LIST maintains the LISA International Science Community (LISC) for the purpose of exchanging information about LISA with the wider science community.
Join the LISC!
If you are working on any aspect of LISA science, physics or engineering, or if you are a researcher interested in learning more about LISA, please join the LISC! How? Just go to our page Joining the LISC, take a look at what joining entails, and fill out the online form.
Joining will also allow you to participate in the LISA discussion boards; your name and institution will appear on the public list of LISC members, and should you wish to do so, you will be able to receive various LISA updates by mail.
[If you have already completed a preliminary registration (Name, E-Mail) on this website upon receiving the first issue of the LISA newsletter, you should have received by now an e-mail with instructions on completing your registration.]
We look forward to your participation in this exciting mission!
Top News
2008-04-10 | Announcing the 3rd round of the Mock LISA Data Challenge!
Ready to have your LISA data analysis software measure up against the competition? Then don't miss the 3rd round of the Mock Lisa Data Challenge, which has just been announced by the Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST-WG1B) of the LISA International Science Team. Here's your chance to find massive black hole mergers, smaller black holes falling into larger ones, and even whip-lashing cosmic strings in the kinds of data set LISA is expected to yield.
2007-10-19 | New LISA Taskforce: Parameter Estimation
At the LIST meeting in September 2007, a new taskforce on LISA Parameter Estimation (LISA PE) was established, whose main goal is to foster the development of accurate, reliable and flexible tools and models for calculating how accurately LISA can measure astrophysical parameters for various sources. Interested scientists are invited to join.
2007-10-02 | January 2008 AAS meeting: Call for posters
The American Astronomical Society will have its annual winter meeting in Austin, Texas January 7 - 11, 2008; we encourage LISC members to submit contributions for a planned poster session dedicated to LISA science.
2007-07-03 | Gas helps massive black holes find each other
When two galaxies merge, a large fraction of the gas they contain is funnelled into the central regions of the merger. Recent simulations suggests that this gas leads to a much faster coalescence of the massive black hole pair compared to the situation where no gas is present. The gas might also force the spins of the black holes to align.