Speaker
Dr
Peter Wass
(Imperial College London)
Description
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna or LISA is a future ESA satellite mission to observe mill-Hertz gravitational waves originating from extreme events such as the merger of supermassive black holes. Gravitational waves will be measured as they pass through a million-km arm-length interferometer whose test masses are perfectly free-falling through space. The technology demonstration mission LISA Pathfinder was launched in December 2015 to demonstrate the unprecedented level free-fall required for such an observatory. I will present the results from the first months of LISA Pathfinder measurements and their consequences for the performance of LISA.
Primary author
Dr
Peter Wass
(Imperial College London)
