GWADW2026 - Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector Workshop

Session

Observatories in Space

22 May 2026, 18:00

Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba

117. Validation of the performance of LISA on ground

Maxime Vincent (APC CNRS)

22/05/2026, 18:00

Observatories in space

Presentation

The French contribution to the LISA Consortium, on the instrumental side, focuses on developing optical ground support equipment to validate LISA's performance prior to launch. One key task of the French community is to test and validate the performance of the Interferometric Detection System (IDS).

To this end, the IDS Test Set-Up is currently under development. Its objectives are twofold:...

124. Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna: a sub-Hertz detector on the Moon

Volker Quetschke (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

22/05/2026, 18:18

Observatories in space

Presentation

The moon offers unique opportunities and challenges to realize interferometric gravitational wave detectors that are sensitive over a range of frequencies that is currently not covered. Compared with Earth-based detectors, the moon’s reduced gravity and lower seismic activity allow us to shift the sensitivity to lower frequencies.
In this talk, we will provide an update on the Laser...

125. Low-Frequency Sensitivity of the Lunar Interferometer Laser Antenna

Teviet Creighton (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

22/05/2026, 18:36

Observatories in space

Presentation

The quiet seismic environment and natural hard vacuum on the Moon offers opportunities for gravitational-wave detectors that are complementary to both Terrestrial and free-floating space-based instruments.  The Lunar Interferometer Laser Antenna (LILA) is a proposed xylophone gravitational-wave detector on the Moon, starting with an unsuspended interferometer operating at sub-decihertz...