Abstract

LISA is a space-borne, laser-interferometric gravitational wave detector currently under study by ESA[1]. LISA consists of six space-crafts placed in pairs at the corners of an equilateral triangle with a base-length of 5 × 10⁶ km forming two independent Michelson interferometers. The most likely sources of gravitational waves in the frequency range of 1 mHz to 10 mHz regime are binaries, whose orbital orientation with respect to the observer gives the polarization of the gravitational wave.

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