Stefano Vitale

TL;DR: The LISA Consortium as mentioned in this paper proposed a 4-year mission in response to ESA's call for missions for L3, which is an all-sky monitor and will offer a wide view of a dynamic cosmos using Gravitational Waves as new and unique messengers to unveil The Gravitational Universe.

TL;DR: The LISA Consortium as discussed by the authors proposed a 4-year mission in response to ESA's call for missions for L3, which provides the closest ever view of the infant universe at TeV energy scales, has known sources in the form of verification binaries in the Milky Way, and can probe the entire universe, from its smallest scales near the horizons of black holes, all the way to cosmological scales.

TL;DR: The first results of the LISA Pathfinder in-flight experiment demonstrate that two free-falling reference test masses, such as those needed for a space-based gravitational wave observatory like LISA, can be put in free fall with a relative acceleration noise with a square root of the power spectral density.

TL;DR: The New Gravitational-Wave Observatory (NGO) as discussed by the authors, a mission under study by the European Space Agency for launch in the early 2020s, will survey the low-frequency gravitational wave sky (from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz), detecting and characterizing a broad variety of systems and events throughout the Universe, including the coalescences of massive black holes brought together by galaxy mergers, the inspirals of stellar-mass black holes and compact stars into central galactic black holes; several millions of ultra-compact binaries, both detached and mass transferring, in

TL;DR: The European New Gravitational wave Observatory (eLISA) as discussed by the authors is the first mission to survey the low-frequency gravitational wave band (about 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz), with sufficient sensitivity to detect interesting individual astrophysical sources out to z = 15.