Waveform modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Afshordi, Niayesh, Akçay, Sarp, Seoane, Pau Amaro, Antonelli, Andrea, Aurrekoetxea, Josu C., Barack, Leor, Barausse, Enrico, Benkel, Robert, Bernard, Laura, Bernuzzi, Sebastiano, Berti, Emanuele, Bonetti, Matteo, Bonga, Béatrice, Bozzola, Gabriele, Brito, Richard, Buonanno, Alessandra, Cárdenas-Avendaño, Alejandro, Casals, Marc, Chernoff, David F., Chua, Alvin J. K., Clough, Katy, Colleoni, Marta, Compère, Geoffrey, Dhesi, Mekhi, Druart, Adrien, Durkan, Leanne, Faye, Guillaume, Ferguson, Deborah, Field, Scott E., Gabella, William E., García-Bellido, Juan, Gracia-Linares, Miguel, Gerosa, Davide, Green, Stephen R., Haney, Maria, Hannam, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-325X, Heffernan, Anna, Hinderer, Tanja, Helfer, Thomas, Hughes, Scott A., Husa, Sascha, Isoyama, Soichiro, Katz, Michael L., Kavanagh, Chris, Khanna, Gaurav, Kidder, Larry E., Korol, Valeriya, Küchler, Lorenzo, Laguna, Pablo, Larrouturou, François, Tiec, Alexandre Le, Leather, Benjamin, Lim, Eugene A., Lim, Hyun, Littenberg, Tyson B., Long, Oliver, Lousto, Carlos O., Lovelace, Geoffrey, Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios, Lynch, Philip, Macedo, Rodrigo P., Markakis, Charalampos, Maggio, Elisa, Mandel, Ilya, Maselli, Andrea, Mathews, Josh, Mourier, Pierre, Neilsen, David, Nagar, Alessandro, Nichols, David A., Novák, Jan, Okounkova, Maria, O’Shaughnessy, Richard, Oshita, Naritaka, O’Toole, Conor, Pan, Zhen, Pani, Paolo, Pappas, George, Paschalidis, Vasileios, Pfeiffer, Harald P., Pompili, Lorenzo, Pound, Adam, Pratten, Geraint, Rüter, Hannes R., Ruiz, Milton, Sam, Zeyd, Sberna, Laura, Shapiro, Stuart L., Shoemaker, Deirdre M., Sopuerta, Carlos F., Spiers, Andrew, Sundar, Hari, Tamanini, Nicola, Thompson, Jonathan E., Toubiana, Alexandre, Tsokaros, Antonios, Upton, Samuel D., van de Meent, Maarten, Vernieri, Daniele, Wachter, Jeremy M., Warburton, Niels, Wardell, Barry, Witek, Helvi, Witzany, Vojtěch, Yang, Huan, Zilhão, Miguel, Albertini, Angelica, Arun, K. G., Bezares, Miguel, Bonilla, Alexander, Chapman-Bird, Christian, Cownden, Bradley, Cunningham, Kevin, Devitt, Chris, Dolan, Sam, Duque, Francisco, Dyson, Conor, Fryer, Chris L., Gair, Jonathan R., Giacomazzo, Bruno, Gupta, Priti, Han, Wen-Biao, Haas, Roland, Hirschmann, Eric W., Huerta, E. A., Jetzer, Philippe, Kelly, Bernard, Khalil, Mohammed, Lewis, Jack, Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole, Marsat, Sylvain, Nardini, Germano, Neef, Jakob, Ottewill, Adrian, Pantelidou, Christiana, Piovano, Gabriel Andres, Redondo-Yuste, Jaime, Sagunski, Laura, Stein, Leo C., Skoupý, Viktor, Sperhake, Ulrich, Speri, Lorenzo, Spieksma, Thomas F. M., Stevens, Chris, Trestini, David and Vañó-Viñuales, Alex ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8589-006X 2025. Waveform modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Living Reviews in Relativity 28 , 9. 10.1007/s41114-025-00056-1

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Abstract

LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will expand our view to the millihertz gravitational-wave sky, where a spectacular variety of interesting new sources abound: from millions of ultra-compact binaries in our Galaxy, to mergers of massive black holes at cosmological distances; from the early inspirals of stellar-mass black holes that will ultimately venture into the ground-based detectors’ view to the death spiral of compact objects into massive black holes, and many sources in between. Central to realising LISA’s discovery potential are waveform models, the theoretical and phenomenological predictions of the pattern of gravitational waves that these sources emit. This White Paper is presented on behalf of the Waveform Working Group for the LISA Consortium. It provides a review of the current state of waveform models for LISA sources, and describes the significant challenges that must yet be overcome.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Physics and Astronomy
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, Type: open-access
Publisher:	Springer
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 November 2025
Date of Acceptance:	30 January 2025
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2025 10:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/182174

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