Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna


Auclair P., Bacon D., Baker T., Barreiro T., Bartolo N., Belgacem E., ...More

LIVING REVIEWS IN RELATIVITY, vol.26, no.1, 2023 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Review
  • Volume: 26 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2023
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/s41114-023-00045-2
  • Journal Name: LIVING REVIEWS IN RELATIVITY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and their implications for early universe and particle physics, from the MeV to the Planck scale. However, the range of potential cosmological applications of gravitational-wave observations extends well beyond these two objectives. This publication presents a summary of the state of the art in LISA cosmology, theory and methods, and identifies new opportunities to use gravitational-wave observations by LISA to probe the universe.