LISA Pathfinder tracera la voie vers la mission eLISA en testant, dans l’espace, le concept (les principes ?) de la détection d’ondes gravitationnelles.

L'endroit le plus silencieux du système solaire

LISA Pathfinder (LPF) placera deux masses d’épreuve en "chute libre" quasi parfaite, contrôlera et mesurera leur mouvement relatif avec une précision inégalée. Ceci sera effectué grâce à des thechnologies innovantes telles que des senseurs inertiels, un système de métrologie laser, un système à compensation de trainée et des micro-propulseurs délivrant des micro-Newton. L’ensemble de ces masses d’épreuve et leur environnement constitueront probablement un des endroits les plus "calmes" du système solaire.

Toutes ces technologies sont non seulement essentielles pour la mission eLISA, elles seront également à la base de toutes les missions qui voudront tester la théorie de la relativitié générale d’Einstein.

LPF sera lancé en novembre 2015.

The LISA Consortium

The LISA Consortium is committed to supporting the LISA mission. It includes all the main investigators involved in the highly successful LISA Pathfinder mission, a number of scientists who worked on the ground-based LIGO, Virgo, and GEO projects, and a number who worked on the Laser Ranging Interferometer on the GRACE Follow-On mission, thus making full use of the expertise accumulated so far. The LISA Consortium proposed and submitted the white paper The Gravitational Universe which was accepted for the ESA L3 slot.

If you are a scientist and wish to contribute to the LISA mission, use this scientist registration form.

Latest news and consortium activities

Date Title Summary
Feb 26, 2015
LISA Pathfinder takes first steps on journey to space The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft has taken the first steps on the journey that will...
Jan 16, 2015
ESA announces LISA Pathfinder launch for September 2015 In the first press release of 2015, ESA today announced the September launch window of...
May 04, 2015
LISA Pathfinder's scientific payload completely assembled The assembly of the LISA Pathfinder satellite is on track for the launch on top of a Vega...
Jun 23, 2015
LISA Pathfinder: Science payload completed and integrated into the satellite Next steps: Shipment to Kourou and launch in autumn After more than 10 years of intense...
Jul 17, 2015
ESA: Inside LISA Pathfinder ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission is a technology demonstrator that will pave the way for...

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Conferences, publications and positions

Date News topicsort descending Image Title
Oct 05, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral Openings in Theoretical Astroparticle and Particle Physics at SISSA
Nov 08, 2023
Positions Project Manager (m/f/d) for the Interferometric Detection System (IDS) of LISA at AEI Hannover
Nov 28, 2023
Positions Permanent AI/computing facilitator position at URI
Sep 12, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral positions in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics division at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam
Oct 26, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral positions and PhD position in gravitational wave physics at GRAPPA, the University of Amsterdam
Positions PhD Scholarships – Statistics and Gravitational Wave Science for LISA, New Zealand
Oct 05, 2023
Positions Head of LISA Performance and Operations Team at AEI Hannover
Nov 21, 2023
Positions Faculty Position in Theoretical Gravitational Physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Oct 19, 2023
Positions Tenure-track faculty position in astrophysics at University of Rochester
Nov 28, 2023
Positions Postdocs available at the RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG)
Nov 01, 2023
Positions Postdoctoral Positions at the RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation
Dec 06, 2022
Positions PhD and postdoctoral positions in Continuous Gravitational Wave research at AEI Hannover
Nov 21, 2023
Positions Tenure Track Position in Multimessenger and Gravitational Wave Astronomy at Oregon State University
Oct 19, 2023
Positions Three Postdoctoral Positions in astroparticle physics at INFN and Turin U
Sep 14, 2023
Positions Open call for Postdoctoral Fellowships at ICE-CSIC in Barcelona

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