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LISA Related Literature

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For a broader survey of G-wave literature, see the Astrogravs Literature Catalog.

Proceedings of LISA Symposia

1. Proceedings of the 5th LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 22, Num. 10 (2005).
   [CQG]

2. Proceedings of the 4th LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, Num. 10 (2003).
   [CQG]

3. Proceedings of the 3rd LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18, Num. 19 (2001).
   [CQG]

4. Proceedings of the 2nd LISA Symposium, published by AIP Press/Springer-Verlag, W. Folkner Ed. (1998).
   [Springer]

5. Proceedings of the 1st LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 14, Num. 6 (1997).
   [CQG]

LISA Overviews & Mission Reference Documents

1. K. Danzmann and A. Rüdiger, "LISA Technology--Concept, Status, Prospects", Class. Quant. Grav. 20, S1 (2003).
   [CQG]

2. (LPPA) LISA Pre-Phase A Report, 2nd Ed. (1998)
   [LISA Study Team]

3. (FTR) LISA Final Technical Report (2000)
   [ESA]

4. (STS) LISA System Technology Study (2000)
   [ESA]

LISA Tools & Basis Documents

1. J. Crowder and Neil J. Cornish, The LISA Calculator
   [ Calculator ]

2. Shane L. Larson, Online Sensitivity Curve Generator
   based on: Phys. Rev. D, 66, 062001 (2002).
   [Curve Generator | PRD]

3. Neil J. Cornish, Louis J. Rubbo and Olivier Poujade, The LISA Simulator
   based on: Phys. Rev. D, 69, 082003 (2004).
   [LISA Simulator | PRD]

4. Michele Vallisneri, Synthetic LISA
   based on: submitted to Phys. Rev. D, (2004).
   [Synthetic LISA| PRD]

Sensitivity & Response Functions for Spaceborne Observatories

1. Louis J. Rubbo, Neil J. Cornish and Olivier Poujade, "Forward modeling of space-borne gravitational wave detectors", Phys. Rev. D, 69, 082003 (2004).
   [PRD | arxiv]

2. Neil J. Cornish and Louis J. Rubbo, "LISA response function", Phys. Rev. D, 67, 022001 (2003).
   [PRD | arxiv]

3. Thomas A. Prince, Massimo Tinto, Shane L. Larson and John W. Armstrong, "The LISA Optimal Sensitivity", Phys. Rev. D, 66, 122002 (2002).
   [PRD | arxiv]

4. Shane L. Larson, Ronald W. Hellings and William A. Hiscock, "Unequal arm space-borne gravitational wave detectors", Phys. Rev. D, 66, 062001 (2002).
   [PRD | arxiv]

5. Shane L. Larson, William A. Hiscock and Ronald W. Hellings, "Sensitivity curves for spaceborne gravitational wave interferometers", Phys. Rev. D, 62, 062001 (2000).
   [PRD | arxiv]

6. G. Giampieri, "On the Antenna Pattern of an Orbiting Interferometer", MNRAS 289, 185 (1997).
   [ADS | arXiv]

7. R. Schilling, "Angular and Frequency Response of LISA", Class. Quant. Grav. 14, 1513 (1997).
   [CQG]

Time Delay Interferometry (TDI)

1. D. A. Shaddock, "Operating LISA as a Sagnac Interferometer", Phys. Rev. D 69, 022001 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

2. M. Tinto, F. B. Estabrook and J. W. Armstrong, "Time Delay Interferometry with Moving Spacecraft Arrays", Phys. Rev. D 69, 082001 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

3. N. J. Cornish and R. W. Hellings, "The Effects of Orbital Motion on LISA Time Delay Interfrometry", Class. Quant. Grav. 20, 4851 (2003).
   [CQG | arXiv]

4. M. Tinto, D. A. Shaddock, J. Sylvestre and J. W. Armstrong, "Implementation of Time-Delay Interferometry for LISA", Phys. Rev. D 67, 122003 (2003).
   [PRD | arXiv]

5. D. A. Shaddock, M. Tinto, F. B. Estabrook and J. W. Armstrong, "Data Combinations Accounting for LISA Spacecraft Motion", Phys. Rev. D 68, 061303(R) (2003).
   [PRD | arXiv]

6. R. W. Hellings, "Elimination of Clock Jitter Noise in Spaceborne Laser Interferometers", Phys. Rev. D 62, 022002 (2001).
   [PRD | arXiv]

7. Massimo Tinto and John W. Armstrong, "Cancellation of laser noise in an unequal-arm interferometer detector of gravitational radiation", Phys. Rev. D, 59, 102003 (1999).
   [PRD]

8. J. W. Armstrong, F. B. Estabrook and Massimo Tinto, "Time-Delay Interferometry for Space-based Gravitational Wave Searches", Astroph. J., 527, 814 (1999).
   [ApJ]

Sources

1. Jonathan R. Gair et al., "Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 21, 1595 (2004).
   [CQG | arxiv]

2. A. Cooray, A. J. Farmer and N. Seto, "Optical Identification of Close White Dwarf Binaries in the LISA Era", Astrophys. J. 601, L47 (2004).
   [ApJ | arXiv]

3. M. Freitag, "Gravitational waves from stars orbiting the Sagittarius A* black hole", Astrophys. J. 583, L21 (2003).
   [ApJ | arXiv]

4. S. A. Hughes, "Untangling the Merger History of Massive Black Holes with LISA", MNRAS 331, 805 (2002).
   [MNRAS | arXiv]

5. M. J. Benacquista, S. Portegies Zwart and F. A. Rasio, "LISA Sources in Globular Clusters", Class. Quant. Grav. 18, 4025 (2001).
   [CQG | arXiv]

6. M. Meliani, J. de Araujo and O. Aguiar, "Cataclysmic variables as sources of gravitational waves", Astron. & Astrophys. 358, 417 (2000).
   [A+A | arXiv]

7. L. S. Finn and K. S. Thorne, "Gravitational Waves from a Compact Star in a Circular, Inspiral Orbit, in the Equitorial Plane of a Massive, Spinning Black Hole, as Observed by LISA", Phys. Rev. D 62, 124021 (2000).
   [PRD | arXiv]

8. B. F. Schutz, "Low-Frequency Sources of Gravitational Waves: A Tutorial", (1997).
   [arXiv]

Astrophysical Foregrounds/Backgrounds

1. Leor Barack and Curt Cutler, "Confusion Noise from LISA Capture Sources", (2004).
   [arxiv]

2. M. J. Benacquista, J. Degoes and D. Lunder, "A simulation of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna data stream from galactic white dwarf binaries", Class. Quant. Grav. 21, S509 (2004).
   [CQG | arxiv]

3. A. J. Farmer and E. S. Phinney, "The Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Compact Binaries", MNRAS 346, 1197 (2003).
   [MNRAS | arxiv]

4. R. Schneider, V. Ferrari, S. Matarrese and S. Portegies Zwart, "Low-frequency gravitational waves from cosmological compact binaries", MNRAS 324, 797 (2001).
   [MNRAS | arxiv]

5. G. Nelemans, L. R. Yungelson and S. F. Portegies Zwart, "The Gravitational Wave Signal from the Galactic Disk Population of Binaries Containing Two Compact Objects", A&A 375, 890 (2001).
   [A&A | arXiv]

6. W. A. Hiscock, S. L. Larson, J. R. Routzahn and B. Kulick, "Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves from White Dwarf Macho Binaries", Astroph. J. 540, L5 (2000).
   [ApJ | arXiv]

7. D. Hils and P. L. Bender, "Gravitational Radiation from Helium Cataclysmics", Astroph. J. 537, 334 (2000).
   [ApJ]

8. W. A. Hiscock, "Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Macho Binaries", Astroph. J. 509, L101 (1998).
   [ADS | arXiv]

9. D. I. Kosenko and K. A. Postnov, "On the Gravitational Wave Noise from Unresolved Extragalactic Binaries", Astron. Astrophys. 336, 786 (1998).
   [A&A | arXiv]

10. K. A. Postnov and M. E. Prokhorov, "Galactic Binary Gravitational Wave Noise Within the LISA Frequency Band", Astroph. J. 494, 674 (1998).
    [ADS | arXiv]

11. P. L. Bender and D. Hils, "Confusion Noise Level due to Galactic and Extragalactic Binaries", Class. Quant. Grav. 14, 1439 (1997).
    [CQG]

12. D. Hils, "Gravitational Radiation from Dual Neutron Star Elliptical Binaries", Astroph. J. 381, 484 (1991).
    [ADS]

13. D. Hils, P. L. Bender and R. F. Webbink, "Gravitational Radiation from the Galaxy", Astroph. J. 360, 75 (1990).
    [ADS]

14. C. R. Evans, I. Iben and L. Smarr, "Degenerate Dwarf Binaries as Promising, Detectable Sources of Gravitational Radiation", Astroph. J. 323, 129 (1987).
    [ADS]

Mapping Foregrounds/Backgrounds

1. N. Seto and A. Cooray, "LISA Measurement of Gravitational Wave Background Anisotropy: Hexadecapole Moment via a Correlation Analysis", Phys. Rev. D 70, 123005 (2004).
   [PRD]

2. N. Seto, "Annual Modulation of the Galactic Binary Confusion Noise Background and LISA Data Analysis", Phys. Rev. D 69, 123005 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

3. N. J. Cornish, "Making Maps With LISA", Class. Quant. Grav. 19, 1279 (2002).
   [CQG]

4. Neil J. Cornish "Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA", Phys. Rev. D, 65, 022004 (2002).
   [PRD | arxiv]

5. Neil J. Cornish "Mapping the gravitational wave background", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18, 4277 (2001).
   [CQG| arxiv]

6. Neil J. Cornish and Shane L. Larson "Space missions to detect the cosmic gravitational wave background", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 18, 3473 (2001).
   [CQG| arxiv]

7. G. Giampieri and A. G. Polnarev, "Detecting an Anisotropic Gravitational Wave Background with a Space-Borne Interferometer", MNRAS 291, 149 (1997).
   [ADS]

Data Analysis

1. Massimo Tinto and Shane L. Larson, "The LISA time-delay interferometry zero-signal solution I: geometrical properties", Phys. Rev. D, 70 062002 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

2. A. Krolak and M. Tinto, "Optimal filtering of the LISA data", to appear in Proceedings of the 10th Marcel Grossman Meeting (2004).
   [arXiv]

3. A. Krolak, M. Tinto and M. Vallisneri, "Optimal filtering of the LISA data", Phys. Rev. D 70, 022003 (2004).
   [PRD | arXiv]

4. S. E. Pollack, "LISA Science Results in the Presence of Data Disturbances", Class. Quant. Grav. 21, 3419 (2004).
   [CQG | arXiv]

5. Leor Barack and Curt Cutler, "LISA capture sources: Approximate waveforms, signal-to-noise ratios, and parameter estimation accuracy", Phys. Rev. D, 69, 082005 (2004).
   [PRD | arxiv]

6. Neil J. Cornish and Shane L. Larson "LISA data analysis: source identification and subtraction", Phys. Rev. D, 67, 103001 (2003).
   [PRD | arxiv]

7. Neil J. Cornish and Shane L. Larson "LISA data analysis: doppler demodulation", Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, 163 (2003).
   [CQG| arxiv]

8. Thomas A. Moore and Ronald W. Hellings, "Angular resolution of space-based gravitational wave detectors", Phys. Rev. D, 65, 062001 (2002).
   [PRD | arxiv]

9. N. Seto, "Effects of Finite Armlength of LISA on Analysis of Gravitational Waves from Massive-Black-Hole Binaries", Phys. Rev. D 66, 122001 (2002).
   [PRD | arXiv]

10. N. Seto, "Long-Term Operation of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and Galactic Close White Dwarf Binaries", MNRAS 333, 469 (2002).
    [MNRAS | arXiv]

11. R. Takahashi and N. Seto, "Parameter Estimation for Galactic Binaries by the Laser Inteferometer Space Antenna", Astroph. J. 575, 1030 (2002).
    [ApJ | arXiv]

12. M. Tinto, J. W. Armstrong and F. B. Estabrook, "Discriminating a Gravitational Wave Background from Instrumental Noise in the LISA Detector", Phys. Rev. D 63, 021101(R) (2000).
    [PRD]

13. Curt Cutler, "Angular resolution of the LISA gravitational wave detector", Phys. Rev. D, 57, 7089 (1998).
    [PRD | arxiv]

14. B. F. Schutz, "Introduction to the Analysis of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Data", (1997).
    [arXiv]

Population Synthesis

1. Jarrod R. Hurley, Chirstopher A. Tout and Onno R. Pols, "Evolution of binary stars and the effect of tides on binary populations", MNRAS 329, 897 (2002).
   [MNRAS | arxiv]

2. Krzysztof Belczynski, Vassiliki Kalogera and Tomasz Bulik, "A comprehensive study of binary compact objects as gravitational wave sources", Astroph. J., 572, 407 (2002).
   [ApJ | arxiv]

3. B. Willems and U. Kolb, "Population synthesis of wide binary millisecond pulsars", MNRAS, 337, 1004 (2002).
   [MNRAS | arxiv]

4. G. Nelemans, L. R. Yungelson, S. F. Portegies Zwart and F. Verbunt, "Population Synthesis for Double White Dwarfs I. Close Detached Systems", A&A 365, 491 (2001).
   [A&A | arXiv]

5. G. Nelemans, S. F. Portegies Zwart, F. Verbunt and L. R. Yungelson, "Population Synthesis for Double White Dwarfs II. Semi-Detaced Systems: AM CVn Stars", A&A 368, 939 (2001).
   [A&A | arXiv]

Doppler Response Formalism

1. R. Hellings, "Spacecraft-Doppler Gravity-Wave Detection. I. Theory", Phys. Rev. D 23, 832 (1981).
   [PROLA]

2. F. B. Estabrook and H. D. Wahlquist, "Response of Doppler Spacecraft Tracking to Gravitational Radiation", Gen. Rel. & Grav. 6, 439 (1975).
   [ADS]

Miscellaneous/Useful

1. P. C. Peters and J. Mathews, "Gravitational Radiation from Point Masses in a Keplerian Orbit", Phys. Rev. 131, 435 (1963).
   [PROLA]

2. P. C. Peters, "Gravitational Radiation and the Motion of Two Point Masses ", Phys. Rev. 136, B1224 (1964).
   [PROLA]

3. Hugo D. Wahlquist, "The Doppler response to gravitational waves from a binary star source", Gen. Rel. Grav, 19, 1101 (1987).
   [ADS]