38th ESLAB Symposium

5th International LISA Symposium

The 5th International LISA Symposium was held from July 12th to July 15th 2004 at ESTEC. Almost 200 attendees registered, 77 talks and about 30 posters were given. The final programme contains links to electronic versions of the talks given.

The proceedings of this conference have been published as a special edition of Classical and Quantum Gravity (Volume 22, Number 10, 21 May 2005).

Final Programme

 

 

Monday, 12 July

Opening Session
08.00
Registration
08.45
O. Jennrich: Welcome
 Paper
09.00
K. Danzmann: LISA - the mission
09.30
B. Schutz: LISA and GR
10.00
A. Vecchio: Astrophysics of LISA
10.30
Coffee Break
LISA Pathfinder
11.00
G. Racca: LISA Pathfinder and the LTP experiment
Paper
11.30
W. Folkner: ST-7 experiment (presented by S.Buchman)
12.00
W. Fichter: LISA Pathfinder Drag-Free Control: Closed Loop Performance and System Implications
 Paper
12.30
R. Dolesi: GRS: progress for LTP
13.00
Lunch
14.00
L. Carbone: Ground testing of the GRS
14.15
S. Buchman: GRS for ST-7
14.35
J. Gundlach: Torsion balance Measurement of Forces Between Closely Spaced Surfaces
14.55
Coffee Break
15.25
G. Heinzel: The LTP interferometer and Phasemeter
15.55
D. Robertson: LTP Interferometer - Noise Sources and Performance
 Paper
16.15
M. Cruise: Implementation of the LTP interferometer phasemeter
 Paper
16.25
B. Spero: ST-7 Interferometer
16.45
Coffee Break
17.15
A. Lobo: Thermal diagnostics for LTP
 Paper
17.30
M. Armano: Gravitational Balance on LTP
 Paper
17.40
J. Evans: Plans for Compensation of Self-Gravity on ST-7/DRS
 Paper
17.50
S.Tobin: LISA Pathfinder Caging Mechanism EM
18.00
S. Buchman: DRS Caging
18.10
Adjourn
Tuesday, 13 July

Ground Based
08.00
Coffee Break
08.15
D. Shoemaker: Status of LIGO
08.45
P. Brady: LSC Data Analysis
09.15
L. Di Fiore: Virgo Status and commissioning results
 Paper
09.45
Coffee Break
10.05
K. Hayama: Status of TAMA
10.35
H. Grote: Status of GEO 600
 Paper
11.05
P. Barriga: Status of ACIGA high power test facility for advanced interferometry
 Paper
11.25
Coffee Break
11.45
D. Southwood: The ESA Science Programme
12.00
E. Coccia: Explorer/Nautilus: status and recent results
12.15
J-P. Zendri: Broad Band acoustic detectors
12.30
O. Aguiar: The Brazilian gravitational wave detector Mario Schenberg: progress and plans
 Paper
12.45
A. de Waard: MiniGRAIL
 Paper
13.00
Lunch
LISA Instrumental I
14.00
B. Sheard: Laser frequency noise suppression by arm locking in LISA
 Paper
14.20
I. Thorpe: Experimental test of time delay interferometry
 Paper
14.40
A.Garcia: Experimental test of arm locking technique
 Paper
15.00
Coffee Break
15.30
C. Killow: Phase locking for LISA
15.50
P. McNamara: Laser Transponder for LISA
 Paper
16.10
D. Summers: LISA phase measurements system: simulation and results
 Paper
16.55
J. Ziemer: Micropropulsion USA
17.15
Coffee Break
17.40
S. Rowan: Silicate bonding for use in stable optical systems for space
 Paper
18.00
C. Speake: Optical sensing for drag-free (presented by M. Cruise)
 Paper
18.10
L. DiFiore: An optical readout system for the drag free control of LISA
 Paper
18.20
K.-S. Sun: Alternative gravitational and optical reference architecture for high-precision space laser interferometers
 Paper
18.30
Adjourn
Wednesday, 14 July

LISA Instrumental II
08.30
Coffee Break
08.45
D. Shaul: Evaluation of disturbances due to LISA test mass charging
 Paper
09.00
H. Araujo: Charging of the LISA and LISA-PF test masses by galactic cosmic rays
 Paper
09.15
P. Wass: Variations in the particle spectrum incident on the LISA test masses
09.30
H. Vocca: Simulation of the charging processes of the LISA test masses due to solar particles
 Paper
09.45
C. Grimani: The role of cosmic ray nucleii and electrons in the LISA test mass charging rate
 Paper
10.00
Coffee Break and Poster session
11.40
W. Folkner: Nominal frequency allocation plan for LISA (presented by D. Shaddock)
12.00
W. Schaefer: Advanced ranging and time/frequency transfer techniques for LISA
12.20
D. Shaddock: Post-processing implementation of time-delay interferometry with interpolation
12.40
P. Bender: Wavefront Distortion and Beam Pointing for LISA
 Paper
13.00
Lunch
Astrophysical Sources I
14.00
N. White: The NASA Beyond Einstein Program
14.25
S. Portegies Zwart: Intermediate mass black holes in dense star clusters as gravitational wave sources
14.50
E.S. Phinney: Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei and LISA
15.15
Coffee Break
15.45
M. Cappellari: Dynamical modeling and black holes of SAURON galaxies
 Paper
16.10
J. Centrella: Observing massive black hole binary coalescences with LISA
 Paper
16.35
A. Sesana: Low-frequency gravitational radiation from coalescing massive black holes
 Paper
17.00
Coffee Break
Poster Session
17.30
Poster authors are kindly asked to attend their posters
19.00
Adjourn
Thursday, 15 July

Astrophysical Sources II
08.35
V. Kalogera: Galactic Double Neutron Stars for LISA
09.00
C. Lousto: Gravitational radiation from binary black holes as sources for LISA
 Paper
09.25
Coffee Break
09.45
Y. Mino: Extreme Mass Ratio Binary: Radiation reaction and gravitational waveform
 Paper
10.05
G. Achamveedu: Phasing of gravitational waves from inspiralling eccentric binaries
 Paper
10:25 M. Campanelli: The coalescence remenant of spinning binary black holes Paper
10.45
A.D.A.M. Spallicci: Capture of stars by black holes: radiation reaction
11:05 Coffee Break
   
Modelling and Simulation
11.30
N. Cornish: The Mock LISA Data Archive
11.45
S. Merkowitz: Self-gravity modeling for LISA
 Paper
12.00
H. Peabody: LISA thermal design
 Paper
12.15
S. Merkowitz: LISA propulsion module separation study
 Paper
12.30
P. Maghami: An acquisition control for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
 Paper
12.45
T.H. Sweetser: An end-to-end trajectory description of the LISA mission
 Paper
13.00
Lunch
Data Analysis for LISA
14.00
T. Prince: LISA analysis challenges
14.20
B. Schutz: Summary of Potsdam Conference
14.40
N. Cornish: Untangling LISA source confusion
15:00 Coffee Break
15.20
A. Vecchio: Parameter Estimation
15.40
M. Tinto: Time Delay Interferometry for LISA
16.00
R.K. Nayak: Algebraic Approach in Time-Delay Data Analysis for Orbiting LISA
 Paper
16.15
Coffee Break
16:45 J.Gair: Detection of extreme mass ratio inspirals with LISA: Search strategy and detection rate estimates Paper
17.00
L. Barack: Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral
17.15
M. Vallisneri: Tools: Simulators and archives
Conclusions
17.30
O. Jennrich: Concluding remarks
17.45
Adjourn
Posters
E. Garcia-Berro et al: Gravitational wave radiation from the merging of white dwarfs
A.D.A.M. Spallicci and B. Chauvineau: Capture of stars by black holes: Brans-Dicke theory
 Paper
A.D.A.M. Spallicci: Capture of stars by black holes: Waveforms
 Paper
A.D.A.M. Spallicci: Detection improvement of coalescing binaries by mirror thermal noise reduction
G. Garcia-Cuadrado et al: Primordial gravitational waves from Modified gravity
De Aranjo: Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves detectable by the Brazilian spherical antenna
Paik: Wideband gravitational wave detection on the Moon
Cruise and Ingley: A correlation detector for high frequency gravitational waves
 Paper
K. Aplin: A Field Effect Spacecraft Neutraliser for the LISA Pathfinder Mission
 Paper
M. Landgraf: Mission Design for LISA Pathfinder
 Paper
N. Brandt: End-To-End Performance Simulation For Lisa Pathfinder
 Paper
D. Smart: LISA Pathfinder Caging Mechanism EM
J. Evans: Plan for Compensation of Self-Gravity on ST-7/DRS
 Paper
D. Desiderio: Gravitational Reference Sensor EM for LISA Pathfinder
N. Solway: Design And Performance Of A Micronewton Proportional Thruster
N. Dunbar: The system challenges of Smart-2/LISA Pathfinder
M. Armano: Gravitational Balance on LTP
VV: The LTP Science Requirements
Carbone: Torsion pendulum ground testing
 Paper
K. Hayama: Reducing Binary Confusion Noise
 Paper
M. Tinto: The LISA Zero-Signal Solution
 Paper
M. Vallisneri: Observing Binary Systems with LISA: parameter estimation
M. Vallisneri: Synthetic LISA: simulation data-analysis and interferometry in a model LISA
A. Krolak: Optimal filtering of the LISA data
L. Barack: SNR estimates, parameter extraction accuracy, and the effect of confusion background from inspirals
J. Gair: Detection of extreme mass ratio inspirals with LISA: Search strategy and detection rate estimates
J. Edlund: Simulating the white-dwarf galactic background in the LISA data
M. Seko: LISA and Gravitational Wave Background Anisotropies