Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Creators: name: Afshordi, Niaesh
name: Akçay, Sarp
name: Seoane, Pau Amaro
name: Antonelli, Andrea
name: Aurrekoetxea, Josu C.
name: Barack, Leor
name: Barausse, Enrico
name: Benkel, Robert
name: Bernard, Laura
name: Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
name: Berti, Emanuele
name: Bonetti, Matteo
name: Bonga, Béatrice
name: Bozzola, Gabriele
name: Brito, Richard
name: Buonanno, Alessandra
name: Cárdenas-Avendaño, Alejandro
name: Casals, Marc
name: Chernoff, David F.
name: Chua, Alvin J. K.
name: Clough, Katy
name: Colleoni, Marta
name: Dhesi, Mekhi
name: Druart, Adrien
name: Durkan, Leanne
name: Faye, Guillaume
name: Ferguson, Deborah
name: Field, Scott E.
name: Gabella, William E.
name: García-Bellido, Juan
name: Gracia-Linares, Miguel
name: Gerosa, Davide
name: Green, Stephen R.
name: Haney, Maria
name: Hannam, Mark
name: Heffernan, Anna
name: Hinderer, Tanja
name: Helfer, Thomas
name: Hughes, Scott A.
name: Husa, Sascha
name: Isoyama, Soichiro
name: Katz, Michael L.
name: Kavanagh, Chris
name: Khanna, Gaurav
name: Kidder, Larry E.
name: Korol, Valeriya
name: Küchler, Lorenzo
name: Laguna, Pablo
name: Larrouturou, François
name: Le Tiec, Alexandre
name: Leather, Benjamin
name: Lim, Eugene A.
name: Lim, Hyun
name: Littenberg, Tyson B.
name: Long, Oliver
name: Lousto, Carlos O.
name: Lovelace, Geoffrey
name: Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios
name: Lynch, Philip
name: Macedo, Rodrigo P.
name: Markakis, Charalampos
name: Maggio, Elisa
name: Mandel, Ilya
name: Maselli, Andrea
name: Mathews, Josh
name: Mourier, Pierre
name: Neilsen, David
name: Nagar, Alessandro
name: Nichols, David A.
name: Novák, Jan
name: Okounkova, Maria
name: O'Shaughnessy, Richard
name: Oshita, Naritaka
name: O'Toole, Conor
name: Pan, Zhen
name: Pani, Paolo
name: Pappas, George
name: Paschalidis, Vasileios
name: Pfeiffer, Harald P.
name: Pompili, Lorenzo
name: Pound, Adam
name: Pratten, Geraint
name: Rüter, Hannes R.
name: Ruiz, Milton
name: Sam, Zeyd
name: Sberna, Laura
name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
name: Shoemaker, Deirdre M.
name: Sopuerta, Carlos F.
name: Spiers, Andrew
name: Sundar, Hari
name: Tamanini, Nicola
name: Thompson, Jonathan E.
name: Toubiana, Alexandre
name: Tsokaros, Antonios
name: Upton, Samuel D.
name: van de Meent, Maarten
name: Vernieri, Daniele
name: Wachter, Jeremy M.
name: Warburton, Niels
name: Wardell, Barry
name: Witek, Helvi
name: Witzany, Vojtˇech
name: Yang, Huan
name: Zilhão, Miguel
name: Arun, K. G.
name: Bezares, Miguel
name: Bonilla, Alexander
name: Chapman-Bird, Christian
name: Compère, Geoffrey
name: Cownden, Bradley
name: Cunningham, Kevin
name: Devitt, Chris
name: Dolan, Sam
name: Duque, Francisco
name: Dyson, Conor
name: Fryer, Chris L.
name: Gair, Jonathan R.
name: Giacomazzo, Bruno
name: Gupta, Priti
name: Han, Wen-Biao
name: Haas, Roland
name: Hirschmann, Eric W.
name: Huerta, E. A.
name: Jetzer, Philippe
name: Kelly, Bernard
name: Khalil, Mohammed
name: Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole
name: Marsat, Sylvain
name: Nardini, Germano
name: Neef, Jakob
name: Ottewill, Adrian
name: Pantelidou, Christiana
name: Piovano, Gabriel Andres
name: Redondo-Yuste, Jaime
name: Sagunski, Laura
name: Stein, Leo C.
name: Skoupý, Viktor
name: Sperhake, Ulrich
name: Speri, Lorenzo
name: Spieksma, Thomas F. M.
name: Stevens, Chris
name: Trestini, David
name: Vañó-Viñuales, Alex
name: LISA Consortium Waveform Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: LISA
gravitational radiation: frequency
black hole: binary: coalescence
gravitational radiation detector
binary: compact
capture
galaxy
wave function
black hole: mass

description: 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 beginnings of inspirals that will 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.