Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Creators: name: Seoane, Pau Amaro
name: Andrews, Jeff
name: Sedda, Manuel Arca
name: Askar, Abbas
name: Baghi, Quentin
name: Balasov, Razvan
name: Bartos, Imre
name: Bavera, Simone S.
name: Bellovary, Jillian
name: Berry, Christopher P. L.
name: Berti, Emanuele
name: Bianchi, Stefano
name: Blecha, Laura
name: Blondin, Stephane
name: Bogdanović, Tamara
name: Boissier, Samuel
name: Bonetti, Matteo
name: Bonoli, Silvia
name: Bortolas, Elisa
name: Breivik, Katelyn
name: Capelo, Pedro R.
name: Caramete, Laurentiu
name: Cattorini, Federico
name: Charisi, Maria
name: Chaty, Sylvain
name: Chen, Xian
name: Chruślińska, Martyna
name: Chua, Alvin J. K.
name: Church, Ross
name: Colpi, Monica
name: D'Orazio, Daniel
name: Danielski, Camilla
name: Davies, Melvyn B.
name: Dayal, Pratika
name: De Rosa, Alessandra
name: Derdzinski, Andrea
name: Destounis, Kyriakos
name: Dotti, Massimo
name: Duţan, Ioana
name: Dvorkin, Irina
name: Fabj, Gaia
name: Foglizzo, Thierry
name: Ford, Saavik
name: Fouvry, Jean-Baptiste
name: Franchini, Alessia
name: Fragos, Tassos
name: Fryer, Chris
name: Gaspari, Massimo
name: Gerosa, Davide
name: Graziani, Luca
name: Groot, Paul
name: Habouzit, Melanie
name: Haggard, Daryl
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Han, Wen-Biao
name: Istrate, Alina
name: Johansson, Peter H.
name: Khan, Fazeel Mahmood
name: Kimpson, Tomas
name: Kokkotas, Kostas
name: Kong, Albert
name: Korol, Valeriya
name: Kremer, Kyle
name: Kupfer, Thomas
name: Lamberts, Astrid
name: Larson, Shane
name: Lau, Mike
name: Liu, Dongliang
name: Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole
name: Lodato, Giuseppe
name: Lupi, Alessandro
name: Ma, Chung-Pei
name: Maccarone, Tomas
name: Mandel, Ilya
name: Mangiagli, Alberto
name: Mapelli, Michela
name: Mathis, Steéphane
name: Mayer, Lucio
name: McGee, Sean
name: McKernan, Berry
name: Miller, M. Coleman
name: Mota, David F.
name: Mumpower, Matthew
name: Nasim, Syeda S
name: Nelemans, Gijs
name: Noble, Scott
name: Pacucci, Fabio
name: Panessa, Francesca
name: Paschalidis, Vasileio
name: Pfister, Hugo
name: Porquet, Delphine
name: Quenby, John
name: Ricarte, Angelo
name: Röpke, Friedrich K.
name: Regan, John
name: Rosswog, Stephan
name: Ruiter, Ashley
name: Ruiz, Milton
name: Runnoe, Jessie
name: Schneider, Raffaella
name: Schnittman, Jeremy
name: Secunda, Amy
name: Sesana, Alberto
name: Seto, Naoki
name: Shao, Lijing
name: Shapiro, Stuart
name: Sopuerta, Carlos
name: Stone, Nicholas C.
name: Suvorov, Arthur
name: Tamanini, Nicola
name: Tamfal, Tomas
name: Tauris, Thomas
name: Temmink, Karel
name: Tomsick, John
name: Toonen, Silvia
name: Torres-Orjuela, Alejandro
name: Toscani, Martina
name: Tsokaros, Antonios
name: Unal, Caner
name: Vázquez-Aceves, Verónica
name: Valiante, Rosa
name: van Putten, Maurice
name: van Roestel, Jan
name: Vignali, Christian
name: Volonteri, Marta
name: Wu, Kinwah
name: Younsi, Ziri
name: Yu, Shenghua
name: Zane, Silvia
name: Zwick, Lorenz
name: Antonini, Fabio
name: Baibhav, Vishal
name: Barausse, Enrico
name: Rivera, Alexander Bonilla
name: Branchesi, Marica
name: Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella
name: Burdge, Kevin
name: Chakraborty, Srija
name: Cuadra, Jorge
name: Dage, Kristen
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: de Mink, Selma E.
name: Decarli, Roberto
name: Doneva, Daniela
name: Escoffier, Stephanie
name: Fragione, Giacomo
name: Gandhi, Poshak
name: Haardt, Francesco
name: Lousto, Carlos O.
name: Nissanke, Samaya
name: Nordhaus, Jason
name: O'Shaughnessy, Richard
name: Zwart, Simon Portegies
name: Pound, Adam
name: Schussler, Fabian
name: Sergijenko, Olga
name: Spallicci, Alessandro
name: Vernieri, Daniele
name: Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address many key astrophysical questions in a completely novel way. The synergy with ground-based and space-born instruments in the electromagnetic domain, by enabling multi-messenger observations, will add further to the discovery potential of LISA. The next decade is crucial to prepare the astrophysical community for LISA's first observations. This review outlines the extensive landscape of astrophysical theory, numerical simulations, and astronomical observations that are instrumental for modeling and interpreting the upcoming LISA datastream. To this aim, the current knowledge in three main source classes for LISA is reviewed; ultracompact stellar-mass binaries, massive black hole binaries, and extreme or intermediate mass ratio inspirals. The relevant astrophysical processes and the established modeling techniques are summarized. Likewise, open issues and gaps in our understanding of these sources are highlighted, along with an indication of how LISA could help making progress in the different areas. New research avenues that LISA itself, or its joint exploitation with upcoming studies in the electromagnetic domain, will enable, are also illustrated. Improvements in modeling and analysis approaches, such as the combination of numerical simulations and modern data science techniques, are discussed. This review is intended to be a starting point for using LISA as a new discovery tool for understanding our Universe.