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Multimessenger Science Opportunities with mHz Gravitational WavesLISA will open the mHz band of gravitational waves (GWs) to the astronomy community. Thestrong gravity which powers the variety of GW sources in this band is also crucial in a numberof important astrophysical processes at the current frontiers of astronomy. These range fromthe beginning of structure formation in the early universe, through the origin and cosmic evolutionof massive black holes in concert with their galactic environments, to the evolution ofstellar remnant binaries in the Milky Way and in nearby galaxies. These processes and theirassociated populations also drive current and future observations across the electromagnetic(EM) spectrum. We review opportunities for science breakthroughs, involving either direct coincidentEM+GW observations, or indirect multimessenger studies. We argue that for the UScommunity to fully capitalize on the opportunities from the LISA mission, the US efforts shouldbe accompanied by a coordinated and sustained program of multi-disciplinary science investment,following the GW data through to its impact on broad areas of astrophysics. Supportfor LISA-related multimessenger observers and theorists should be sized appropriately for aflagship observatory and may be coordinated through a dedicated mHz GW research center.
Document ID
20190002319
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Baker, John (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Haiman, Zoltan (Columbia Univ. New York, NY, United States)
Rossi, Elena Maria (Leiden University Leiden, Netherlands)
Berger, Edo (Harvard Univ. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Brandt, Niel (Pennsylvania State Univ. University Park, PA, United States)
Breedt, Elme (University of Cambridge Cambridge, England)
Breivik, Katelyn (University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Charisi, Maria (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, United States)
Derdzinski, Andrea (Columbia Univ. New York, NY, United States)
D’Orazio, Daniel J. (Harvard Univ. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Ford, Saavik (City Univ. of New York Brooklyn, NY, United States)
Greene, Jenny E. (Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ, United States)
Hill, J. Colin (Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ, United States)
Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly (Vanderbilt Univ. Nashville, TN, United States)
Key, Joey Shapiro (Washington Univ. Bothell, WA, United States)
Kocsis, Bence (Eotvos Lorand University Budapest, Hungary)
Kupfer, Thomas (California Univ. Santa Barbara, CA, United States)
Larson, Shane (Northwestern University Evanston, IL, United States)
Madau, Piero (California Univ. Santa Cruz, CA, United States)
Marsh, Thomas (Warwick Univ. Coventry, United Kingdom)
McKernan, Barry (City Univ. of New York Brooklyn, NY, United States)
McWilliams, Sean T. (West Virginia Univ. Fairmont, WV, United States)
Natarajan, Priyamvada (Yale Univ. New Haven, CT, United States)
Nissanke, Samaya (Amsterdam Univ. Netherlands)
Noble, Scott (Tulsa Univ. OK, United States)
Phinney, E. Sterl (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, United States)
Ramsay, Gavin (Armagh Observatory Ireland)
Schnittman, Jeremy (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Sesana, Alberto (University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Shoemaker, David (LIGO Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, United States)
Stone, Nicholas (Columbia Univ. New York, NY, United States)
Toonen, Silvia (Amsterdam Univ. Netherlands)
Trakhtenbrot, Benny (Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel)
Vikhlinin, Alexey (Harvard Univ. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Volonteri, Marta (Institut d'Astrophysique Paris, France)
Date Acquired
April 11, 2019
Publication Date
March 20, 2019
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN66947
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNH15CO48B
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Use by or on behalf of the US Gov. Permitted.

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