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	LISA (astronomy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		LISA is intended to measure gravitational waves by using laser interferometry over astronomical distances.
		The LISA instrument should be able to measure displacements with a resolution of 20 picometers over a distance of 5 million kilometers, yielding a strain sensitivity of better than 1 part in 10^20.
		A single satellite ("LISA Pathfinder") is due to be launched in 2009 to validate the design and configuration of the definitive mission in 2012–2013.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LISA_(astronomy) (632 words)

	LISA: Laser Interferomter Space Antenna Project
		LISA is a constellation of three spacecraft that uses laser interferometry to precisely measure distance changes between widely separated freely falling test masses housed in each spacecraft.
		LISA should observe low frequency gravitational radiation from likely sources out to cosmological distances, and would be an important complement to the ground-based experiments already being operated.
		LISA is a NASA/ESA mission and is expected to launch at the beginning of the next decade.
	lisa.gsfc.nasa.gov (209 words)

	ESA - Science - Home - LISA overview
		The LISA spacecraft must be able to compensate for the constant low-level buffeting by the solar wind and to correct for minute orbital changes introduced by solar radiation pressure.
		In May 1993, the LISA mission was proposed by a team of United States and European scientists as a joint ESA/NASA mission.
		A six-spacecraft version of LISA was suggested in October 1993, as a candidate for a Cornerstone mission under the former ESA's Horizon 2000 Plus programme.
	www.esa.int /export/esaSC/120376_index_0_m.html (1478 words)

	Spying on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA
		LISA works by setting out three spacecraft -- buoys in spacetime -- and measuring the change in their separation as they bob in response to passing gravitational waves.
		The three LISA spacecraft will be separated from each other by over 3 million miles, while the gravitational waves alter the distance between them by far less than the width of an atom.
		LISA is a joint venture between NASA, the European Space Agency, and European national space agencies.
	universe.nasa.gov /press/2005/050113a.html (709 words)

	Imagine the Universe! LISA Special Exhibit
		The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a next-generation project proposed by NASA to detect some of the weakest (and perhaps most interesting) gravitational waves.
		When a low-frequency gravitational wave passes, LISA will be able to detect slight changes in the distance between the corners of the triangle.
		LISA can measure a change in length approximately 1000 times smaller than the diameter of an atom (or about 30 times the size of the nucleus of an atom!).
	imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/features/exhibit/lisa_exhibit.html (746 words)

	Beyond Einstein: The Program
		The three LISA spacecraft will be separated from each other by over five million kilometers (three million miles), while the gravitational waves alter the distance between them by far less than the width of an atom.
		The LISA spacecraft will be "tethered" together by a laser, which measures changes in the distances between blocks of metal residing in each of the spacecraft.
		Yet the engineering challenges are great: LISA's lasers must detect changes in distances as small as a few picometers (a few billionths of a centimeter) over a length of millions of kilometers.
	universe.nasa.gov /program/lisa.html (266 words)

	indice2
		This conference was the third in a series: LISA I (IAU Colloquium 110) was held at the Naval Observatory, Washington, in 1988 and LISA II (an IAU Technical Workshop) was held at the European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany, in 1995.
		LISA III provided an opportunity for librarians, publishers, and scientists to examine the current state of the art of information maintenance, delivery, and preservation, as well as to learn from invited experts the directions in which our profession is moving.
		LISA III was an Euroconference as it was partially supported by the European Commission under its TMR programme (4th Framework Programme).
	www.iac.es /biblio/lisa (293 words)

	Measuring the Distance of the LMC \| Astronomy Blog
		Astronomy Blog » archive » Measuring the Distance of the LMC
		LISA is another joint mission between ESA and NASA but this doesn't take pretty pictures of stars.
		The paper claims that LISA could detect as many as 22 white dwarf binaries in the LMC, via gravitational waves.
	www.strudel.org.uk /blog/astro/000164.shtml (491 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium: Panel Reports (2001)
		It is hoped that LISA will be put forward as a joint mission for launch before the end of the first decade of this new century.
		LISA will also survey the gravitational radiation from galactic white-dwarf binaries and possibly study gravitational fluctuations from the early universe.
		Both the frequency range and the science of LISA are complementary to those of the ground-based interferometers (Figure 3.2).
	www.nap.edu /books/0309070376/html/143.html (733 words)

	LISA
		LISA is the near infrared camera for VINCI, the test instrument for the VLT interferometer.
		The collimator is located outside the cryostat, the beam is deflected into LISA by a plane mirror which can be replaced by a grating for the observation of dispersed fringes.
		LISA detects the light from 4 single-mode-fibers (6.4µm core diameter) located at the corners of a square of 125µm length in the focal plane of the warm collimator.
	www.mpe.mpg.de /ir/instruments/lisa/lisa.php?lang=en (478 words)

	Hubble Heritage
		Lisa Frattare is a native of Rochester, NY, and received her undergraduate degrees in Clinical Psychology (cum laude) at SUNY Oswego and Physics/Astronomy at Arizona State University.
		Lisa has helped plan observations for more than 70 Heritage orbits, the collection of which can be seen in the Heritage gallery.
		Lisa is married to Jim Wisniewski, whom she met at Oswego State in 1985.
	heritage.stsci.edu /2003/24/bio/bio_frattare.html (356 words)

	Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
		The LISA observatory will be complemented by both resonant-mass and laser-interferometry ground detectors——an international network of gravity wave observatories.
		The test masses are not free falling, but are suspended, and the interferometer arm lengths are much shorter than LISA's.
		LISA will "hear" the final years of radiation from the coalescence of massive fl holes, with masses 10 to a million times the mass of the Sun, as well as small objects like stars falling into supermassive fl holes.
	lisa.jpl.nasa.gov /STRATEGY/complement-det2.html (394 words)

	E. Sterl Phinney
		LISA operates at much lower frequencies than ground-based detectors like LIGO, and there is no overlap in the sources expected.
		LISA is recommended by the NAS/NRC panel on Gravitational Physics (Dec 1999).
		LISA is top new moderate initiative for NASA recommended by the NAS/NRC decadal survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (May 2000).
	www.its.caltech.edu /~esp (840 words)

	Astronomy to Go
		ASTRONOMY TO GO was officially founded in 1990, but was really just a new vehicle for a group of amateurs to combine forces and ideas and to continue the work they had been doing individually for years – PUBLIC EDUCATION.
		Bob and Lisa are also regular fixtures with ASTRONOMY TO GO At many Astro-gatherings around the country, such as the Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys, the Texas Star Party, Riverside (California) Astronomy Expo, Astrofest (outside of Chicago), as well as at numerous Science Teacher Conferences across the US.
		ASTRONOMY TO GO considers itself to be the caretakers of this special telescope and by bringing it around to the various Star Parties thousands of amateur astronomers across the country can view the splendors of the night sky through the amazing optics of this 36” mirror.
	www.astronomytogo.com (923 words)

	ScienceDaily: Penn State Scientists Spy On Black-hole Eating Habits With 'LISA'
		Large-scale structure of the cosmos -- Astronomy and cosmology examine the universe to understand the large-scale structure of the cosmos.
		Stellar evolution -- In astronomy, stellar evolution is the sequence of changes that a star undergoes during its lifetime; the hundreds of thousands, millions or billions of years during which it emits light and heat.
		Redshift -- In physics and astronomy, redshift is an observed increase in the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation received by a detector compared to that emitted by the source.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/01/050123213257.htm (2055 words)

	Lisa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lisa assembler, a 6502 assembler for Apple II Apple Lisa computer, the precursor to the Apple Macintosh
		Lisa Lopes, deceased member of the female American RandB trio TLC
		Lisa Marie Presley, American singer and daughter of Elvis Presley
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LISA (158 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Mission's path to new astronomy
		"Lisa could open a new window on the Universe, giving us completely different kinds of information to that obtained through all of the satellites and all of the Earth-based observatories we've ever had," Dr Harry Ward, from the Institute of Gravitational Physics at Glasgow University, told BBC News Online.
		And their instrumentation is fantastically sensitive, aiming to find deviations that can be equivalent to one one-thousandth of the width of a proton, one of the particles that make up all atoms.
		The spacecraft must be insulated from all extraneous "noise" that might swamp the measurements, from the gravity from their own components to the pressure of sunlight which will try to push the satellites off course.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3836435.stm (848 words)

	National Astronomy Meeting 2005 - Press Release 21
		LISA is expected to provide the best chance of success in the search for the exciting, low frequency gravity waves, said Professor Cruise.
		Scientists from the University of Birmingham, the University of Glasgow and Imperial College London are currently preparing the instrumentation for LISA Pathfinder in collaboration with ESA and colleagues in Germany, Italy, Holland, France, Spain and Switzerland.
		The 2005 RAS National Astronomy Meeting is hosted by the University of Birmingham, and sponsored by the Royal Astronomical and the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).
	www.sr.bham.ac.uk /nam2005/pr21.html (912 words)

	Heritage Information Center
		But I took astronomy as an elective, and I absolutely fell in love with it.
		Stepping out on the roof overlooking Lake Ontario for my first astronomy lab class in Oswego, NY, seeing first the sunset over the lake, and then the crescent moon and several planets lined up across the sky, I felt I had never seen such a beautiful sight.
		I studied astronomy in college for 11 years, at Oswego State, Arizona State University, and Wesleyan University.
	heritage.stsci.edu /commonpages/infoindex/ourproject/l_frattare.html (421 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium (2001)
		The committee recommends the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a joint mission between the United States and the European Space Agency, to pioneer the study of low-frequency (periods of 10 to 10,000 seconds) gravitational waves from binary star systems in our galaxy and the coalescence of supermassive fl holes.
		LISA will complement the ground-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), which is designed to study the much higher frequency gravitational waves from the coalescence of neutron stars and stellar mass fl holes, as well as the core collapse of supernovae.
		The detection of low-frequency gravitational waves requires a space system with detectors several million miles apart whose separation is monitored with exquisite accuracy, to a precision a thousand times smaller than the size of an atom.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309070317/html/122.html (531 words)

	LISA and rule-based programming in Common Lisp - Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log
		LISA (Lisp-based Intelligent Software Agents), by David Young, is one of those little gems buried into Sourceforge.
		Work on LISA started around 2000, so it is a relatively recent system and leverages the experience of its predecessors.
		LISA is a mature system for niche applications, and list traffic tends to be -- very -- low.
	www.paoloamoroso.it /log/050827.html (692 words)

	PAM Bulletin: Vol. 30, No. 2
		The greatly anticipated LISA IV conference was held in Prague in July.
		Many in the astronomy community were stunned to learn that effective October 1, 2002, NASA terminated all support for the Astronomical Data Center at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
		LISA IV was hosted by the Astronomical Institute of Charles University and the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
	www.sla.org /division/dpam/pam-bulletin/vol30/no2/astronomy.html (891 words)

	LISA III Conference
		LISA II, an IAU Technical Workshop, was held at the European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany, in 1995.
		Library and Information Services in Astronomy III will provide an opportunity to examine the current state of the art of information maintenance, delivery, and preservation, as well as to learn from invited experts the directions in which our profession is moving.
		LISA III will bring together librarians from astronomical institutes and observatories worldwide as well as astronomers, publishers, and computer specialists active in the field of astronomy.
	www.sla.org /division/dpam/pam-bulletin/vol25/no1/lisa3.htm (1057 words)

	Astronomy-related Libraries
		The purpose of the NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library is to collect fully processed astronomical images in FITS format format and make them available to the research community and the general public via the World Wide Web.
		The Union List of Astronomy Serials (ULAS), 2nd edition, is composed of bibliographic information for (primarily) non-commercial publications of observatories and institutions concerned with research in astronomy.
		The astronomy collection housed in Yerkes Library is designed to support the research and educational activities of Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, with emphasis on practical and observational astronomy, charts and catalogs of astronomical objects, and the design and construction of astronomical instruments and lenses.
	www.cv.nrao.edu /fits/www/yp_library.html (619 words)

	I need some ideas for Astronomy... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lisa in Ky Date: Wednesday, 13 August 2003, at 7:52 a.m.
		I would like to be able to just use library books and our telescope, but I need some kind of outline to know what she needs to learn.
		Although we've not yet used their Astronomy course, the Teaching Company's lecture series that we've used have, so far, been good.
	homeschoolchristian.com /cgi-bin/parentsofteens3.cgi?noframes;read=4566 (252 words)

	LISA V Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		We are pleased to announce that the LISA (Library and Information Services in Astronomy) V conference will be hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 18-21, 2006.
		Thus, 18 years after LISA I, the conference will return to the U.S. Cambridge is well-located on the East coast, minutes away from Boston, and can be easily reached from many places in the world.
		The Friends of LISA (FOL) Committee is once again raising money to assist astronomy librarians in resource-poor countries to attend this conference by collecting sufficient funds to cover their housing, a small per diem, and, in some cases, travel expenses.
	cfa-www.harvard.edu /library/lisa/general.html (178 words)

	A Brief History of High-Energy Astronomy
		LISA will consist of three spacecraft flying 5 million kilometers (km) apart in the shape of an equilateral triangle.
		The main objective of the LISA mission is to observe gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary systems, including gravitational waves generated in the vicinity of the very massive fl holes found in the centers of many galaxies.
		The three LISA spacecraft flying in formation will act as a giant Michelson interferometer, measuring the distortion of space caused by passing gravitational waves.
	heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/heasarc/headates/heahistory.html (2855 words)

	Lisa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mona Lisa, the oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
		LISA (musician), Elizabeth Sakura Narita, a former member of the Japanese hip-hop group m-flo
		Lisa Simpson, a cartoon character in the television series, The Simpsons
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lisa (158 words)

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