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The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna: mission studies and science case

Parameswaran Ajith; Pau Amaro Seoane; Manuel Arca Sedda; Riccardo Arcodia; Francesca Badaracco; Biswajit Banerjee; Enis Belgacem; Giovanni Benetti; Stefano Benetti; Alexey Bobrick; Alessandro Bonforte; Elisa Bortolas; Valentina Braito; Marica Branchesi; Adam Burrows; Enrico Cappellaro; Roberto Della Ceca; Chandrachur Chakraborty; Shreevathsa Chalathadka Subrahmanya; Michael W. Coughlin; Stefano Covino; Andrea Derdzinski; Aayushi Doshi; Maurizio Falanga; Stefano Foffa; Alessia Franchini; Alessandro Frigeri; Yoshifumi Futaana; Oliver Gerberding; Kiranjyot Gill; Matteo Di Giovanni; Ines Francesca Giudice; Margherita Giustini; Philipp Gläser; Jan Harms; Joris van Heijningen; Francesco Iacovelli; Bradley J. Kavanagh; Taichi Kawamura; Arun Kenath; Elisabeth-Adelheid Keppler; Chiaki Kobayashi; Goro Komatsu; Valeriya Korol; N.V. Krishnendu; Prayush Kumar; Francesco Longo; Michele Maggiore; Michele Mancarella; Andrea Maselli; Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti; Francesco Mazzarini; Andrea Melandri; Daniele Melini; Sabrina Menina; Giovanni Miniutti; Deeshani Mitra; Javier Morán-Fraile; Suvodip Mukherjee; Niccolò Muttoni; Marco Olivieri; Francesca Onori; Maria Alessandra Papa; Ferdinando Patat; Andrea Perali; Tsvi Piran; Silvia Piranomonte; Alberto Roper Pol; Masroor C. Pookkillath; R. Prasad; Vaishak Prasad; Alessandra De Rosa; Sourav Roy Chowdhury; Roberto Serafinelli; Alberto Sesana; Paola Severgnini; Angela Stallone; Jacopo Tissino; Hrvoje Tkalčić; Lina Tomasella; Martina Toscani; David Vartanyan; Cristian Vignali; Lucia Zaccarelli; Morgane Zeoli; Luciano Zuccarello

Journal
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2025 (01) pp. 108
Publisher
IOP Publishing
DOI
10.1088/1475-7516/2025/01/108
IGC authors
Vaishak Prasad
About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.