11th International LISA Symposium
11th International LISA Symposium
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第十一届国际LISA研讨会
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2015
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G. Mueller
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G. Ciani;J. Conklin;G. Mueller
编者按：第十一届国际丽莎研讨会于2016年9月5日至9日在苏黎世大学(伊尔谢尔校区)举行。两年前，在佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔举行的X Lisa研讨会上，决定在苏黎世举行以下会议。当时我们无法想象，在接下来的几年里，引力波领域的格局会发生戏剧性的变化，而且是最好的变化。从2015年12月3日丽莎探路者的完美飞行开始，随后在6月7日公布了第一批结果，显示丽莎探路者的表现远远好于预期，已经达到了丽莎要求的水平；这是一个美妙的结果，经过十多年的大努力准备任务。随后，在2016年2月11日，LIGO科学合作小组宣布首次对引力波进行地面探测。这些良好的发展使2016年成为引力波历史上特殊的一年，100年前，爱因斯坦在他的广义相对论中首次预测了引力波的存在。鉴于这些惊人的发展，社会对Lisa研讨会的兴趣增加也就不足为奇了，事实上，大约有250人参加了这次会议，从各个方面来看，会议都非常成功。形式包括全体会议，总共约68次会议，以及近100张海报。会谈的主要议题包括LISA探路者的第一个结果，LISA的进一步发展，以及迄今通过地面引力波探测器(LIGO和Virgo)以及脉冲星定时阵列所获得的结果的概述。几个讲座涵盖了与引力波有关的天体物理学和宇宙学的不同方面。其中一次演讲是关于卫星显微镜的初步结果，其目的是检验广义相对论中的等价原理。还组织了一次酶联免疫吸附试验和L3ST(美国宇航局的一个委员会)联合会议。A·吉梅内斯教授(欧空局科学主任)和保罗·赫兹博士(美国航天局天体物理司司长)也作了方案演讲。完整的计划可以在这一卷中找到，以及科学咨询委员会(SAC)、当地组织委员会(LOC)和参与者的名单。这卷会议记录包含约60篇稿件，包括演讲和海报。虽然这次会议的重点放在了Lisa探路者的第一个结果上，但这本卷中只有很少的投稿是针对它们的，因为会议上展示的大部分材料都是初步的，将在Lisa探路者任务结束后发表在同行评议的期刊上。我们感谢所有撰稿人为会议程序发送论文所做的努力。我们有一本很好的书，将对所有与会者有用，我们也非常感激我们能在苏黎世引力波物理学史上如此特殊且可能是独一无二的时期组织这次会议。苏黎世与爱因斯坦关系密切，爱因斯坦既与ETH有关系，他在那里学习，后来成为一名教授，也与大学有关系，他在伯尔尼专利局工作了几年后，在那里获得了博士学位，并获得了他的第一个教授学术职位。此外，他的广义相对论的很大一部分是在他在苏黎世期间发展起来的，他从ETH的同事马塞尔·格罗斯曼那里得到了重要的数学帮助。我们感谢SAC的成员和会议的召集人，他们帮助制定了科学计划。特别要感谢莫妮卡·科尔皮：她在定义这个项目和邀请许多演讲者方面做出了实质性的贡献。我们感谢我们在LOC的所有合作者，他们以某种方式帮助组织了这次会议，并为会议的成功做出了至关重要的贡献。特别是我们的秘书Carmelina Genovese和Rafael Küng，他们的努力值得高度赞扬。我们也感谢苏黎世大学和苏黎世理工学院保利中心的财政支持，苏黎世大学校长迈克尔·亨加特纳教授主持了欢迎辞。我们这个领域的前景是光明的。欧空局已经开始准备L3飞行任务，LISA飞行任务提案由LISA财团于2017年1月中旬提交，目前正在审查中。LIGO和处女座再次收集数据，肯定会检测到新的事件。经过多年的筹划和准备，引力波天文学真正开始了。多梅尼科·贾尔迪尼和菲利普·杰泽
Editorial: XI International LISA Symposium The XI International LISA Symposium took place at the University of Zürich (Irchel Campus) from 5 to 9 September 2016. Two years before, at the X LISA Symposium in Gainesville in Florida, it was decided to hold the following one in Zürich. At that time we could not imagine that in the following years the landscape in the field of gravitational waves would change in a dramatic way, and for the best. It started with the perfect flight of LISA Pathfinder on 3 December 2015, followed by the announcement of the first results on 7 June, showing that the performance of LISA Pathfinder was much better than expected and already at the level of the LISA requirements; a wonderful result, achieved after more than a decade of big efforts in preparing the mission. Then, on 11 February 2016 the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced the first ground based detection of gravitational waves. These nice developments made 2016 a special year in the history of gravitational waves, 100 years after the first work of Einstein predicting the existence of gravitational waves within his theory of General Relativity. Given these spectacular developments it came not as a surprise that the interest in the community for the LISA Symposium increased and indeed about 250 participants attended the meeting, which was in all aspects very successful. The format consisted of plenary talks, in total some 68 talks, and almost 100 posters. The main topics of the talks covered the first results from LISA Pathfinder, the further development of LISA and an overview of the results obtained so far by the ground based gravitational wave detectors (LIGO and VIRGO) as well as Pulsar Timing Arrays. Several talks covered different aspects of astrophysics and cosmology related to gravitational waves. One talk was devoted on the preliminary results of the satellite Microscope, whose aim is to test the equivalence principle in general relativity. A joint eLISA and L3ST (a NASA committee) consortium meeting was also organized. There were also programmatic talks given by Prof. A. Gimenez (Science Director of ESA) and by Dr. Paul Hertz (Astrophysics Division Director of NASA). The full program can be found in this volume as well as the lists of the Science Advisory Committee (SAC), the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) and the participants. This volume of proceedings contains about 60 contributions, including talks and posters. Although the focus of this meeting was put on the first results of LISA Pathfinder, only few of the contributions in this volume are devoted to them, due to the fact that most of the material presented in the meeting was preliminary and will be published in peer reviewed journals after the end of the LISA Pathfinder mission. We thank all the contributors for their effort in sending a paper for the proceedings. We have a nice volume that will be of use for all participants and we are also very grateful that we could organize the meeting at such a special and probably unique period in the history of gravitational wave physics in Zürich. Zürich is closely related to Einstein, who had relations with both the ETH, where he made his studies and later was a professor, and with the University, where he obtained his PhD and got his first academic position as a professor after some years at the Patent Office in Bern. Moreover, substantial parts of his theory of General Relativity were developed during his stay in Zürich, and he received important mathematical help from Marcel Grossmann, a colleague at ETH. We thank the members of the SAC and the conveners of the sessions who helped shaping the scientific program. A particular thank goes to Monica Colpi: she helped in a substantial way to define the program and in inviting many of the speakers. We thank all our collaborators in the LOC, who in a way or another helped in organizing the meeting and contributed in a crucial way to its success. Particularly our secretary Carmelina Genovese and Rafael Küng deserve a big credit for their effort. We acknowledge also the financial support of the University of Zürich, whose president Prof. Michael Hengartner held the welcome speech, and of the Pauli Center of ETH Zürich. The future of our field is bright. ESA has already started the preparation for the L3 mission, the LISA mission proposal was submitted by the LISA Consortium in mid of January 2017 and is presently under review. LIGO and VIRGO are again collecting data and new events will surely be detected. After many years of planning and preparation efforts, gravitational wave astronomy has really started. Domenico Giardini and Philippe Jetzer