Outreach
Press release (17/05/11): Científicos españoles participan en el rediseño de LISA, el primer observatorio espacial de ondas gravitatorias
Alberto Lobo selected as one of the scientists contributing to the redesign of the gravitational wave observatory, LISA. He will represent the Spanish contribution to this team of experts that will work in collaboration with ESA engineers in order to propose a new design for a future European gravitational wave observatory mission.
Carlos F. Sopuerta in the Jornadas de Divulgació de la Relativitat (01/03/11)
The Agrupació Astronòmica de Terrassa and the web Relatividad Espacial organise the Jornadas de Divulgació de la Relativitat to commemorate the visit of Albert Einstein to Barcelona the February 26th, 1923. This year Carlos F. Sopuerta gave a talk on gravitational waves in the Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Terrassa.
The LISA movie, courtesy of the Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover
This movie shows the design and operating mode of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). You will see the launch of three spacecraft with a Delta rocket, separation, orbit deployment, initiation of the laser beams as well as some detailed views inside the LISA satellites. Please click on the preview image to start the playback.
Picometre precision demonstrated by LISA Pathfinder tests (21/10/10)
A European team working on the LISA Pathfinder mission has completed an extensive series of ground tests on the spacecraft's optical payload. The tests successfully achieved - for the first time on a spacecraft instrument - the incredible precision that will be required to confirm the existence of gravitational waves. The Spanish contribution is the Data Management Unit, developed at the ICE.
Outreach publication in the Revista Española de Física: La Astronomía de Ondas Gravitatorias en el siglo XXI (05/10)
Alberto Lobo and Carlos F Sopuerta have published an outreach article with an overview on the field of Gravitational Wave Astronomy.
Interview to Alberto Lobo in the technology journal Global Talent (08/04/10)
The science and technology journal Global Talent interviews Alberto Lobo because of the recent release of the Data Management Unit (DMU) to the European Space Agency. The DMU is an central element of the LISA Pathfinder mission. It will process some data on board and will control other subsystem in the spacecraft
Press release (20/02/2010): El Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio entrega a la Agencia Espacial Europea su principal contribución al satélite LISA PathFinder
The Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (CSIC-IEEC) has delivered to the European Space Agency (ESA) the Data Management Unit (DMU), which controls the scientific experiment on board the LISA Pathfinder mission. LISA Pathfinder will test the key technologies to build the first gravitational wave observatory in space, LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna).
Article in El Campus: LISA, una nova forma d'escoltar l'Univers (12/09)
El Campus is a journal of the Universitat Autònoma de Catalunya. In this article they interview Alberto Lobo, Carlos F. Sopuerta and Ivan Lloro about LISA.
Our group in the journal Teraflop (12/08)
Teraflop is an outreach journal from the Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya (CESCA). Carlos F. Sopuerta and Priscilla Cañizares are using the supercomputing resources at CESCA to study how supermassive black holes capture stellar objects.