Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group Architecting Studies

Gravitational Wave Mission Concepts Study

FINAL REPORT RELEASED AUGUST 10, 2012. Please Download Here

NASA's Request for Information (RFI)

The RFI, "Concepts for the NASA Gravitational Wave Mission," was released in the NASA NSPIRES Web site on September 27, 2011, as solicitation number NNH11ZDA019L [PDF]. Responses were due by November 10, 2011. The full text of this NASA research opportunity is posted on the NASA NSPIRES web site.

JPL Team X for Gravitational Wave (GW) Study

Study Summaries

Title	Dates
Team X Study of the SGO-Mid and SGO-High Options [PDF]	March 5 – 8, 2012
Team X Study of the LAGRANGE Mission [PDF]	March 20 – 22, 2012
Team X Study of the OMEGA Mission [PDF]	March 26 – 28 / April 3 – 5, 2012

Final Study Reports

Title	Dates
Team X SGO-Mid and SGO-High Study Report [PDF]	September 6, 2012
Team X LAGRANGE Study Report [PDF]	September 6, 2012
Team X OMEGA Study Report [PDF]	September 6, 2012

Community Science Team (CST)

NASA has issued a call for Letters of Application for Membership in the Community Science Team for Gravitational-Wave Mission Concepts. The "Dear Colleague" letter can be found HERE. The deadline for responding was October 25th at 4:30pm EST.

CST Members

List

Name	Institution
Peter Bender	JILA / NIST
Joan Centrella	NASA / GSFC
Neil Cornish	Montana State U.
Jens Gundlach	U. Washington
Ronald Hellings	Montana State U.
Guido Mueller	U. Florida
Holger Mueller	U. C. Berkeley
Thomas Prince	CalTech
Rainer Weiss	MIT (Co-Chair)
Edward Wright	UCLA (Co-Chair)