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On astronomical scales, gravity is the engine of the Universe. The launch of LISA Pathfinder this year to prepare the technology to detect gravitational waves will help us 'listen' to the whole Universe.

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Figure 1: LISA Pathfinder.

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  • 20 August 2015

    In the Commentary 'LISA and its pathfinder' (Nature Physics 11, 613-615; 2015), in Box 1 Italy and Spain were mistakenly omitted from the list of mission team members. This error has been corrected in the online versions 20 August 2015.

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  1. Karsten Danzmann is at Leibniz Universität Hannover and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Callinstr. 38, D-30167 Hannover, Germany. The complete list of authors and contributors is available at http://elisascience.org/authors and http://elisascience.org/contributors

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  1. Karsten Danzmann

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the LISA Pathfinder Team

  • Karsten Danzmann

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Correspondence to Karsten Danzmann.

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the LISA Pathfinder Team., the eLISA Consortium. LISA and its pathfinder. Nature Phys 11, 613–615 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3420

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