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According to the ESA "As the orientation and direction of motion of the spacecraft triangle changes along the orbit, it will be possible to determine the direct
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According to the ESA "As the orientation and direction of motion of the spacecraft triangle changes along the orbit, it will be possible to determine the direction of incoming gravitational wave sources." - From https://sci.esa.int/web/lisa/-/lisa-technology-interferometry-explained https://sci.esa.int/web/lisa/-/lisa-technology-interferometr...
Here's a pretty great infographic on how they plan to collaborate with the Athena x-ray observatory to detect black hole mergers ahead of time - https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/05/How_can_LISA_and_Athena_work_together https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/05/How_can_LI...
It ends up being about 0.4 square degrees in the sky that they're able to narrow in on before the event. That narrowing takes roughly a month.