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Are stellar-mass black-hole binaries too quiet for LISA?

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2026-01-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The progenitors of the high-mass black-hole mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo are potential LISA sources and promising candidates for multiband GW observations. In this letter, we consider the minimum signal-to-noise ratio these sources must have to be detected by LISA. Our revised threshold of ρthr15\rho_{\rm thr}\sim 15 is higher than previous estimates, which significantly reduces the expected number of events. We also point out the importance of the detector performance at high-frequencies and the duration of the LISA mission, which both influence the event rate substantially.

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@article{arxiv.1905.11998,
  title  = {Are stellar-mass black-hole binaries too quiet for LISA?},
  author = {Christopher J. Moore and Davide Gerosa and Antoine Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.11998},
  year   = {2026}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures. Published in MNRAS letters. DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slz104