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Gravitational waves (GWs) have provided a new lens through which to view the universe beyond traditional electromagnetic methods. The upcoming space-based gravitational wave mission, Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will give us…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Shaniya Jarrett , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Robert J. Scherrer

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open complementary observational windows on massive black-hole binaries (MBHBs), i.e., with masses in the range $\sim 10^6 - 10^{10}\,$ M$_{\odot}$. While…

The coalescence of massive black hole binaries (with masses $10^4 - 10^7 M_{\odot}$) leads to gravitational wave emission that is detectable out to high redshifts ($z \sim 20$) with the forthcoming LISA observatory. We combine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect ~ 100 galactic binary systems comprised of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). Identifying the nature of the constituents of these binaries as BHs or NSs, and distinguishing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Hannah Middleton , Panagiota Kolitsidou , Antoine Klein , Connor Adam , Rowan Chalmers , Alberto Vecchio

The evolving Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) will revolutionize our understanding of the formation and evolution of massive black holes along cosmic history by probing massive black hole binaries in the $10^3-10^7$ solar mass…

We study parameter estimation of supermassive black holes in the range $10^5-10^8\Ms$ by LISA using the inspiral full post-Newtonian gravitational waveforms, and we compare the results with those arising from the commonly used restricted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-27 Miquel Trias , Alicia M. Sintes

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect the inspiral and merger of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at z <~ 5 with signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of hundreds to thousands. Because of these high SNRs,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Curt Cutler , Michele Vallisneri

LISA will be able to detect gravitational waves from inspiralling massive black hole (MBH) binaries out to redshifts z > 10. If the binary masses and luminosity distances can be extracted from the LISA data stream, this information can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Baker , J. Centrella

We open the discussion into how the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of supermassive black-hole (SMBH) mergers (in the mass range ~10^6-10^8 Msun) may be complementary to pulsar timing-based gravitational wave…

The scientific aim of the space gravitational wave (GW) detector Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) that was scheduled to launch in the early 2030s is to detect the low-frequency GW signals in the Galaxy. Its main candidate GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Wen-Cong Chen

LISA will extend the search for gravitational waves (GWs) at $0.1\,{-}\,100$ mHz where loud signals from coalescing binary black holes of $ 10^4 \,{-}\,10^7\,\rm M_{\odot}$ are expected. Depending on their mass and luminosity distance, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Gaia Lops , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Monica Colpi , Silvia Bonoli , Alberto Sesana , Alberto Mangiagli

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect gravitational wave signals from astrophysical sources, including those from coalescing binary systems of compact objects such as black holes. Colliding galaxies have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Joey Shapiro Key , Neil J. Cornish

We present the steps to forecast the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to both a stochastic gravitational wave background and deterministic wave sources. We show how to use these expressions to estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Tristan L. Smith , Robert Caldwell

We calculate the angular resolution of the planned LISA detector, a space-based laser interferometer for measuring low-frequency gravitational waves from galactic and extragalactic sources. LISA is not a pointed instrument; it is an all-sky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Curt Cutler

Coalescing supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the primary source candidates for low frequency gravitational wave (GW) detections, which could bring us deep insights into galaxy evolutions over cosmic time and violent processes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Minghui Du , Qiong Deng , Yifan Bian , Ziren Luo , Peng Xu

We propose that stellar-mass binary black holes like GW150914 will become a tool to explore the local Universe within ~100Mpc in the era of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). High calibration accuracy and annual motion of LISA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Koutarou Kyutoku , Naoki Seto

The gravitational wave signals from coalescing Supermassive Black Hole Binaries are prime targets for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). With optimal data processing techniques, the LISA observatory should be able to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Neil J. Cornish , Edward K. Porter

The dynamical formation of binary black holes (BBHs) in globular clusters (GCs) may contribute significantly to the observed gravitational wave (GW) merger rate. Furthermore, LISA may detect many BBH sources from GCs at mHz frequencies,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Zeyuan Xuan , Kyle Kremer , Smadar Naoz

Soon after the observation of the first black hole binary (BHB) by advanced LIGO (aLIGO), GW150914, it was realised that such a massive system would have been observable in the milli-Hz (mHz) band few years prior to coalescence. Operating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Alberto Sesana

Future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as LISA will detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), which are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, thereby providing bright standard sirens for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Jia-Hao Zhong , Jin-Zhao Yang , Tao Yang , Xu-Heng Ding , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Bei You