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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…

Supermassive binaries detectable by the future space gravitational-wave interferometer LISA might allow to distinguish black holes from ultracompact horizonless objects, even when the latter are motivated by quantum-gravity considerations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-25 Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

We compute the expected low-frequency gravitational wave signal from coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries at the center of galaxies. We follow the merging history of halos and associated holes via cosmological Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sesana , F. Haardt , P. Madau , M. Volonteri

Space-born gravitational-wave interferometers such as {\it LISA} will detect the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the inspiral, plunge and ringdown phases of massive black hole binary mergers at cosmological distances. From the inspiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott A. Hughes , Kristen Menou

The inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive ($\sim 10^{4}$-$10^{7} M_{\odot}$) black hole produces an intricate gravitational-wave signal. Due to the extreme-mass ratios involved, these systems complete $\sim…

The gravitational wave signal from a compact object spiralling toward a massive black hole (MBH) is thought to be one of the most difficult sources to detect in the LISA data stream. Due to the large parameter space of possible signals and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-25 Stanislav Babak , Jonathan R. Gair , Edward K. Porter

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are expected to be detected by the future space-based gravitational-wave detector LISA with a large signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This prospect enhances the possibility of differentiating higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Chantal Pitte , Quentin Baghi , Sylvain Marsat , Marc Besançon , Antoine Petiteau

Current expectations on the signal to noise ratios and masses of supermassive black holes which the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can observe are based on using in matched filtering only the dominant harmonic of the inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Arun , Bala R. Iyer , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Siddhartha Sinha

An extreme-mass-ratio system composed of a white dwarf (WD) and a massive black hole can be observed by the low-frequency gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). When the mass of the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-06 Wen-Biao Han , Xi-Long Fan

For a successful detection of gravitational waves by LISA, it is essential to construct theoretical waveforms in a reliable manner. We discuss gravitational waves from an extreme mass ratio binary system which is expected to be a promising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-26 Yasushi Mino

Gravitational wave signals from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries could be used as standard sirens to measure cosmological parameters. The future space based gravitational wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Antoine Petiteau , Stanislav Babak , Alberto Sesana

We discuss the prospects of eLISA for detecting gravitational waves (GWs) from Galactic binary black holes (BBHs) similar to GW150914. For a comoving merger rate that is consistent with current observation, eLISA is likely to identify at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Naoki Seto

We investigate the precision with which the parameters describing the characteristics and location of nonspinning black hole binaries can be measured with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). By using complete waveforms including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-16 Sean T. McWilliams , James Ira Thorpe , John G. Baker , Bernard J. Kelly

The observation of massive black hole binary systems is one of the main science objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The instrument's design requirements have recently been revised: they set a requirement at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Geraint Pratten , Antoine Klein , Christopher J. Moore , Hannah Middleton , Nathan Steinle , Patricia Schmidt , Alberto Vecchio

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) take place when a stellar-mass black hole (BH) merges with a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The gravitational wave emission from such an event is expected to be detectable by the future Laser…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Smadar Naoz , Zoltan Haiman

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LISA, are expected to detect thousands of Galactic close white dwarf binaries emitting nearly monochromatic GWs. In this study, we demonstrate that LISA is reasonably likely to detect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

The Galaxy is suspected to contain hundreds of millions of binary white dwarf systems, a large fraction of which will have sufficiently small orbital period to emit gravitational radiation in band for space-based gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Tyson B. Littenberg

Massive black hole binary systems are among the most interesting sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA); gravitational radiation emitted during the last year of in-spiral could be detectable with a very large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Alberto Vecchio

It is accepted that quasars are powered by supermassive black holes (SMBH) with masses in the range 10^6 - 10^9 solar masses in their cores. Occasionally, compact stars can plunge into SMBH. In addition, there may be a number of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 T. Wickramasinghe , M. Benacquista

Captures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) by massive ($\sim 10^6 M_\odot$) black holes (MBHs) are potentially an important source for LISA, the proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. The orbits of the inspiraling COs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Leor Barack , Curt Cutler
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