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The direct measurement of gravitational waves is a powerful tool for surveying the population of black holes across the universe. The first gravitational wave catalog from LIGO has detected black holes as heavy as $\sim50~M_\odot$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-09 Karan Jani , Deirdre Shoemaker , Curt Cutler

The space-based laser interferometers, LISA, Taiji and TianQin, are targeting to observe milliHz gravitational waves (GWs) in the 2030s. The joint observations from multiple space-based detectors yield significant advantages. In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Bin Hu , Chang Liu , Youjun Lu , Wei-Tou Ni , Wen-Hong Ruan , Naoki Seto , Gang Wang , Yue-Liang Wu

One of the sources of gravitational waves for the proposed space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), are the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan R. Gair , Christopher Tang , Marta Volonteri

Gravitational waves emitted during intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) into supermassive black holes could represent a very interesting source for LISA. Similarly, IMRIs of stellar-mass compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilya Mandel , Jonathan R. Gair

The coalescences of massive black hole binaries are one of the main targets of space-based gravitational wave observatories. Such gravitational wave sources are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic emissions. Low latency detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Wen-Hong Ruan , He Wang , Chang Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo

For space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection, the main noise source for massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) is attributed to approximately $10^7$ double white dwarf binaries in the foreground. For a GW source, the amplitude of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-27 Pan Guo , Hong-Bo Jin , Cong-Feng Qiao , Yue-Liang Wu

Recent numerical simulations reveal that the isothermal collapse of pristine gas in atomic cooling haloes may result in stellar binaries of supermassive stars with $M_* \gtrsim 10^4\ \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$. For the first time, we compute the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-24 Tilman Hartwig , Bhaskar Agarwal , John A. Regan

We determine the main properties of the Galactic binary black hole (BBH) population detectable by LISA and strategies to distinguish them from the much more numerous white dwarf binaries. We simulate BBH populations based on cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Alberto Sesana , Astrid Lamberts , Antoine Petiteau

We assess the possibility of detecting both eccentricity and gas effects (migration and accretion) in the gravitational wave (GW) signal from LISA massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at redshift $z=1$. Gas induces a phase correction to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-16 Mudit Garg , Andrea Derdzinski , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Jonathan Gair , Lucio Mayer

We discuss strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves from merging of massive black hole binaries in the context of the LISA mission. Detection of multiple events would provide invaluable information on competing theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-28 M. Sereno , A. Sesana , A. Bleuler , Ph. Jetzer , M. Volonteri , M. C. Begelman

We describe a hybrid evolutionary algorithm that can simultaneously search for multiple supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) inspirals in LISA data. The algorithm mixes evolutionary computation, Metropolis-Hastings methods and Nested…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-03 Jonathan R. Gair , Edward K. Porter

We investigate the detectability of gravitational waves that have been lensed by a spinless stellar-mass black hole, with respect to the advanced LIGO. By solving the full relativistic linear wave equations in the spacetime of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Chengjiang Yin , Jian-hua He

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational-wave (GW) observatory will be limited in its ability to detect mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) in the stellar-mass range. A future ground-based detector network, meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Kaze W. K. Wong , Ely D. Kovetz , Curt Cutler , Emanuele Berti

The launch of space based gravitational wave (GW) detectors (e.g. Laser Interferometry Space Antenna; LISA) and current and upcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) will extend the GW window to low frequencies, opening new investigations into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Samuel Banks , Katharine Lee , Nazanin Azimi , Kendall Scarborough , Nikolai Stefanov , Indra Periwal , Colin DeGraf , Tiziana Di Matteo

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses of hundreds to thousands of solar masses, will be unique sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Here we discuss their context as well as specific characteristics of IMBH-IMBH and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 M. Coleman Miller

Using the proposed space gravitational wave detector LISA, we will be able to measure the geometrical configurations of $\sim 10^4$ close white dwarf binaries in our Galaxy. The obtained data will be an entirely new resource to examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Naoki Seto

The nonlinear aspect of gravitational wave generation that produces power at harmonics of the orbital frequency, above the fundamental quadrupole frequency, is examined to see what information about the source is contained in these higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald W. Hellings , Thomas A. Moore

We present the first fully relativistic study of gravitational radiation from bodies in circular equatorial orbits around the massive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sgr A* and we assess the detectability of various kinds of objects by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Eric Gourgoulhon , Alexandre Le Tiec , Frederic H. Vincent , Niels Warburton

On the basis of GWTC-3, we discuss the detection prospect of extra-Galactic binary black holes (BBHs) by space gravitational-wave interferometers. In particular, targeting BBHs with component masses around 5-100$M_\odot$, we directly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Naoki Seto , Koutarou Kyutoku

We use the latest constraints on the population of stellar origin binary black holes (SOBBH) from LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observations, to estimate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) they generate in the frequency band of…