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Massive young clusters (YCs) are expected to host intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) born via runaway collapse. These IMBHs are likely in binaries and can undergo mergers with other compact objects, such as stellar mass black holes (BHs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 M. Mapelli , C. Huwyler , L. Mayer , Ph. Jetzer , A. Vecchio

We study gravitational wave (GW) emission in the strong-field regime by a hierarchical triple system composed of a binary system placed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The LIGO-Virgo collaboration recently reported…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Vitor Cardoso , Francisco Duque , Gaurav Khanna

We explore orbital implications of the Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) binary in UGC4211 for the energy spectrum of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), measured with pulsar timing. The SMBH binary in UGC4211 has a projected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-10 Tom Broadhurst , Chao Chen , Tao Liu , Kai-Feng Zheng

Coalescence of super massive black holes (SMBH's) in galaxy mergers is potentially the dominant contributor to the low frequency gravitational wave background (GWB). IIt was proposed by Merritt and Ekers (2002) that X-shaped radio galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-27 David H. Roberts , Lakshmi Saripalli , Ravi Subrahmanyan

We present a refined estimation of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) based on observed dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) together with AGN X-ray luminosity functions, in light of recent Pulsar Timing Array detections of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Katsunori Kusakabe , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Daisuke Toyouchi

Gravitational waves from binary black hole pairs have emerged as an important observational tool in current times. The energy of the BH - BH binary pair is radiated in the form of gravitational waves and to compensate for that energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-11 Shibaji Banerjee , Ashadul Halder , Sanjay K. Ghosh , Sibaji Raha , Debasish Majumdar

The component black holes (BHs) observed in gravitational-wave (GW) binary black hole (BBH) events tend to be more massive and slower spinning than those observed in black hole X-ray binaries (BH-XRBs). Without modeling their evolutionary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 Maya Fishbach , Vicky Kalogera

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) offer insights into the universe expansion. The spectral siren method, used without electromagnetic counterparts (EMC), infers cosmic expansion (Hubble constant) by relating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Grégoire Pierra

Globular clusters (GCs) may harbour intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) at their centres. In these dynamically active environments stellar-mass black holes (SBHs) sink to the center soon after formation, due to dynamical friction and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Giacomo Fragione , Omer Bromberg

The observed binary black hole (BBH) mergers indicate a large Galactic progenitor population continuously evolving from large orbital separations and low gravitational wave (GW) frequencies to the final merger phase. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-19 Xiao Fang , Todd A. Thompson , Christopher M. Hirata

The first discovery of the gravitational wave (GW) event, GW150914, suggests a higher merger rate of black-hole (BH) binaries. If this is true, a number of BH binaries will be observed via the second-generation GW detectors, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

We estimate the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background signal from the field population of coalescing binary stellar mass black holes (BHs) throughout the Universe. This study is motivated by recent observations of BH-Wolf-Rayet star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-15 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Howell , Tania Regimbau , David Blair , Zong-Hong Zhu

Motivated by observational searches for sub-parsec supermassive black hole binaries (SBHBs) we develop a modular analytic model to determine the likelihood for detection of SBHBs by ongoing spectroscopic surveys. The model combines the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Bryan J. Pflueger , Khai Nguyen , Tamara Bogdanovic , Michael Eracleous , Jessie C. Runnoe , Steinn Sigurdsson , Todd Boroson

Massive black hole binaries are predicted to form during the hierarchical assembly of cosmic structures and will represent the loudest sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) detectable by present and forthcoming GW experiments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-01 Elisa Bortolas , Alessia Franchini , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) in the 10 million to 10 billion $M_\odot$ range form in galaxy mergers, and live in galactic nuclei with large and poorly constrained concentrations of gas and stars. There are currently no…

We study a novel electromagnetic signature of supermassive black hole binaries whose inspiral starts being dominated by gravitational wave (GW) emission. Recent simulations suggest that the binary's member BHs can continue to accrete gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-01 Girish Kulkarni , Abraham Loeb

According to General Relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) should travel at the speed of light $c$. However, some theories beyond GR predict deviations of the velocity of GWs $c_{\rm gw}$ from $c$, and some of those expect vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Tian-Yong Cao , Shu-Xu Yi

We outline the eccentricity evolution of sub-parsec massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) forming in galaxy mergers. In both stellar and gaseous environments, MBHBs are expected to grow large orbital eccentricities before they enter the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Constanze Roedig , Alberto Sesana

We present a comprehensive framework for predicting the detection prospects of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) by future gravitational wave (GW) observatories, examining both space-borne detectors (LISA, Taiji, TianQin) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-09 Katsunori Kusakabe , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Daisuke Toyouchi , Keitaro Takahashi

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by primordial black holes (PBHs) in the dense cores of dwarf galaxies (DGs), considering both hierarchical binary black hole (BBH) mergers and close hyperbolic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Tadeo D. Gòmez-Aguilar , Encieh Erfani , N. M. Jimènez Cruz