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The gravitational waves (GW) emitted during the coalescence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the mass range 10^4-10^7 M_sun will be detectable out to high redshifts with LISA. We calculate the size and orientation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Kocsis , Z. Frei , Z. Haiman , K. Menou

Stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) near supermassive black holes (SMBH) in galactic nuclei undergo eccentricity oscillations due to gravitational perturbations from the SMBH. Previous works have shown that this channel can contribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-25 Bao-Minh Hoang , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Will Farr , Jess McIver

Stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) in galactic nuclei are gravitationally perturbed by the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) of the host galaxy, potentially inducing strong eccentricity oscillations through the eccentric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-21 Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Smadar Naoz , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Bao-Minh Hoang , Evgeni Grishin

We conduct an analysis of the measurement abilities of distinctive LISA detector designs, examining the influence of LISA's low-frequency performance on the detection and characterization of massive black hole binaries. We are particularly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-07 Michael L. Katz , Shane L. Larson

Quasars have recently been used as an absolute distance indicator, extending the Hubble diagram to high redshift to reveal a deviation from the expansion history predicted for the standard, $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Here we show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Lorenzo Speri , Nicola Tamanini , Robert R. Caldwell , Jonathan R. Gair , Benjamin Wang

In the frequency band of Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), extensive research has been conducted on the impact of foreground confusion noise generated by galactic binaries within the Milky Way galaxy. Additionally, the recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Fan Huang , Yan-Chen Bi , Zhoujian Cao , Qing-Guo Huang

Binary black holes (BBH) are expected to form and merge in active galactic nuclei (AGN), deep in the potential well of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), from populations that exist in a nuclear star cluster (NSC). Here we investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Jake Postiglione , K. E. Saavik Ford , Henry Best , Barry McKernan , Matthew O'Dowd

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 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), due for launch in the mid 2030s, is expected to observe gravitational waves (GW)s from merging massive black hole binaries (MBHB)s. These signals can last from days to months, depending on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Connor R. Weaving , Laura K. Nuttall , Ian W. Harry , Shichao Wu , Alexander Nitz

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves from the population of merging massive black holes binaries (MBHBs) throughout the Universe. The LISA data stream will feature many superposed signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Senwen Deng , Stanislav Babak , Sylvain Marsat

The observability of gravitational waves from supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes by the forecoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and the physics we can learn from the observations, will depend on two basic factors:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with astoundingly high signal-to-noise ratio, leaving parameter estimation with these signals susceptible to seemingly small waveform errors. Of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Sophia Yi , Francesco Iacovelli , Emanuele Berti , Rohit S. Chandramouli , Sylvain Marsat , Digvijay Wadekar , Nicolás Yunes

Massive black hole binaries are key targets for the space based gravitational wave interferometer LISA. Several studies have investigated how LISA observations could be used to constrain the parameters of these systems. Until recently, most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 Edward K. Porter , Neil J. Cornish

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will produce a data stream containing a vast number of overlapping sources: from strong signals generated by the coalescence of massive black hole binary systems to much weaker radiation form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 E. D. L. Wickham , A. Stroeer , A. Vecchio

The upcoming LISA mission will be able to detect gravitational waves from galactic and extragalactic compact binaries. Here, we report on LISA's capability to probe dark matter around these binaries if the latter constitute black holes. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sohan Ghodla

The recent Advanced LIGO detections of coalescing black hole binaries (BHBs) imply a large population of such systems emitting at milli-Hz frequencies, accessible to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We show that these systems…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Antoine Klein

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect a variety of gravitational-wave events, including mergers of massive black hole binaries, stellar-mass black hole inspirals, and extreme mass-ratio inspirals. LISA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Aasim Jan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Lange

We use the ASTRID cosmological simulation to forecast massive black hole (MBH) mergers detectable by Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) down to $z=0$. ASTRID directly models MBH dynamical friction, allowing a realistic tracking of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Bonny Y. Wang , Yihao Zhou , William Chen , Nianyi Chen , Tiziana Di Matteo , Rupert Croft , Simeon Bird , Yueying Ni

Massive stellar origin black hole binaries (SBHBs), originating from stars above the pair-instability mass gap, are primary candidates for multiband gravitational wave (GW) observations. Here we study the possibility to use them as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Niccolò Muttoni , Alberto Mangiagli , Alberto Sesana , Danny Laghi , Walter Del Pozzo , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Mattia Rosati