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Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. binary systems comprised by a compact stellar-mass object orbiting a massive black hole, are expected to be among the primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming LISA mission. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

The extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI), defined as a stellar-mass compact object inspiraling into a supermassive black hole (SMBH), has been widely argued to be a low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) source. EMRIs providing accurate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Y. Y. Wang , F. Y. Wang , Y. C. Zou , Z. G. Dai

Gravitational waves provide a unique probe of the strong-field regime of gravity, offering access to physics beyond the classical black hole paradigm. We explore how space-based observations of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Pablo F. Muguruza , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a compact object orbits a massive black hole, are a key source of gravitational waves for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Due to their small mass ratio, ($\epsilon \sim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Philip Lynch , Vojtěch Witzany , Maarten van de Meent , Niels Warburton

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), namely binary systems composed of a massive black hole and a compact stellar-mass object, are anticipated to be among the gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-23 Chang Liu , Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini

The inspiral of stellar compact objects into massive black holes, usually known as extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), is one of the most important sources of gravitational-waves for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-28 Carlos F. Sopuerta , Nicolas Yunes

LISA should detect gravitational waves from tens to hundreds of systems containing black holes with mass in the range from 10 thousand to 10 million solar masses. Black holes in this mass range are not well constrained by current…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Jonathan R Gair , Alberto Sesana , Emanuele Berti , Marta Volonteri

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes constitute some of the most important sources for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally intractable, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan Gair , Linqing Wen

Supermassive black holes and their surrounding dense stellar environments nourish a variety of astrophysical phenomena. We focus on the distribution of stellar-mass black holes around the supermassive black hole and the consequent formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 Barak Rom , Itai Linial , Karamveer Kaur , Re'em Sari

Idealized models are used to illustrate the potential of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) as a probe of the largely unknown population of cosmologically-distant Massive Black Holes (MBHs) and as a tool to measure their masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kristen Menou

A number of scenarios have been proposed for the origin of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that are found in the centres of most galaxies. Many such scenarios predict a high-redshift population of massive black holes (MBHs), with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Joseph E. Plowman , Ronald W. Hellings , Sachiko Tsuruta

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

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for space-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). EMRIs consist of a compact stellar object orbiting around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-05 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA, will detect gravitational wave signals from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals, where a stellar mass compact object orbits a supermassive black hole and eventually plunges into it. Here we report on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Andrea Maselli , Nicola Franchini , Leonardo Gualtieri , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Susanna Barsanti , Paolo Pani

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable precision studies of Extreme and Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs/IMRIs), providing unique probes of astrophysical environments of galactic nuclei and strong-field gravity.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Lorenzo Speri , Francisco Duque , Susanna Barsanti , Alessandro Santini , Shubham Kejriwal , Ollie Burke , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) occur when stellar-mass compact objects begin a gravitational wave (GW) driven inspiral into massive black holes. EMRI waveforms can precisely map the surrounding spacetime, making them a key target for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-27 Ismail Qunbar , Nicholas C. Stone

Recently it was shown that the inclusion of higher signal harmonics in the inspiral signals of binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) leads to dramatic improvements in parameter estimation with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 K G Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra , Chris Van Den Broeck , B R Iyer , B S Sathyaprakash , Siddhartha Sinha

The forthcoming space-based gravitational-wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) should enable the detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs), in which a stellar-mass compact object gradually inspirals into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Michal Stratený , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Ondřej Zelenka

Space-based gravitational wave detectors like TianQin or LISA could observe extreme-mass-ratio-inspirals (EMRIs) at millihertz frequencies. The accurate identification of these EMRI signals from the data plays a crucial role in enabling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-05 Chang-Qing Ye , Hui-Min Fan , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

In this work, we investigate detection rates and parameter estimation of strongly-lensed extreme mass-ratio inspirals (LEMRIs) in the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Our results indicate that LEMRIs constitute a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Martina Toscani , Ollie Burke , Chang Liu , Nour Bou Zamel , Nicola Tamanini , Federico Pozzoli