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Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) provide unique probes of near-horizon dissipation through the tidal heating. We present a full Bayesian analysis of tidal heating in equatorial eccentric EMRIs by performing injection-recovery studies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Zhong-Wu Xia , Sheng Long , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing , Wei-Liang Qian

We investigate the orbital dynamics and gravitational wave signatures of neutral Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) in the spacetime of a Kerr black hole immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field, described by the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Xiang-Qian Li , Hao-Peng Yan , Xiao-Jun Yue

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

We investigate the gravitational wave emission from extreme mass ratio inspirals, key targets for the upcoming space-based detector LISA, considering the scenario where the lighter black hole in the binary is endowed by a long-lived,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-20 Matteo Della Rocca , Georgios Antoniou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli

Extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral observations from future space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA will enable strong-field tests of general relativity with unprecedented precision, but at prohibitive computational cost if existing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Alvin J. K. Chua , Sonke Hee , Will J. Handley , Edward Higson , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael P. Hobson , Anthony N. Lasenby

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are important sources for space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Such a source normally consists of a stellar-mass black hole (BH) and a Kerr supermassive BH (SMBH), but recent astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Xian Chen , Zhongfu Zhang

We study gravitational waves from a stellar-mass binary orbiting a spinning supermassive black hole, a system referred to as a binary extreme mass ratio inspiral (b-EMRI). We use Dixon's formalism to describe the stellar-mass binary as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 João S. Santos , Vitor Cardoso , José Natário , Maarten van de Meent

Scattering events around the center of massive galaxies will occasionally toss a stellar-mass compact object into an orbit around the massive black hole at the center, beginning an extreme mass ratio inspiral. The early stages of such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Daniel J Oliver , Aaron D Johnson , Joel Berrier , Kostas Glampedakis , Daniel Kennefick

We investigate extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in which a stellar-mass compact object orbits a supermassive bosonic dark matter star, modeled as a boson star, using fully relativistic perturbative methods. Unlike inspirals around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Caio F. B. Macedo , Haroldo C. D. Lima , Raissa F. P. Mendes , Rodrigo Vicente , Vitor Cardoso

We present the first orbit-integrated self force effects for an IMRI or EMRI source, specifically the effects of its conservative piece on the orbit and on the waveform. We consider the quasi-circular motion of a particle in the spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-13 Lior M. Burko , Kristen A. Lackeos

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are key observational targets for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. Unresolvable EMRI signals contribute to the formation of a gravitational wave background (GWB). Characterizing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-02 Manuel Piarulli , Riccardo Buscicchio , Federico Pozzoli , Ollie Burke , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

The largest part of any gravitational-wave inspiral of a compact binary can be understood as a slow, adiabatic drift between the trajectories of a certain referential conservative system. In many contexts, the phase space of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-23 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Vojtěch Witzany

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are among the key targe sources for the space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The waveforms of the EMRIs are highly sensitive to the types of the central supermassive black hole (SBH) and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Kun Meng , Shao-Jun Zhang , Nan Yang

Gravitational-wave observations of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) offer the opportunity to probe the environments of active galactic nuclei (AGN) through the torques that accretion disks induce on the binary. Within a Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-15 Lorenzo Speri , Andrea Antonelli , Laura Sberna , Stanislav Babak , Enrico Barausse , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael L. Katz

Extreme mass ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass object merges with a supermassive black hole, are prime sources for space-based gravitational wave detectors because they will facilitate tests of strong gravity and probe the spacetime…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-22 Nicolas Yunes , M. Coleman Miller , Jonathan Thornburg

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass compact object spirals into a supermassive black hole, are prime candidates for detection with space-borne milliHertz gravitational wave detectors, similar to the Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-15 Jonathan R. Gair , Nicolas Yunes

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most interesting gravitational wave (GW) sources for space-borne GW detectors. However, successful GW data analysis remains challenging due to many issues, ranging from the difficulty of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Xue-Ting Zhang , Chris Messenger , Natalia Korsakova , Man Leong Chan , Yi-Ming Hu , Jing-dong Zhang

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most powerful probes of strong-field gravity and of the environments surrounding supermassive compact objects. Motivated by the expected presence of dark matter near galactic centers, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Mubasher Jamil , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We extend the work of Ryan on mapping the spacetime of the central object of an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) by using gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the system, which may be observed in future missions such as LISA. Whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-12 Sayak Datta , Sukanta Bose

The future space mission LISA will observe a wealth of gravitational-wave sources at millihertz frequencies. Of these, the extreme-mass-ratio inspirals of compact objects into massive black holes are the only sources that combine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-08 Alvin J. K. Chua , Michael L. Katz , Niels Warburton , Scott A. Hughes