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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

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 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

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 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

The future space-based gravitational-wave detector LISA will deliver rich and information-dense data by listening to the milliHertz Universe. The measured time series will contain the imprint of tens of thousands of detectable Galactic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Quentin Baghi

The novel data analysis challenges posed by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) arise from the overwhelmingly large number of astrophysical sources in the measurement band and the density with which they are found in the data.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be capable of detecting gravitational waves (GWs) in the milli-Hertz band. Among various sources, LISA will detect the coalescence of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). Accurate and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Abhishek Sharma , Anand S. Sengupta , Suvodip Mukherjee

We study the evolution and gravitational wave emission of white dwarf -- black hole accreting binaries with a semi-analytical model. These systems will evolve across the mHz gravitational wave frequency band and potentially be detected by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-15 Laura Sberna , Alexandre Toubiana , M. Coleman Miller

The inspiral, merger, and ringdown of Massive Black Hole Binaries (MBHBs) is one the main sources of Gravitational Waves (GWs) for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), an ESA-led mission in the implementation phase. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Iván Martín Vílchez , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Upcoming space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will be sensitive to extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs and IMRIs). These binaries are comprised of a supermassive…

Stellar-mass black-hole binaries are the most numerous gravitational-wave sources observed to date. Their properties make them suitable for observation both by ground- and space-based detectors. Starting from synthetic catalogues…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 R. Buscicchio , J. Torrado , C. Caprini , G. Nardini , N. Karnesis , M. Pieroni , A. Sesana

One of the major assumptions in the search for gravitational wave signatures from massive and supermassive black hole binaries with LISA, is that these systems will have circularized before entering the LISA bandwidth. Current astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-31 Edward K. Porter , Alberto Sesana

The LISA International Science Team Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST-WG1B) is sponsoring several rounds of mock data challenges, with the purpose of fostering development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, and of demonstrating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 K. A. Arnaud , S. Babak , J. G. Baker , M. J. Benacquista , N. J. Cornish , C. Cutler , S. L. Larson , B. S. Sathyaprakash , M. Vallisneri , A. Vecchio , J-Y. Vinet

The proposed space gravitational wave (GW) detector LISA has potential to detect stellar-mass black hole binaries (BBHs). The majority of the detected BBHs are expected to emit nearly monochromatic GWs, whose frequency evolution will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Naoki Seto

Context. Galactic binaries account for the loudest combined continuous gravitational wave signal in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) band, which spans a frequency range of 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. Aims. A superposition of low frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Kristen Lackeos , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish , James I. Thorpe

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

LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly $(0.03 - 0.1) {\rm mHz} \lesssim f \lesssim 0.1 {\rm Hz}$. This is expected to be an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Scott A. Hughes

Observations of binary inspirals with LISA will allow us to place bounds on alternative theories of gravity and to study the merger history of massive black holes (MBH). These possibilities rely on LISA's parameter estimation accuracy. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti , Alessandra Buonanno , Clifford M. Will

Multiband observations of coalescing stellar-mass black holes binaries could deliver valuable information on the formation of those sources and potential deviations from General Relativity. Some of these binaries might be first detected by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Alexandre Toubiana , Stanislav Babak , Sylvain Marsat , Sergei Ossokine