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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna's (LISA's) observation of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBH) could provide a new tool for precision cosmography. Inclusion of sub-dominant signal harmonics in the inspiral signal allows for…

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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

We present our analysis of a set of populations of massive black hole (MBH) binaries generated in the recent semi-analytic model of galaxy evolution (SHARK). We focus on studying gravitational wave (GW) emission produced during MBH mergers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Małgorzata Curyło , Tomasz Bulik

We investigate a hierarchical structure formation scenario describing the evolution of a Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs) population. The seeds of the local SMBHs are assumed to be 'pregalactic' black holes, remnants of the first POPIII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 M. Volonteri , F. Haardt , P. Madau , A. Sesana

There may exist stellar-mass binary black holes (BBH) which merge while orbiting nearby a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In such a triple system, the SMBH will modulate the gravitational waveform of the BBH through orbital Doppler shift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Andrew Laeuger , Brian Seymour , Yanbei Chen , Hang Yu

We show that nearly half of all binary black hole (BBH) mergers dynamically assembled in globular clusters have measurable eccentricities ($e>0.01$) in the LISA band ($10^{-2}$ Hz), when General Relativistic corrections are properly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Johan Samsing , Daniel J. D'Orazio

We investigate the expected gravitational wave emission from coalescing supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. When galaxies merge, the SMBHs in the host galaxies sink to the center of the new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Motohiro Enoki , Kaiki T. Inoue , Masahiro Nagashima , Naoshi Sugiyama

We analyze triple systems composed of the super massive black hole (SMBH) near the center of M87 and a pair of black holes (BHs) with masses in the range $10-10^3$ $M_{\odot}$. We consider the post Newtonian precession as well as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-23 Razieh Emami , Abraham Loeb

We investigate the intrinsic and observational properties of $z\gtrsim 6$ galaxies hosting coalescing massive black holes (MBHs) that gives rise to gravitational waves (GWs) detectable with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We…

We present a semi analytic forecast for the detection of intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) binaries with the space based detectors LISA (millihertz band) and AMIGO (deci hertz band). A redshift dependent population model is built from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Marcelo M. Lapola , Oswaldo D. Miranda

Ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories have transformed our view of compact-object mergers, yet their reach still limits a comprehensive reconstruction of the processes that generate these systems. Only next-generation…

The inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive ($\sim 10^{4}$-$10^{7} M_{\odot}$) black hole produces an intricate gravitational-wave signal. Due to the extreme-mass ratios involved, these systems complete $\sim…

The space based interferometer LISA will be capable of detecting the gravitational waves emitted by stellar mass black holes or neutron stars slowly inspiralling into the supermassive black holes found in the centre of most galaxies. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-14 Christopher J. Moore , Alvin J. K. Chua , Jonathan R. Gair

One of the scientific objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to probe the expansion of the Universe using gravitational wave observations. Indeed, as gravitational waves from the coalescence of a massive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Alberto Mangiagli , Chiara Caprini , Sylvain Marsat , Lorenzo Speri , Robert R. Caldwell , Nicola Tamanini

We study the impact of gas accretion on the orbital evolution of black-hole binaries initially at large separation in the band of the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We focus on two sources: (i)~stellar-origin black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-15 Andrea Caputo , Laura Sberna , Alexandre Toubiana , Stanislav Babak , Enrico Barausse , Sylvain Marsat , Paolo Pani

We estimate the expected event rate of gravitational wave signals from mergers of supermassive black holes that could be resolved by a space-based interferometer, such as the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA), utilising the…

Reconstructing the properties of the astrophysical population of binary compact objects in the universe is a key science goal of gravitational wave detectors. This goal is hindered by the finite strain, frequency sensitivity and observing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-21 Jam Sadiq , Kallol Dey , Thomas Dent , Enrico Barausse

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with masses below ($2 \times 10^5 M_{\odot}$) are pivotal in understanding the origin and growth mechanisms of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. This study focuses on the search and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-03 V. Goradzhanov , I. Chilingarian , M. Demianenko , I. Katkov , K. Grishin , V. Toptun , E. Rubtsov , D. Gasymov , I. Kuzmin

We present an empirical approach for interpreting gravitational wave signals of binary black hole mergers under the assumption that the underlying black hole population is sourced by remnants of stellar evolution. Using the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Oliver D. Elbert , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational-wave (GW) observatory will be limited in its ability to detect mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) in the stellar-mass range. A future ground-based detector network, meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Kaze W. K. Wong , Ely D. Kovetz , Curt Cutler , Emanuele Berti