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The non-linear gravitational wave (GW) memory effect is a distinct prediction in general relativity. While the effect has been well studied for comparable mass binaries, it has mostly been overlooked for intermediate mass ratio inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Niels Warburton

We propose to use gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRI), composed of a boson star and a supermassive black hole in the center of galaxies, as a new method to search for boson stars. Gravitational waves from EMRI have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 Huai-Ke Guo , Kuver Sinha , Chen Sun

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR) in the highly dynamical, strong-field regime. So far, the majority of the tests of GR with GW signals have been carried out following parametrized,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Félix-Louis Julié , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno

First, for each case to be tested, a specific target inspiral signal is selected for parameter extraction. In a future real analysis, the target signal would be a real signal actually observed by a gravitational wave detector such as LISA.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 James S. Graber

The knowledge about the black hole mass function (BHMF) and its evolution would help to understand the origin of the BHs and how BH binaries formed at different stages of the history of the Universe. We demonstrate the ability of future…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-11 Xuheng Ding , Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

Detection of gravitational waves from compact binaries involving at least one intermediate mass black hole, and component mass ratios in the range $0.1$-$10^{-4}$, are among the primary sources for future space detectors with target strain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 M Laxman , Ryuichi Fujita , Chandra Kant Mishra

We revisit the scenario of small-mass-ratio (q) black-hole binaries; performing new, more accurate, simulations of mass ratios 10:1 and 100:1 for initially nonspinning black holes. We propose fitting functions for the trajectories of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-13 Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower , Carlos O. Lousto , Manuela Campanelli

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), as a core target for future space-based gravitational wave detection, offer crucial observational grounds for testing strong-field gravitational theories and classifying black holes through their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Xiuqin He , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are long-duration gravitational-wave sources in which a compact object gradually spirals into a massive black hole. Their formation is governed by the interplay between stochastic angular-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chen Feng , Yong Tang

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

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), comprising a stellar-mass compact object (CO) orbiting a supermassive black hole (BH), are key targets for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Incorporating the spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Qiuxin Cui , Wen-Biao Han

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are anticipated to be primary gravitational wave sources for LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). They form in dense nuclear clusters when a compact object (CO) is captured by the central massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Davide Mancieri , Luca Broggi , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

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

Intermediate mass ratio inspiral (IMRI) binaries -- containing stellar-mass black holes coalescing into intermediate-mass black holes ($M>100M_{\odot}$) -- are a highly anticipated source of gravitational waves (GWs) for Advanced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Carl-Johan Haster , Rory Smith

Gravitational-wave signals from black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins are described by four parameters -- each black hole's mass and spin. It has been shown that the dominant spin effects can be modeled by a \emph{single} spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-11 Michael Pürrer , Mark Hannam , P. Ajith , Sascha Husa

The detection of gravitational waves from Extreme mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) by the future space-based gravitational-wave detectors demands the generation of accurate enough waveform templates. Since the spin of the smaller secondary body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-21 Viktor Skoupý , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We describe in detail full numerical and perturbative techniques to compute the gravitational radiation from intermediate-mass-ratio black-hole-binary inspirals and mergers. We perform a series of full numerical simulations of nonspinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower , Manuela Campanelli

The capture of compact stellar remnants by galactic black holes provides a unique laboratory for exploring the near horizon geometry of the Kerr spacetime, or possible departures from general relativity if the central cores prove not to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 N. J. Cornish

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

One of the sources of gravitational waves for the proposed space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), are the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan R. Gair , Christopher Tang , Marta Volonteri
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