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One of the open problems in developing binary black hole (BBH) waveforms for gravitational wave astronomy is to model the intermediate mass ratio regime and connect it to the extreme mass ratio regime. A natural approach is to employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Alessandro Nagar , James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Angelica Albertini

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 Einstein Telescope (ET), a future third-generation gravitational wave detector will have detection sensitivity for gravitational wave signals down to 1 Hz. This improved low-frequency sensitivity of the ET will allow the observation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-19 Neha Singh , Tomasz Bulik

A possible detection of sub-solar mass ultra-compact objects would lead to new perspectives on the existence of black holes that are not of astrophysical origin and/or pertain to formation scenarios of exotic ultra-compact objects. Both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Rafael C. Nunes

The width of a resonance in a nearly integrable system, i.e. in a non-integrable system where chaotic motion is still not prominent, can tell us how a perturbation parameter is driving the system away from integrability. Although the tool…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Ondřej Zelenka , Ondřej Kopáček , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

The coalescence of a stellar-mass compact object into an intermediate-mass black hole (intermediate mass-ratio coalescence; IMRAC) is an important astrophysical source for ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers in the so-called…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-08 R. J. E. Smith , I. Mandel , A. Vecchio

Wet extreme mass-ratio inspirals (wet EMRIs), which arise from stellar-mass black holes inspiral into supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the gas-rich environments of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), are primary sources of gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhenwei Lyu , Zhen Pan , Junjie Mao , Ning Jiang , Huan Yang

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals are one of the most exciting and promising target sources for space-based interferometers (such as LISA, TianQin). The observation of their emitted gravitational waves will offer stringent tests on general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-22 Priti Gupta , Lorenzo Speri , Béatrice Bonga , Alvin J. K. Chua , Takahiro Tanaka

We investigate the capability of Einstein Telescope to constrain the cosmological parameters of the non-flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. Two types of mock datasets are considered depending on whether or not a short Gamma-Ray Burst is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-23 Matteo Califano , Ivan de Martino , Daniele Vernieri , Salvatore Capozziello

Intermediate/Extreme mass ratio inspiral (I/EMRI) system provides a good tool to test the nature of gravity in strong field. Based on the method of osculating orbits, we compute the orbital evolutions of I/EMRIs on quasi-elliptic orbits in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Tong Jiang , Ning Dai , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Chao Zhang

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) will provide long duration inspiral signals with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, ideal for testing general relativity (GR) in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Manuel Piarulli , Sylvain Marsat , Elise M. Sänger , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Nicola Tamanini

Orbital eccentricity is a crucial physical effect to unveil the origin of compact-object binaries detected by ground- and spaced-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Here, we perform for the first time a Bayesian inference study of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-28 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Alessandra Buonanno , Jonathan Gair

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

Given the multi-frequency nature of relativistic orbits, transient orbital resonances are expected to be ubiquitous during an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI). At a resonance, the orbital dynamics is modified in a nontrivial way,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Edoardo Levati , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño

The coalescence of stellar-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) might explain some of the gravitation waves (GWs) events detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. On the other hand, observational hints for supermassive PBHs (SMPBHs) have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-21 Hai-Long Huang , Tian-Yi Song , Yun-Song Piao

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are important sources for space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) and TianQin. Previous EMRI rate studies have focused on the "loss cone" scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-16 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

The extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are emerging as precision laboratories for testing the gravity beyond general relativity. In this work, we investigate the Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB) effect induced by the Kalb-Ramond (KR) field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Zhong-Wu Xia , Huajie Gong , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) offer a promising avenue to test extra-dimensional physics through gravitational wave (GW) observations. In this work, we study equatorial eccentric EMRIs around a spherically symmetric braneworld black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Shailesh Kumar , Tieguang Zi , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected via gravitational waves are addressing key open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. Our scientific conclusions rely on extracting accurate source parameters, for which we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Parthapratim Mahapatra , Jonathan E. Thompson , Edward Fauchon-Jones , Mark Hannam

Hierarchical mergers in a dense environment are one of the primary formation channels of intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) binary system. We expect that the resulting massive binary system will exhibit mass asymmetry. The emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-05 Kritti Sharma , Koustav Chandra , Archana Pai