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Continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars could provide an invaluable resource to learn about their interior physics. A common search method involves matched filtering a modeled template against the noisy gravitational-wave data to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-26 Gregory Ashton , Reinhard Prix , David Ian Jones

We propose to use pulsar-black hole binaries as a probe of gravitational collider physics. Induced by the gravitation of the pulsar, the atomic transitions of the boson cloud around the black hole back-react on the orbital motion. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Qianhang Ding , Xi Tong , Yi Wang

The merger of a super-massive binary black hole (SBBH) is one of the most extreme events in the universe with a huge amount of energy released by gravitational radiation. Although the characteristic gravitational wave (GW) frequency around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Naoki Seto

The stochastic gravitational-wave background is imprinted on the times of arrival of radio pulses from millisecond pulsars. Traditional pulsar timing analyses fit a timing model to each pulsar and search the residuals of the fit for a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-13 William DeRocco , Jeff A. Dror

In the context of the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, galactic binary systems of white dwarfs and neutron stars will represent the dominant source of Gravitational Waves (GWs) within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Stéphane Mathis , Marie-Christine Angonin

Context. The early phase of the coalescence of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries from their host galaxies provides a guaranteed source of low-frequency (nHz-$\mu$Hz) gravitational wave (GW) radiation by pulsar timing observations.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-28 Jinzhong Liu , Yu Zhang , Hailong Zhang , Yutao Sun , Na Wang

Binary black-hole systems with spins aligned or anti-aligned to the orbital angular momentum provide the natural ground to start detailed studies of the influence of strong-field spin effects on gravitational wave observations of coalescing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-09 Christian Reisswig , Sascha Husa , Luciano Rezzolla , Ernst Nils Dorband , Denis Pollney , Jennifer Seiler

We discuss the possibility that galactic gravitational wave sources might give burst signals at a rate of several events per year, detectable by state-of-the-art detectors. We are stimulated by the results of the data collected by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Eugenio Coccia , Florian Dubath , Michele Maggiore

Supermassive black hole binary mergers generate a stochastic gravitational wave background detectable by pulsar timing arrays. While the amplitude of this background is subject to significant uncertainties, the frequency dependence is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jeff A. Dror , Benjamin V. Lehmann , Hiren H. Patel , Stefano Profumo

We describe several new techniques which accelerate Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational-wave emission from supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing arrays. These techniques mitigate the problematic increase of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-25 Stephen Taylor , Justin Ellis , Jonathan Gair

Pulsars, the cosmic lighthouses, are strongly self-gravitating objects with core densities significantly exceeding nuclear density. Since the discovery of the Hulse--Taylor pulsar 50 years ago, binary pulsar studies have delivered numerous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Huanchen Hu

We consider a potentially new class of gravitational wave sources consisting of a white dwarf coalescing into a massive black hole in the mass range ~10^4-10^5\msun. These sources are of particular interest because the gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sesana , A. Vecchio , M. Eracleous , S. Sigurdsson

The two interferometric LIGO gravitational-wave observatories provide the most sensitive data to date to study the gravitational-wave Universe. As part of a global network, they have just completed their third observing run in which they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-24 Gregory Ashton , Sarah Thiele , Yannick Lecoeuche , Jess McIver , Laura K Nuttall

In coming years, gravitational wave detectors should find black hole-neutron star binaries, potentially coincident with astronomical phenomena like short GRBs. These binaries are expected to precess. Gravitational wave science requires a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-19 A. Lundgren , R. O'Shaughnessy

The energy carried in the gravitational wave signal from an eccentric binary is spread across several harmonics of the orbital frequency. The inclusion of the harmonics in the analysis of the gravitational wave signal increases the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Benacquista

We demonstrate that the integrated gravitational wave signal of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the single-degenerate channel out to cosmological distances gives rise to a continuous background to spaceborne gravitational wave detectors,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 David Falta , Robert Fisher

The millisecond pulsars, old-recycled objects spinning with high frequency $\mathcal{O}$ (kHz) sustaining the deformation from their spherical shape, may emit gravitational waves (GW). These are one of the potential candidates contributing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-18 Deepali Agarwal , Jishnu Suresh , Vuk Mandic , Andrew Matas , Tania Regimbau

Binary Systems are the most studied sources of gravitational waves. The mechanisms of emission and the behavior of the orbital parameters are well known and can be written in analytic form in several cases. Besides, the strongest indication…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

Because of the electromagnetic radiation produced during the merger, compact binary coalescences with neutron stars may result in multi-messenger observations. In order to follow up on the gravitational-wave signal with electromagnetic…

We examine the nHz gravitational wave (GW) foreground of stars and black holes (BHs) orbiting SgrA* in the Galactic Center. A cusp of stars and BHs generates a continuous GW spectrum below 40 nHz; individual BHs within 1 mpc to SgrA* stick…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Bence Kocsis , Alak Ray , Simon Portegies Zwart