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We examine a loop quantum gravity (LQG) inspired rotating black hole, treating it as a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) in an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) system, where an inspiralling object exhibits eccentric motion around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Tieguang Zi , Shailesh Kumar

We study a point scalar charge in circular orbit around a topological star, a regular, horizonless soliton emerging from dimensional compactification of Einstein-Maxwell theory in five dimensions, which could describe qualitative properties…

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Gravitational waves can probe the existence of planetary-mass primordial black holes. Considering a mass range of $[10^{-7}-10^{-2}]M_\odot$, inspiraling primordial black holes could emit either continuous gravitational waves,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-25 Andrew L. Miller , Sébastien Clesse , Federico De Lillo , Giacomo Bruno , Antoine Depasse , Andres Tanasijczuk

The coalescence of a stellar-mass compact object together with an intermediate-mass black hole, also known as intermediate-mass-ratio inspiral, is usually not expected to be a viable gravitational wave source for the current ground-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-03 Wen-Biao Han , Zhoujian Cao , Yi-Ming Hu

The Kerr geometry admits the Carter symmetry, which ensures that the geodesic equations are integrable. It is shown that gravitational waveforms associated with extreme-mass-ratio inspirals involving a non-integrable compact object display…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-09 Kyriakos Destounis , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Spin-induced quadrupole moments provide an important characterization of compact objects, such as black holes, neutron stars and black hole mimickers inspired by additional fields and/or modified theories of gravity. Black holes in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-29 Zhenwei Lyu , Michael LaHaye , Huan Yang , Béatrice Bonga

Supermassive black holes and their surrounding dense stellar environments nourish a variety of astrophysical phenomena. We focus on the distribution of stellar-mass black holes around the supermassive black hole and the consequent formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 Barak Rom , Itai Linial , Karamveer Kaur , Re'em Sari

The Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet (EdGB) theory is a modified theory of gravity which include a scalar field to couple with the higher order curvature terms. It has already been constrained with various observations include the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Jing Tan , Jian-dong Zhang , Hui-Min Fan , Jianwei Mei

Scattering events around the center of massive galaxies will occasionally toss a stellar-mass compact object into an orbit around the massive black hole at the center, beginning an extreme mass ratio inspiral. The early stages of such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Daniel J Oliver , Aaron D Johnson , Joel Berrier , Kostas Glampedakis , Daniel Kennefick

We present a new approach to solve the 2+1 Teukolsky equation for gravitational perturbations of a Kerr black hole. Our approach relies on a new horizon penetrating, hyperboloidal foliation of Kerr spacetime and spatial compactification. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Enno Harms , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Anil Zenginoglu

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals are among the key sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna space-based gravitational-wave detector. Achieving sufficient accuracy in the gravitational-wave template for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Christiana Pantelidou , Jake Mac Uilliam , Vojtěch Witzany

The detection of the gravitational waves emitted in the capture process of a compact object by a massive black hole is known as an extreme-mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) and represents a unique probe of gravity in the strong regime and is one…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-03 Pau Amaro-Seoane

Testing deviation of GR is one of the main goals of the proposed {\emph{Laser Interferometer Space Antenna}}, a space-based gravitational-wave observatory. For the first time, we consistently compute the generation of gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicolas Yunes , C. F. Sopuerta

An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

Gravitational waves emitted during intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) into supermassive black holes could represent a very interesting source for LISA. Similarly, IMRIs of stellar-mass compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilya Mandel , Jonathan R. Gair

We analytically compute time domain gravitational waveforms produced in the final stages of extreme mass ratio inspirals of non-spinning compact objects into supermassive nearly extremal Kerr black holes. Conformal symmetry relates all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-17 Geoffrey Compère , Kwinten Fransen , Thomas Hertog , Jiang Long

The field of gravitational waves is rapidly progressing due to the noticeable advancements in the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors that has enabled the detection prospects of binary black hole mergers. Extreme mass ratio inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

This is the second in a series of papers whose aim is to generate ``adiabatic'' gravitational waveforms from the inspiral of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. In earlier work, we presented an accurate (2+1)D…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pranesh A. Sundararajan , Gaurav Khanna , Scott A. Hughes , Steve Drasco

How well is the vacuum Kerr geometry a good description of the dark, compact objects in our universe? Precision measurements of accreting matter in the deep infrared and gravitational-wave measurements of coalescing objects are finally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-10 Vitor Cardoso , Adrian del Rio , Masashi Kimura

In this study, gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiralling compact binary systems on quasicircular orbits in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity are computed in the lowest post-Newtonian approximation. By applying the stationary phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 P. I. Dyadina