English
Related papers

Related papers: Faster computation of adiabatic EMRIs using resona…

200 papers

Extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) signals pose significant challenges in gravitational wave (GW) astronomy owing to their low-frequency nature and highly complex waveforms, which occupy a high-dimensional parameter space with numerous…

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

Using numerical simulations of two-photon electronic absorption with femtosecond pulses in Na$_2$ we show that: i) it is possible to avoid the characteristic saturation or dumped Rabi oscillations in the yield of absorption by time-delaying…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Pablo Sampedro , Bo Y. Chang , Ignacio R. Sola

In this paper, we derive a set of equations of motions for binaries on eccentric orbits undergoing spin-induced precession that can efficiently be integrated on the radiation-reaction timescale. We find a family of solutions with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-22 Antoine Klein

Compact remnants on orbits with peri-apses close to the Schwarzschild radius of a massive black hole (MBH) lose orbital energy by emitting gravitational waves (GWs) and spiral in. Scattering with other stars allows successful inspiral of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Clovis Hopman

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most promising sources for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, such as LISA. To fully leverage the scientific potential, the GW templates required for parameter estimation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Viktor Skoupý

We show that transient resonances occur in the two body problem in general relativity, in the highly relativistic, extreme mass-ratio regime for spinning black holes. These resonances occur when the ratio of polar and radial orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Eanna E. Flanagan , Tanja Hinderer

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

In this paper we discuss the development of a fast and accurate waveform model for the quasi-circular orbital evolution of extreme-mass-ratio-inspirals (EMRIs). This model simply employs the data of a few numerical Teukoulsky-based energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-23 Wen-Biao Han

We provide a method for analytically constructing high-accuracy templates for the gravitational wave signals emitted by compact binaries moving in inspiralling eccentric orbits. By contrast to the simpler problem of modeling the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thibault Damour , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer

Extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) events are vulnerable to perturbations by the stellar background, which can abort them prematurely by deflecting EMRI orbits to plunging ones that fall directly into the massive black hole (MBH), or to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Tal Alexander

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals~(EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Inteferometric Space Antenna~(LISA) are unique probes of astrophysics and fundamental physics. Parameter estimation for these sources is challenging, especially because the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Richard Brito , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

By employing an accelerated weighting method, we establish arbitrary polynomial and exponential pointwise convergence for multiple ergodic averages under general balancing conditions in both discrete and continuous settings, including…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Zhicheng Tong , Yong Li

Adaptive mesh refinement efficiently facilitates the computation of gravitational waveforms in numerical relativity. However, determining precisely when, where, and to what extent to refine when solving the Einstein equations poses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 William K. Black , David Neilsen , Eric W. Hirschmann , David F. Van Komen , Milinda Fernando

The popular waveform templates of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals usually omit the mass-ratio corrections in the conservative dynamics, and employ adiabatic approximation to include the radiation reaction. With the help of effective-one-body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 Ping Shen , Wen-Biao Han , Chen Zhang , Shu-Cheng Yang , Xing-Yu Zhong , Ye Jiang , Qiuxin Cui

Gravitational waveforms and fluxes from extreme mass--ratio inspirals can be computed using time--domain methods with accuracy that is fast approaching that of frequency--domain methods. We study in detail the computational efficiency of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Jonathan L. Barton , David J. Lazar , Daniel J. Kennefick , Gaurav Khanna , Lior M. Burko

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

Future space-borne interferometers will be able to detect gravitational waves at $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-1}$ Hz. At this band extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) can be promising gravitational wave sources. In this paper, we investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-30 Shuo Xin , Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are promising target sources for space-based interferometers such as LISA, Taiji, and Tianqin. Depending on the astrophysical environment, such as close perturbers or an accretion disk, EMRI orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Priti Gupta , Takafumi Kakehi , Takahiro Tanaka

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