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The interpretation of cosmological observables requires the use of increasingly sophisticated theoretical models. Since these models are becoming computationally very expensive and display non-trivial uncertainties, the use of standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Marcos Pellejero-Ibañez , Raul E. Angulo , Giovanni Aricó , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Jens Stücker

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna are unique probes of the nature of supermassive compact objects. We compute the gravitational-wave signal emitted by a stellar-mass compact object in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Elisa Maggio , Maarten van de Meent , Paolo Pani

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

One of the most exciting potential sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) are the inspirals of approximately solar mass compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies - extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan R Gair

One of the key astrophysical sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) are the inspirals of stellar-origin compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies. These extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) have…

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), stellar-mass compact objects (SCOs) inspiralling into a massive black hole, are one of the main sources of gravitational waves expected for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To extract the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

The future space-based gravitational wave observatory, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, is expected to observe between 1-1000s extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) per year. Due to the simultaneous presence of other gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Sviatoslav Khukhlaev , Stanislav Babak

Detecting stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs) with The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is among the mission science objectives. Disentangling SGWBs of astrophysical and cosmological origin is a challenging task,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Federico Pozzoli , Riccardo Buscicchio , Christopher J. Moore , Francesco Haardt , Alberto Sesana

Systems consisting of a massive black hole and a stellar-origin compact object (CO), known as extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are of great significance for space-based gravitational-wave detectors, as they will allow for testing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-06 Hui-Min Fan , Yi-Ming Hu , Enrico Barausse , Alberto Sesana , Jian-dong Zhang , Xuefeng Zhang , Tie-Guang Zi , Jianwei Mei

The extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar mass compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies are an important source of low-frequency gravitational waves for space-based detectors. We discuss the prospects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-31 Jonathan R Gair , Edward K Porter

We describe a search for the extreme-mass-ratio inspiral sources in the Round 1B Mock LISA Data Challenge data sets. The search algorithm is a Monte-Carlo search based on the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, but also incorporates simulated,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R. Gair , Edward K. Porter , Stanislav Babak , Leor Barack

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), consisting of a massive black hole and a stellar compact object, are one of the most important sources for space-borne gravitational wave detectors like TianQin. Their population study can be used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-08 Hui-Min Fan , Xiang-Yu Lyu , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu , Rong-Jia Yang , Tai-Fu Feng

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

We explore the precision with which the Einstein Telescope (ET) will be able to measure the parameters of intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs). We calculate the parameter estimation errors using the Fisher Matrix formalism and present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair

One of the primary objectives for space-borne gravitational wave detectors is the detection of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This undertaking poses a substantial challenge because of the complex and long EMRI signals, further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Yi-Yang Guo , He Wang , Minghui Du

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources for future space-based gravitational wave interferometers. Measurements of EMRI gravitational waves are expected to determine the characteristics of their sources with…

The space-based gravitational-wave detector eLISA has been selected as the ESA L3 mission, and the mission design will be finalised by the end of this decade. To prepare for mission formulation over the next few years, several outstanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-10 Alvin J. K. Chua , Jonathan R. Gair

Presented in this paper is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) routine for conducting coherent parameter estimation for interferometric gravitational wave observations of an inspiral of binary compact objects using data from multiple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Röver , Renate Meyer , Nelson Christensen

In this work, we investigate detection rates and parameter estimation of strongly-lensed extreme mass-ratio inspirals (LEMRIs) in the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Our results indicate that LEMRIs constitute a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Martina Toscani , Ollie Burke , Chang Liu , Nour Bou Zamel , Nicola Tamanini , Federico Pozzoli

The future space-borne Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational waves (GW) from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI) binaries which may live in nontrivial environments such as accretion disks. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Marco Immanuel B. Rivera , Reinabelle C. Reyes