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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

Extreme-mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) are among the main targets for upcoming low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In the classical scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Karamveer Kaur , Hagai Perets

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) take place when a stellar-mass black hole (BH) merges with a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The gravitational wave emission from such an event is expected to be detectable by the future Laser…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Smadar Naoz , Zoltan Haiman

In this work, we propose a new subclass of extreme-mass-ratio-inspirals (EMRIs): mass-gap EMRIs, consisting of a compact object in the lower mass gap $\sim (2.5-5) M_\odot$ and a massive black hole (MBH). The mass-gap object (MGO) may be a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Zhen Pan , Zhenwei Lyu , Huan Yang

Extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) is an important gravitational-wave (GW) source and it normally consists of one stellar-mass black hole (BH) whirling closely around a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In this Letter, we demonstrate that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-02 Xian Chen , Wen-Biao Han

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration intense radio flares occurring at cosmological distances. Many models have been proposed to explain these topical astronomical events, but none has so far been confirmed. Here we show that a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-27 Sudip Bhattacharyya

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

Even if globally neutral, in various scenarios compact objects can have a nonvanishing dipole moment. Examples include neutron stars with magnetic dipoles, black-hole microstates in the string-theory fuzzball scenario, and classical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Jacopo Lestingi , Enrico Cannizzaro , Paolo Pani

The idea that the vacuum polarization process occurring during gravitational collapse to a black hole endowed with electromagnetic structure (EMBH) could be the origin of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) is further developed. EMBHs in the range 3.2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Remo J. Ruffini

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 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 (GW) detectors. Such a source normally consists of a stellar-mass black hole (BH) and a Kerr supermassive BH (SMBH), but recent astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Xian Chen , Zhongfu Zhang

Stellar mass compact objects in short period orbits about a $10^{4.5}$--$10^{7.5}$ solar mass massive black hole (MBH) are thought to be a significant continuous-wave source of gravitational radiation for the ESA/NASA Laser Interferometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Louis J. Rubbo , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Lee Samuel Finn

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are long-duration gravitational-wave sources in which a compact object gradually spirals into a massive black hole. Their formation is governed by the interplay between stochastic angular-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chen Feng , Yong Tang

The physical nature of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a new type of cosmological transients discovered recently, is not known. It has been suggested that FRBs can be produced when a spinning supra-massive neutron star loses centrifugal support…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Bing Zhang

A binary extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (b-EMRI) is a hierarchical triple system consisting of a stellar-mass binary black hole (BBH) orbiting a central Kerr supermassive black hole (SMBH). Although predicted by several astrophysical models,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Yucheng Yin , Josh Mathews , Alvin J. K. Chua , Xian Chen

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) appear as the brightest transient phenomena in the Universe. The nature of the central engine in GRBs is a missing link in the theory of fireballs to their stellar mass progenitors. Here it is shown that rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are fascinating sources studied in modern astronomy. They are extremely luminous electromagnetic explosions in the Universe observed from cosmological distances. These unique characteristics provide a marvellous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Rahul Gupta