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The dynamical formation channels of gravitational wave (GW) sources typically involve a stage when the compact object binary source interacts with the environment, which may excite its eccentricity, yielding efficient GW emission. For the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Erez Michaely

Stellar black hole (BH) binaries are one of the most promising gravitational wave (GW) sources for GW detection by the ground-based detectors. Nuclear star clusters (NCs) located at the centre of galaxies are known to harbour massive black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-13 Jongsuk Hong , Hyung Mok Lee

We estimate the amplitude of the nano-Hz stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) resulting from an unresolved population of inspiralling massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). To this aim, we use the L-Galaxies semi-analytical model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-24 David Izquierdo-Villalba , Alberto Sesana , Silvia Bonoli , Monica Colpi

The existence of massive stellar black hole binaries (MBHBs), with primary black hole (BH) masses $\ge 31 \, M_\odot$, was proven by the detection of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW150914 during the first LIGO/Virgo observing run (O1),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-14 L. Graziani , R. Schneider , S. Marassi , W. Del Pozzo , M. Mapelli , N. Giacobbo

We consider binary black holes (BBHs) in a hierarchical triple system where a more compact, less-massive binary is emitting detectable gravitational waves (GWs), and the tertiary is a supermassive BH at the center of a nuclear star cluster.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Abraham Loeb

The formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the Universe and its role in the properties of the galaxies is one of the open questions in astrophysics and cosmology. Though, traditionally, electromagnetic waves have been instrumental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-16 Vida Saeedzadeh , Suvodip Mukherjee , Arif Babul , Michael Tremmel , Thomas R. Quinn

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) offer insights into the universe expansion. The spectral siren method, used without electromagnetic counterparts (EMC), infers cosmic expansion (Hubble constant) by relating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Grégoire Pierra

A supermassive binary black-hole candidate SDSS J1430+2303 reported recently motivates us to investigate an imminent binary of supermassive black holes as potential gravitational wave source, the radiated gravitational waves at the end of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 Xingyu Zhong , Wenbiao Han , Ziren Luo , Yueliang Wu

The steadily improving sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) suggests that gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) systems in the nearby universe will be de- tectable sometime during the next decade.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 Joseph Simon , Abigail Polin , Andrea Lommen , Ben Stappers , Lee Samuel Finn , F A Jenet , B Christy

We calculate the gravitational waves (GWs) produced by primordial black holes (PBHs) in the presence of the inflaton condensate in the early Universe. Combining the GW production from the evaporation process, the gravitational scattering of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Mathieu Gross , Essodjolo Kpatcha , Yann Mambrini , Maria Olalla Olea-Romacho , Rishav Roshan

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses between $10^{14}$ and $10^{20}$ kg are candidates to contribute a substantial fraction of the total dark matter abundance. When in orbit around the center of a star, which can possibly be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Vitorio A. De Lorenci , David I. Kaiser , Patrick Peter , Lucas S. Ruiz , Noah E. Wolfe

Discovery of GRB clusters allows us to determine coordinates and characteristics of their sources. The objects radiating GRBs are reliably identified with black hole binaries, including the Galactic binaries. One of the unusual GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-02 Alexander Vasilievich Kuznetsov

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

We present a new type of observation relating the gravitational wave emission of supermassive black hole mergers to their electromagnetic counterparts. This dual emission involves variability of a relativistic jet arising from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 M. Tápai , L. Á. Gergely , Z. Keresztes , P. J. Wiita , Gopal-Krishna , P. L. Biermann

The most massive black holes in our Universe form binaries at the centre of merging galaxies. The recent evidence for a gravitational-wave (GW) background from pulsar timing may constitute the first observation that these supermassive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Jakob Stegmann , Lorenz Zwick , Sander M. Vermeulen , Fabio Antonini , Lucio Mayer

It was shown by (Nakamura et al. 1997), (Ioka et al. 1998), and (Sasaki et al. 2016) that primordial black holes (PBHs) binaries can form effectively at the cosmological stage of radiation dominance, and the merge of the PBHs in pairs can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-02 Yu. N. Eroshenko

The first discovery of the gravitational wave (GW) event, GW150914, suggests a higher merger rate of black-hole (BH) binaries. If this is true, a number of BH binaries will be observed via the second-generation GW detectors, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

A large primordial density perturbation of the Hubble scale will gravitationally collapse, generating an outgoing sound shell, whether or not a primordial black hole (PBH) is formed. In this Letter, we report a hybrid numerical analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Xiang-Xi Zeng , Zhuan Ning , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Shao-Jiang Wang , Heling Deng , Rong-Gen Cai

Most of compact binary systems are expected to circularize before the frequency of emitted gravitational waves (GWs) enters the sensitivity band of the ground based interferometric detectors. However, several mechanisms have been proposed…

We investigate the evolution of supermassive binary black holes (BBHs) in galaxies with realistic property distributions and the gravitational-wave (GW) radiation from the cosmic population of these BBHs. We incorporate a comprehensive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-24 Yunfeng Chen , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu