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In spherical galaxies, binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have difficulty reaching sub-parsec separations due to depletion of stars on orbits that intersect the massive binary - the final-parsec problem. Galaxies that form via major…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Fazeel Khan , Andreas Just , David Merritt

We perform a systematic search for sub-parsec binary supermassive black holes (BHs) in normal broad line quasars at z<0.8, using multi-epoch SDSS spectroscopy of the broad Hbeta line. Our working model is that: only one of the two BHs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yue Shen , Xin Liu , Abraham Loeb , Scott Tremaine

In this work we evaluate whether the gravitational wave background recently observed by a number of different pulsar timing arrays could be due to merging primordial supermassive black hole binaries. We find that for homogeneously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Paul Frederik Depta , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Pedro Schwaller , Carlo Tasillo

Detecting binary black hole (BBH) mergers with quantifiable orbital eccentricity would confirm the existence of a dynamical formation channel for these binaries. The current state-of-the-art gravitational wave searches of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Bhooshan Gadre , Kanchan Soni , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Maria Haney , Sanjit Mitra

As gravitational wave astronomy has entered an era of routine detections, it becomes increasingly important to precisely measure the physical parameters of individual events and infer population properties. Eccentricity is a key observable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Yi-Fan Wang , Alexander H. Nitz

If binary intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; with masses between 100 and $10^4 \Msun$) form in dense stellar clusters, their inspiral will be detectable with the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) out to several Gpc. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Cole Miller , Marc Freitag

We investigate the evolution of low mass (Md /Mb = 0.005) misaligned gaseous discs around eccentric supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. These are expected to form from randomly oriented accretion events onto a SMBH binary formed in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hossam Aly , Walter Dehnen , Chris Nixon , Andrew King

We investigate the dynamics of eccentric binary pulsars embedded in dark matter environments. While previous studies have primarily focused on circular orbits in collisionless dark matter halos, we extend this framework to eccentric systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Giorgio Nicolini , Andrea Maselli , Miguel Zilhão

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA) around the world are using the incredible consistency of millisecond pulsars to measure low frequency gravitational waves from (super)Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries. We use comprehensive MBH merger models based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Luke Zoltan Kelley , Laura Blecha , Lars Hernquist , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

Inspiraling supermassive black hole binary systems with high orbital eccentricity are important sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Eccentricity adds orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Balázs Mikóczi , Bence Kocsis , Péter Forgács , Mátyás Vasúth

Compact binary systems with black holes are the primary sources of interferometric advanced gravitational wave detectors. Astrophysical models suggest finite possibility of binary systems with appreciable non-zero eccentricity in the dense…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Nirban Bose , Archana Pai

In this letter we study the eccentricity evolution of a massive black hole (MBH) binary (MBHB) embedded in a rotating stellar cusp. Following the observation that stars on counter-rotating (with respect to the MBHB) orbits extract angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Alberto Sesana , Alessia Gualandris , Massimo Dotti

(Abridged) To gain insight into the dynamical influence of a supermassive black hole binary on a circumbinary accretion disk, we investigate the binary and viscous torque densities throughout such a disk, with emphasis on the final density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Michal Pirog , Siddharth Mahesh , Sean T. McWilliams

The localization of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers using gravitational waves is critical in understanding the properties of the binaries' host galaxies, observing possible electromagnetic emission from the mergers, or using them as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 K. Rainer Corley , Imre Bartos , Leo P. Singer , Andrew R. Williamson , Zoltan Haiman , Bence Kocsis , Samaya Nissanke , Zsuzsa Marka , Szabolcs Marka

Binary black holes (BBHs) in eccentric orbits produce distinct modulations in gravitational waves (GWs); measuring orbital eccentricity provides evidence for dynamical binary formation channels. We analyze 57 GW events from the…

Inspiraling compact binaries have been identified as one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves for interferometric detectors. Most of these binaries are expected to have circularized by the time their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Martel , Eric Poisson

We determine the ability of Cosmic Explorer, a proposed third-generation gravitational-wave observatory, to detect eccentric binary neutron stars and to measure their eccentricity. We find that for a matched-filter search, template banks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Amber K. Lenon , Duncan A. Brown , Alexander H. Nitz

We show that the gravitational waveform emitted by a binary on an eccentric orbit can be naturally decomposed into a series of harmonics. The frequencies of these harmonics depend upon the radial frequency, $f_{\mathrm{r}}$, determined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 Ben G. Patterson , Sharon Mary Tomson , Stephen Fairhurst

In the theories with extra dimensions, gravitational waves can leak into extra dimensions, resulting in a reduction in the amplitude of the observed gravitational waves. Such an effect modifies the standard luminosity distance of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Xu-Jie Zhu , Ji-Yu Song , Tao Zhu , Xin Zhang

The observed distribution of globular cluster binary radio pulsars in the eccentricity versus orbital period plane can be explained as a result of binary-single star interactions. Our numerical and analytical study hints that the highest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Manjari Bagchi , Alak Ray