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The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational wave signals from ~100 extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. The long duration and large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R Gair , Ilya Mandel , Linqing Wen

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of ~ 1-10 solar-mass compact objects into ~ million solar-mass massive black holes can serve as excellent probes of strong-field general relativity. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R Gair , Ilya Mandel , Linqing Wen

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

The extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes are an important class of source for the future space-based gravitational-wave detector LISA. Detecting signals from EMRIs will require…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-11 Alvin J. K. Chua , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair

The inspirals of compact objects into massive black holes are some of the most exciting of the potential sources of gravitational waves for the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Observations of such extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Jonathan R Gair

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), namely binary systems composed of a massive black hole and a compact stellar-mass object, are anticipated to be among the gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-23 Chang Liu , Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini

Scientific analysis for the gravitational-wave detector LISA will require theoretical waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that extensively cover all possible orbital and spin configurations around astrophysical Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Soichiro Isoyama , Ryuichi Fujita , Alvin J. K. Chua , Hiroyuki Nakano , Adam Pound , Norichika Sago

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

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) are key sources for the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA, and are considered promising probes of fundamental physics. Here, we present the first complete Bayesian analysis of EMRI…

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen , Jonathan Gair

The space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to observe the gravitational-wave signals from systems comprised of a massive black hole and a stellar-mass compact object. These systems are known as extreme-mass-ratio…

The capture of compact stellar remnants by galactic black holes provides a unique laboratory for exploring the near horizon geometry of the Kerr spacetime, or possible departures from general relativity if the central cores prove not to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 N. J. Cornish

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a compact object orbits a massive black hole, are a key source of gravitational waves for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Due to their small mass ratio, ($\epsilon \sim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Philip Lynch , Vojtěch Witzany , Maarten van de Meent , Niels Warburton

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the mHz frequency window of the gravitational wave (GW) landscape. Among all the new GW sources expected to emit in this frequency band, extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) constitute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Stanislav Babak , David Izquierdo-Villalba

The inspirals of stellar-mass mass compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies are one of the most important sources of gravitational radiation for space-based detectors like LISA or eLISA. These extreme-mass-ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Jonathan R. Gair , Adam Pound , Scott A. Hughes , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources of gravitational waves for space-based detectors such as LISA. However, their detection remains a major data analysis challenge due to the signals' complexity and length. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Speri , Rodrigo Tenorio , Christian Chapman-Bird , Davide Gerosa

Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), the inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes, are predicted to be observed by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). A sufficiently large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Shashwat Singh , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird , Christopher P L Berry , John Veitch

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. binary systems comprised by a compact stellar-mass object orbiting a massive black hole, are expected to be among the primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming LISA mission. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

One of the sources of gravitational waves for the proposed space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), are the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan R. Gair , Christopher Tang , Marta Volonteri
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