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The future space-based gravitational wave observatories are expected to provide unprecedented opportunities to explore intricate characteristics of black hole binaries, particularly for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Tieguang Zi , Shailesh Kumar

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most interesting gravitational wave (GW) sources for space-borne GW detectors. However, successful GW data analysis remains challenging due to many issues, ranging from the difficulty of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Xue-Ting Zhang , Chris Messenger , Natalia Korsakova , Man Leong Chan , Yi-Ming Hu , Jing-dong Zhang

We study binary black hole mergers in the extreme mass-ratio limit. We determine the energy, angular momentum, and linear momentum of the post-merger, remnant black hole. Unlike previous works, we perform our analysis directly in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Barak Rom , Re'em Sari

It is shown that the axial and polar perturbations of the spherically symmetric black hole can be described in a gauge-invariant way. The reduced phase space describing gravitational waves outside of the horizon is described by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Jacek Jezierski

Recently the non-local gravity theory has come out to be a good candidate for an effective field theory of quantum gravity and also it can provide rich phenomenology to understand late-time accelerating expansion of the universe. For any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-23 Utkarsh Kumar , Sukanta Panda , Avani Patel

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

We engage with the challenge of calculating the waveforms of gravitational waves emitted by spinless binary black hole merger in extreme mass-ratio limit. We model the stellar-mass black hole as a test-particle, initially on a circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Ilan Strusberg , Barak Rom , Re'em Sari

On the basis of a recently proposed strategy of finite element integration in time domain for partial differential equations with a singular source term, we present a fourth order algorithm for non-rotating black hole perturbations in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-17 Patxi Ritter , Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci , Sofiane Aoudia , Stephane Cordier

Measurements of gravitational waves from the inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive black hole are unique probes to test General Relativity (GR) and MBH properties, as well as the stellar distribution about these holes in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Patrick Brem , Jorge Cuadra , Philip J. Armitage

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

The capture of a compact object in a galactic nucleus by a massive black hole (MBH) is the best way to map space and time around it. Compact objects such as stellar black holes on a capture orbit with a very high eccentricity have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Carlos Sopuerta , Patrick Brem

This review is concerned with the gravitational self-force acting on a mass particle in orbit around a large black hole. Renewed interest in this old problem is driven by the prospects of detecting gravitational waves from strongly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-08 Leor Barack

The Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet (EdGB) theory is a modified theory of gravity which include a scalar field to couple with the higher order curvature terms. It has already been constrained with various observations include the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Jing Tan , Jian-dong Zhang , Hui-Min Fan , Jianwei Mei

We set to weigh the black holes at their event horizons in various spacetimes and obtain masses which are substantially higher than their asymptotic values. In each case, the horizon mass of a Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}m, or Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-09 Yuan K. Ha

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

The capture of a compact object in a galactic nucleus by a massive black hole (MBH), an extreme-mass ratio inspiral (EMRI), is the best way to map space and time around it. Recent work on stellar dynamics has demonstrated that there seems…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Patrick Brem , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Carlos F. Sopuerta

The exact properties of dark matter remain largely unknown despite the accumulating evidence. If dark matter is composed of weakly interacting massive particles, it would be accreted by the black hole in the galactic center and form a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gen-Liang Li , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) (capture and inspiral of a compact stellar mass object into a Massive Black Hole (MBH)) are among the most interesting objects for the gravitational wave astronomy. It is a very challenging task to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-11 Yan Wang , Yu Shang , Stanislav Babak

Gravitational wave signals from extreme mass ratio inspirals are a key target for space-based gravitational wave detectors. These systems are typically modeled as a distributionally-forced Teukolsky equation, where the smaller black hole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Manas Vishal , Scott E. Field , Katie Rink , Sigal Gottlieb , Gaurav Khanna

We examine the electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational wave (GW) signatures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) spiraling into a supermassive black hole (extreme mass-ratio inspirals or EMRIs), embedded in a thin, radiation-pressure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Bence Kocsis , Nicolas Yunes , Abraham Loeb