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Stellar-mass binary black holes will sweep through the frequency band of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for months to years before appearing in the audio-band of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. One can expect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Becca Ewing , Surabhi Sachdev , Ssohrab Borhanian , B. S. Sathyaprakash

In a previous article, we obtained the first-ever list of astrometric binary asteroid candidates. Some of these candidates have now been confirmed. In that previous work, however, the details of the statistical methods were not provided.…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect ~ 100 galactic binary systems comprised of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). Identifying the nature of the constituents of these binaries as BHs or NSs, and distinguishing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Hannah Middleton , Panagiota Kolitsidou , Antoine Klein , Connor Adam , Rowan Chalmers , Alberto Vecchio

Binary systems of massive black holes will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) throughout the entire Universe. Observations of gravitational waves from this class of sources will have important repercussions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alberto Vecchio

Here we present speckle observations of 16 low-separation ($s<30$ AU) high probability candidate binaries from the catalog by Medan et al., where secondaries typically lack astrometric solutions in Gaia. From these speckle observations, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Ilija Medan , Sébastien Lépine , Zachary Hartman , Keivan G. Stassun

The next decade is expected to see the launch of one or more space based gravitational wave detectors: the European lead Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA); and one or more Chinese mission concepts, Taiji and TianQin. One of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Neil J. Cornish

On the basis of GWTC-3, we discuss the detection prospect of extra-Galactic binary black holes (BBHs) by space gravitational-wave interferometers. In particular, targeting BBHs with component masses around 5-100$M_\odot$, we directly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Naoki Seto , Koutarou Kyutoku

The Gaia data will help to improve the construction of a luminosity function for the disk and the halo and will provide a more accurate determination of the age of our solar neighborhood. Moreover, reliable stellar dynamical investigations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Jordan

General importance and capabilities of observations of eclipsing binaries by the forthcoming ESA mission GAIA are discussed. Availability of spectroscopic observations and a large number of photometric bands on board will make it possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomaz Zwitter

All the physical processes involved in the formation, merging, and accretion history of massive black holes along the hierarchical build--up of cosmic structures are likely to leave an imprint on the gravitational waves detectable by future…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sesana , M. Volonteri , F. Haardt

The Gaia mission and its follow-up observations have discovered a few candidates of non-interacting single black holes (BHs) and visible stars, Gaia BH1, BH2, and BH3, collectively called ``astrometric BH binaries''. This paper investigates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Ataru Tanikawa , Long Wang , Michiko S. Fujii , Alessandro A. Trani , Toshinori Hayashi , Yasushi Suto

The coalescence of massive black hole binaries (with masses $10^4 - 10^7 M_{\odot}$) leads to gravitational wave emission that is detectable out to high redshifts ($z \sim 20$) with the forthcoming LISA observatory. We combine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

Asteroids with companions constitute an excellent sample for studying the collisional and dynamical evolution of minor planets. The currently known binary population were discovered by different complementary techniques that produce, for…

Gaia is a very ambitious mission of the European Space Agency. At the heart of Gaia lie the measurements of the positions, distances, space motions, brightnesses and astrophysical parameters of stars, which represent fundamental pillars of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-05 L. Eyer , B. Holl , D. Pourbaix , N. Mowlavi , C. Siopis , F. Barblan , D. W. Evans , P. North

We use the framework of microlensing to show that observations of binary systems, such as those made by {\it Gaia}, combined with follow-up weak lensing measurements, can provide a means to probe halos of exotic matter, possibly clumped…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 George Pappas , Ippocratis D. Saltas , Laurent Eyer

We study prospects for detecting extragalactic binary black holes similar to GW150914 by evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA). We find that the majority of detected binary black holes will not merge within reasonable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-30 Koutarou Kyutoku , Naoki Seto

We investigate the possibility of detecting planetary or stellar companions orbiting white dwarf binaries using the LISA gravitational radiation detector. Specifically, we consider the acceleration of the barycenter of the white dwarf…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Jason H. Steffen , Dong-Hong Wu , Shane L. Larson

Compact object binaries (a black hole or a neutron star orbiting a non-degenerate stellar companion) are key to our understanding of late massive star evolution, in addition to being some of the best probes of extreme gravity and accretion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-30 P. Gandhi , C. Dashwood Brown , Y. Zhao , K. El-Badry , T. J. Maccarone , C. Knigge , J. Anderson , M. Middleton , J. C. A. Miller-Jones

The gravitational pull of an unseen companion to a luminous star is well-known to cause deviations to the parallax and proper motion of a star. In a previous paper in this series, we argue that the astrometric mission Gaia can identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Jeff J. Andrews

We present a rigorous identification of candidates for dormant black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs) in binaries using summary statistics from Gaia DR3, rather than full orbital solutions. Although Gaia astrometric orbits have already…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Johanna Müller-Horn , Hans-Walter Rix , Kareem El-Badry , Ben Pennell , Matthew Green , Jiadong Li , Rhys Seeburger