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Stellar-mass black hole binaries (SBHBs), like those currently being detected with the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories LIGO and Virgo, are also an anticipated GW source for LISA. LISA will observe them during the early…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-07 Alexandre Toubiana , Sylvain Marsat , Stanislav Babak , John Baker , Tito Dal Canton

LISA will extend the search for gravitational waves (GWs) at $0.1\,{-}\,100$ mHz where loud signals from coalescing binary black holes of $ 10^4 \,{-}\,10^7\,\rm M_{\odot}$ are expected. Depending on their mass and luminosity distance, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Gaia Lops , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Monica Colpi , Silvia Bonoli , Alberto Sesana , Alberto Mangiagli

One of the central goals of LISA is the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of supermassive black holes. Contrary to stellar-mass black hole mergers, such events are expected to be rich X-ray sources due to the accretion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-09 Tito Dal Canton , Alberto Mangiagli , Scott C. Noble , Jeremy Schnittman , Andrew Ptak , Antoine Klein , Alberto Sesana , Jordan Camp

Since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 by LIGO from the binary black hole merger GW150914, gravitational-wave astronomy has developed significantly, with over 200 compact binary merger events cataloged. The use of neural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Ethan Silver , Plamen Krastev , Edo Berger

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will play a vital role in constraining the origin and evolution of massive black holes throughout the Universe. In this study we use a waveform model (IMRPhenomXPHM) that includes both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-28 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Hannah Middleton , Alberto Vecchio

Inaccurate modeling of gravitational-wave signals can introduce systematic biases in the inferred source parameters. As detector sensitivities improve and signals become louder, mitigating such waveform-induced systematics becomes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Lodovico Capuano , Massimo Vaglio , Rohit S. Chandramouli , Chantal L Pitte , Adrien Kuntz , Enrico Barausse

Coalescing binary black hole mergers are expected to be the strongest gravitational wave sources for ground-based interferometers, such as the LIGO, VIRGO, and GEO600, as well as the space-based interferometer LISA. Until recently it has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John G. Baker , Sean T. McWilliams , James R. van Meter , Joan Centrella , Dae-Il Choi , Bernard J. Kelly , Michael Koppitz

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

We explore the predictions for detectable gravitational-wave signals from merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in massive short-period stellar binaries. We find that $\sim 500$ events per year could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-07 S. E. de Mink , I. Mandel

The recent Advanced LIGO detections of coalescing black hole binaries (BHBs) imply a large population of such systems emitting at milli-Hz frequencies, accessible to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We show that these systems…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Antoine Klein

Modelling the end point of binary black hole mergers is a cornerstone of modern gravitational-wave astronomy. Extracting multiple quasinormal mode frequencies from the ringdown signal allows the remnant black hole to be studied in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Eliot Finch , Christopher J. Moore

We revisit the predictions for the merger rate of massive black hole binaries detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and their background signal for pulsar-timing arrays. We focus on the effect of the delays between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-15 Enrico Barausse , Irina Dvorkin , Michael Tremmel , Marta Volonteri , Matteo Bonetti

We determine the main properties of the Galactic binary black hole (BBH) population detectable by LISA and strategies to distinguish them from the much more numerous white dwarf binaries. We simulate BBH populations based on cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Alberto Sesana , Astrid Lamberts , Antoine Petiteau

The dynamical formation of stellar-mass black hole-black hole binaries has long been a promising source of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Mass segregation, gravitational focusing, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-30 Ryan M. O'Leary , Yohai Meiron , Bence Kocsis

The detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary black holes by the LIGO Collaboration has opened a new window to astrophysics. With the sensitivities of ground based detectors in the coming years we can only detect the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Ilias Cholis

Dense environments hosting compact binary mergers can leave an imprint on the gravitational-wave emission which, in turn, can be used to identify the characteristics of the environment. To demonstrate such scenario, we consider a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-19 Samson H. W. Leong , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Miguel Gracia-Linares , Pablo Laguna

The recent Advanced LIGO detection of gravitational waves from the binary black hole GW150914 suggests there exists a large population of merging binary black holes in the Universe. Although most are too distant to be individually resolved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Thomas Callister , Letizia Sammut , Shi Qiu , Ilya Mandel , Eric Thrane

The Galaxy is suspected to contain hundreds of millions of binary white dwarf systems, a large fraction of which will have sufficiently small orbital period to emit gravitational radiation in band for space-based gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Tyson B. Littenberg

Understanding the formation and evolution of the stellar-mass binary black holes discovered by LIGO and Virgo is a challenge that spans many areas of astrophysics, from stellar evolution, dynamics and accretion disks, to possible exotic…

The observability of gravitational waves from supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes by the forecoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and the physics we can learn from the observations, will depend on two basic factors:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti