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Cold dark matter may form dense structures around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), significantly influencing their local environments. These dense regions are ideal sites for the formation of extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chen Feng , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

We study the prospects of future gravitational wave (GW) detectors in probing primordial black hole (PBH) binaries. We show that across a broad mass range from $10^{-5}M_\odot$ to $10^7M_\odot$, future GW interferometers provide a potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 Oriol Pujolas , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

"Blip glitches" are a type of short duration transient noise in LIGO data. The cause for the majority of these is currently unknown. Short duration transient noise creates challenges for searches of the highest mass binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 Alexander Harvey Nitz

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

Gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers and binary low-mass black hole (BLMBH) mergers are highly similar in the early inspiral phase. Consequently, the astrophysical origin of recently detected low-mass compact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Sulagna Bhattacharya , Shasvath Kapadia , Basudeb Dasgupta

Theoretical models for the expected merger rates of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are vital for planned gravitational-wave detection experiments such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Using collisionless $N$-body…

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) merging in dwarf galaxies will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) in the mid-2030s. Previous cosmological hydrodynamic simulations have shown the prediction of massive black holes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-17 Victoria I. De Cun , Jillian M. Bellovary , Michael L. Katz

With the discovery of both binary black hole mergers and a binary neutron star merger the field of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics has really begun. The current advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors are laser interferometers that will improve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Gijs Nelemans

The two recent gravitational-wave events GW190425 and GW190814 from the third observing run of LIGO/Virgo have both a companion which is unexpected if originated from a neutron star or a stellar black hole, with masses $[1.6-2.5]~M_\odot$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-28 Sebastien Clesse , Juan Garcia-Bellido

In the recent second part of the third observation run by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, a candidate with sub-solar mass components was reported, which we labelled as SSM200308. This study investigates the premise that primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

The detectability of gravitational waves originating from primordial black holes or other large macroscopic dark-matter candidates inspiraling into Sagittarius ${\rm A}^{\!*}$ is investigated. It is shown that LISA should be a formidable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-12 Florian Kuhnel , Glenn D. Starkman , Katherine Freese , Andrew Matas

The formation of compact stellar-mass binaries is a difficult, but interesting problem in astrophysics. There are two main formation channels: In the field via binary star evolution, or in dense stellar systems via dynamical interactions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Xian Chen , Pau Amaro-Seoane

Recent direct registration of gravitational waves by LIGO and astronomical observations of the universe at redshifts 5-10 demonstrate that the standard astrophysics and cosmology are in tension with the data. The origin of the source of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 A. D. Dolgov

Formation of significant number of primordial black holes (PBHs) is realized if and only if primordial density fluctuations have a large amplitude, which means that tensor perturbations generated from these scalar perturbations as a second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Ryo Saito , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

In this paper, we examine whether low-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) can be considered a plausible dark matter candidate in galactic halos. We derive the relativistic dynamics of PBHs around the heavy compact objects and evaluate their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 Sohrab Rahvar

Supermassive black holes are investigated as possible sources for low-frequency bursts of gravity waves. The event rate for `known' supermassive black holes at intermediate and high redshifts, inferred from the quasar luminosity function,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. G. Haehnelt

The next generation of ground-based gravitational wave detectors may detect a few mergers of comparable-mass M\simeq 100-1000 Msun ("intermediate-mass'', or IMBH) spinning black holes. Black hole spin is known to have a significant impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Richard O'Shaughnessy , Birjoo Vaishnav , James Healy , Deirdre Shoemaker

We compute the expected gravitational wave signal from coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries at the center of galaxies in a hierarchical structure formation scenario in which seed holes of intermediate mass form far up in the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Sesana , Francesco Haardt , Piero Madau , Marta Volonteri

The detection of a sub-solar mass black hole could yield dramatic new insights into the nature of dark matter and early-Universe physics, as such objects lack a traditional astrophysical formation mechanism. Gravitational waves allow for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-16 Noah E. Wolfe , Salvatore Vitale , Colm Talbot

Nakamura, Sasaki, Tanaka, and Thorne have recently estimated the initial distribution of binary MACHOs in the galactic halo assuming that the MACHOs are primordial half solar mass black holes, and considered their coalescence as a possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 William A. Hiscock