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Stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) near supermassive black holes (SMBH) in galactic nuclei undergo eccentricity oscillations due to gravitational perturbations from the SMBH. Previous works have shown that this channel can contribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-25 Bao-Minh Hoang , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Will Farr , Jess McIver

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

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

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

Some electromagnetically observed ultra-compact binaries will be strong gravitational wave sources for space-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). These sources have historically been referred to as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-05 Tyson B. Littenberg , Ananthu K. Lali

In the context of the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, galactic binary systems of white dwarfs and neutron stars will represent the dominant source of Gravitational Waves (GWs) within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Stéphane Mathis , Marie-Christine Angonin

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors have commenced observations. Gravitational waves from the merger of binary black hole systems and a binary neutron star system have been observed. A major goal for LIGO and Virgo is to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-30 Nelson Christensen

The LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) collaboration has detected gravitational waves from 90 Compact Binary Coalescences. In addition to fortifying the linearized theory of General Relativity (GR), the statistical ensemble of detections also provides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Sourath Ghosh , Alexander Weaver , Jose Sanjuan , Paul Fulda , Guido Mueller

Identifying the properties of the first generation of seeds of massive black holes is key to understanding the merger history and growth of galaxies. Mergers between ~100 solar mass seed black holes generate gravitational waves in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-07 Jonathan R Gair , Ilya Mandel , Alberto Sesana , Alberto Vecchio

We discuss the gravitational lensing of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binaries, in the context of advanced LIGO type gravitational wave detectors. We consider properties of the expected observational data with cut on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Yun Wang , Albert Stebbins , Edwin L. Turner

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based gravitational wave telescope with the goal of measuring gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band, which is dominated by millions of Galactic binaries. While…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

Gravitational wave measurements will provide insight into the population of coalescing compact binaries throughout the universe. We describe and demonstrate a flexible parametric method to infer the event rate as a function of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-20 Daniel Wysocki , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Gravitational wave observations of compact binary mergers are already providing stringent tests of general relativity and constraints on modified gravity. Ground-based interferometric detectors will soon reach design sensitivity and they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-07 Scott E. Perkins , Nicolás Yunes , Emanuele Berti

The detection of an intermediate-mass black hole population ($10^2-10^6$ $M_{\odot}$) will provide clues to their formation environments (e.g., disks of active galactic nuclei, globular clusters) and illuminate a potential pathway to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Avi Vajpeyi , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Gregory Ashton , Thomas Alford , Sierra Garza , Maximiliano Isi , Jonah Kanner , T. J. Massinger , Liting Xiao

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the universe. Here we revisit the wave-optics effects induced by dark matter (DM) halos on the GW signals of merging massive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Zucheng Gao , Xian Chen , Yi-Ming Hu , Jian-Dong Zhang , Shunjia Huang

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves from the population of merging massive black holes binaries (MBHBs) throughout the Universe. The LISA data stream will feature many superposed signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Senwen Deng , Stanislav Babak , Sylvain Marsat

The rapid advance of gravitational-wave (GW) detector facilities makes it very important to estimate the event rates of possible detection candidates. We consider an additional possibility of GW bursts produced during parabolic encounters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bence Kocsis , Merse E. Gaspar , Szabolcs Marka

We present several estimates of the rate of simultaneous detection of the merging of a binary system of neutron stars in the electromagnetic and the gravitational wave domains, assuming that they produce short GRBs. We have based our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Karelle Siellez , Michel Boer , Bruce Gendre

Mergers of white dwarf binaries are a possible progenitor channel for Type Ia supernovae. While white dwarfs are abundant in the universe and relatively well understood, their gravitational wave signals have not yet been directly observed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Giona Sala , Chiara Brandenstein , Sebastian Baum , Peter W. Graham

We investigate the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) produced by merging binary black holes (BBHs) and binary neutron stars (BNSs) in the frequency ranges of LIGO/Virgo/Kagra and LISA. We develop three analytical models, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-28 Leonard Lehoucq , Irina Dvorkin , Rahul Srinivasan , Clement Pellouin , Astrid Lamberts