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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the mHz frequency window of the gravitational wave (GW) landscape. Among all the new GW sources expected to emit in this frequency band, extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) constitute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Stanislav Babak , David Izquierdo-Villalba

Mini-Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (mini-EMRIs), comprising a sub-solar exotic compact object (such as a primordial black hole or boson star) orbiting a much heavier stellar-origin or exotic compact object, represent key targets for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Zi-Xuan Wang , Xing-Yu Chen , Ju Chen , Gong Cheng , Huai-Ke Guo , Andrew L. Miller

We analyze the parameter estimation accuracy that can be achieved for the mass and spin of SgrA$^\ast$, the SMBH in our Galactic Center, by detecting multiple extremely large mass-ratio inspirals (XMRIs). XMRIs are formed by brown dwarfs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-10 Verónica Vázquez-Aceves , Yiren Lin , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

In the Galaxy, extremely large mass-ratio inspirals(X-MRIs) composed of brown dwarfs and the massive black hole at the Galactic Center are expected to be promising gravitational wave sources for space-borne detectors. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Shu-Cheng Yang , Huijiao Luo , Yuan-Hao Zhang , Chen Zhang

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources of gravitational waves for space-based detectors such as LISA. However, their detection remains a major data analysis challenge due to the signals' complexity and length. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Speri , Rodrigo Tenorio , Christian Chapman-Bird , Davide Gerosa

One of the primary goals of space-borne gravitational wave detectors is to detect and analyze extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This endeavor presents a significant challenge due to the complex and lengthy EMRI signals, further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-01 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Yi-Yang Guo , He Wang , Minghui Du

The exploration of dark sector interactions via gravitational waves (GWs) from binary inspirals has been a subject of recent interest. We study dark forces using extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), pointing out two issues of interest.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Badal Bhalla , Kuver Sinha , Tao Xu

The future space-based gravitational wave observatory, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, is expected to observe between 1-1000s extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) per year. Due to the simultaneous presence of other gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Sviatoslav Khukhlaev , Stanislav Babak

Scattering events around the center of massive galaxies will occasionally toss a stellar-mass compact object into an orbit around the massive black hole at the center, beginning an extreme mass ratio inspiral. The early stages of such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Daniel J Oliver , Aaron D Johnson , Joel Berrier , Kostas Glampedakis , Daniel Kennefick

Compact remnants on orbits with peri-apses close to the Schwarzschild radius of a massive black hole (MBH) lose orbital energy by emitting gravitational waves (GWs) and spiral in. Scattering with other stars allows successful inspiral of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Clovis Hopman

Estimating the spin of ${\rm SgrA^\ast}$ is one of the current challenges we face in understanding the center of our Galaxy. In the present work, we show that detecting the gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by a brown dwarf inspiraling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Veronica Vazquez-Aceves , Yiren Lin , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

The gravitational wave signal from a compact object spiralling toward a massive black hole (MBH) is thought to be one of the most difficult sources to detect in the LISA data stream. Due to the large parameter space of possible signals and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-25 Stanislav Babak , Jonathan R. Gair , Edward K. Porter

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), as a core target for future space-based gravitational wave detection, offer crucial observational grounds for testing strong-field gravitational theories and classifying black holes through their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Xiuqin He , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

[abridged] The detection of gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio (EMRI) binaries, comprising a stellar-mass compact object orbiting around a massive black hole, is one of the main targets for low-frequency gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-09 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

The gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), a key target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will be affected in the presence of dark matter (DM) halos. In this paper we explore whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Sara Gliorio , Emanuele Berti , Andrea Maselli , Nicholas Speeney

Extreme mass ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass object merges with a supermassive black hole, are prime sources for space-based gravitational wave detectors because they will facilitate tests of strong gravity and probe the spacetime…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-22 Nicolas Yunes , M. Coleman Miller , Jonathan Thornburg

Wet extreme mass-ratio inspirals (wet EMRIs), which arise from stellar-mass black holes inspiral into supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the gas-rich environments of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), are primary sources of gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhenwei Lyu , Zhen Pan , Junjie Mao , Ning Jiang , Huan Yang

Extreme-mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) are among the main targets for upcoming low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In the classical scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Karamveer Kaur , Hagai Perets

When a stellar-mass compact object is captured by a supermassive black hole located in a galactic centre, the system losses energy and angular momentum by the emission of gravitational waves. Subsequently, the stellar compact object evolves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-28 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are important sources for space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) and TianQin. Previous EMRI rate studies have focused on the "loss cone" scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-16 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang