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Space-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), provide a platform to probe new fundamental fields through extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a compact secondary object carrying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Tieguang Zi , Fu-Wen Shu

Future space-borne interferometers will be able to detect gravitational waves at $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-1}$ Hz. At this band extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) can be promising gravitational wave sources. In this paper, we investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-30 Shuo Xin , Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

In this work, we investigate detection rates and parameter estimation of strongly-lensed extreme mass-ratio inspirals (LEMRIs) in the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Our results indicate that LEMRIs constitute a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Martina Toscani , Ollie Burke , Chang Liu , Nour Bou Zamel , Nicola Tamanini , Federico Pozzoli

The width of a resonance in a nearly integrable system, i.e. in a non-integrable system where chaotic motion is still not prominent, can tell us how a perturbation parameter is driving the system away from integrability. Although the tool…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Ondřej Zelenka , Ondřej Kopáček , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

Gravitational wave (GW) emissions from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are promising sources for low-frequency GW-detectors. They result from a compact object, such as a stellar-mass black-hole (BH), captured by a supermassive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-23 Smadar Naoz , Sanaea C. Rose , Erez Michaely , Denyz Melchor , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Brenna Mockler , Jeremy D. Schnittman

An extreme-mass-ratio burst (EMRB) is a gravitational wave signal emitted when a compact object passes through periapsis on a highly eccentric orbit about a much more massive body, in our case a stellar mass object about the 4.31 \times…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-15 Christopher P. L. Berry , Jonathan R. Gair

This paper evaluates the potential for constraining the quantum scale parameter $\xi$ of regular black hole within the asymptotically safe gravity framework using gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Since $\xi$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

We estimate the accuracy in the measurement of the tidal Love number of a supermassive compact object through the detection of an extreme mass ratio inspiral~(EMRI) by the future LISA mission. A nonzero Love number would be a smoking gun…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

Captures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) by massive ($\sim 10^6 M_\odot$) black holes (MBHs) are potentially an important source for LISA, the proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. The orbits of the inspiraling COs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Leor Barack , Curt Cutler

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most powerful probes of strong-field gravity and of the environments surrounding supermassive compact objects. Motivated by the expected presence of dark matter near galactic centers, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Mubasher Jamil , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We show that the loudest extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) detected by the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA can be used as dark standard sirens, statistically matching their sky localisation region with mock galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-30 Danny Laghi

We produce the gravitational waveforms for the extreme mass ratio inspiral systems (EMRIs) of binary stars moving around central supermassive black hole (SBH), or called B-EMRIs. We calculate the external orbits of the binary stars via the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Kun Meng , Hongsheng Zhang , Xi-Long Fan , Yuan Yong , Fei Du

The measurement of multipole moments of astrophysical objects through gravitational wave (GW) observations provides a novel way to distinguish black holes from other astrophysical objects. This paper studies the gravitational wave radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Mostafizur Rahman , Arpan Bhattacharyya

To investigate the imprint on the gravitational-wave emission from extreme mass-ratio inspirals in non-pure Kerr spacetimes, we have studied the ``kludge'' waveforms generated in highly-accurate, numerically-generated spacetimes containing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Enrico Barausse , Luciano Rezzolla , David Petroff , Marcus Ansorg

An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

A small body orbiting around an accreting massive object and periodically crossing its accretion disk is a common configuration in astrophysics. In this work, we investigate the secular evolution of extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-26 Yuhe Zeng , Zhen Pan

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRI) are one of the most sensitive probes of black hole spacetimes with gravitational wave measurements. In this work, we systematically analyze the dynamics of an EMRI system near orbital resonances, assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang , Laura Bernard , Béatrice Bonga

Even if globally neutral, in various scenarios compact objects can have a nonvanishing dipole moment. Examples include neutron stars with magnetic dipoles, black-hole microstates in the string-theory fuzzball scenario, and classical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Jacopo Lestingi , Enrico Cannizzaro , Paolo Pani

The past year has seen numerous publications underlining the importance of a space mission to the ice giants in the upcoming decade. Proposed mission plans involve a $\sim$10 year cruise time to the ice giants. This cruise time can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Deniz Soyuer , Lorenz Zwick , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Prasenjit Saha

In its final year of inspiral, a stellar mass ($1 - 10 M_\odot$) body orbits a massive ($10^5 - 10^7 M_\odot$) compact object about $10^5$ times, spiralling from several Schwarzschild radii to the last stable orbit. These orbits are deep in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott A. Hughes