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Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) will be important sources for future space-based gravitational-wave detectors. In recent work, tidal resonances in binary orbital evolution induced by the tidal field of nearby stars or black holes have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Priti Gupta , Béatrice Bonga , Alvin J. K. Chua , Takahiro Tanaka

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals are one of the most exciting and promising target sources for space-based interferometers (such as LISA, TianQin). The observation of their emitted gravitational waves will offer stringent tests on general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-22 Priti Gupta , Lorenzo Speri , Béatrice Bonga , Alvin J. K. Chua , Takahiro Tanaka

One of the important targets for the future space-based gravitational wave observatory LISA is extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where long and accurate waveform modeling is necessary for detection and characterization. Modeling EMRI…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 David Bronicki , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Leo C. Stein

The field of gravitational waves is rapidly progressing due to the noticeable advancements in the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors that has enabled the detection prospects of binary black hole mergers. Extreme mass ratio inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Supermassive black holes and their surrounding dense stellar environments nourish a variety of astrophysical phenomena. We focus on the distribution of stellar-mass black holes around the supermassive black hole and the consequent formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 Barak Rom , Itai Linial , Karamveer Kaur , Re'em Sari

The inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive ($\sim 10^{4}$-$10^{7} M_{\odot}$) black hole produces an intricate gravitational-wave signal. Due to the extreme-mass ratios involved, these systems complete $\sim…

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) provide unique probes of near-horizon dissipation through the tidal heating. We present a full Bayesian analysis of tidal heating in equatorial eccentric EMRIs by performing injection-recovery studies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Zhong-Wu Xia , Sheng Long , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing , Wei-Liang Qian

Dark matter (DM) search is one of the greatest challenges in physics. If DM consists of particles, it may form a spike around supermassive black holes (BH) prevalent in galaxy centers. This spike could be potentially observed by altering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Takafumi Kakehi , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takuya Takahashi , Takahiro Tanaka

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) occur when a compact object orbits a much larger one, like a solar-mass black hole around a supermassive black hole. The orbit has 3 frequencies which evolve through the inspiral. If the orbital radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-16 C. P. L. Berry , R. H. Cole , P. Cañizares , J. R. Gair

The forthcoming space-based gravitational-wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) should enable the detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs), in which a stellar-mass compact object gradually inspirals into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Michal Stratený , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Ondřej Zelenka

The extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI), defined as a stellar-mass compact object inspiraling into a supermassive black hole (SMBH), has been widely argued to be a low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) source. EMRIs providing accurate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Y. Y. Wang , F. Y. Wang , Y. C. Zou , Z. G. Dai

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

Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes, known as extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are one of the key targets for upcoming space-based gravitational-wave detectors. In this paper we take the first steps…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-01 Lukáš Polcar , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Vojtěch Witzany

Studies regarding extra-dimensions have been of great interest in modern theoretical physics, including their observational consequences from future gravitational wave (GW) observatories. In this direction, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Shailesh Kumar , Tieguang Zi , Arpan Bhattacharyya

One of the primary sources for the future space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, are the inspirals of small compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies. The gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Lorenzo Speri , Jonathan R. Gair

Tidal heating in a binary black hole system is driven by the absorption of energy and angular momentum by the black hole's horizon. Previous works have shown that this phenomenon becomes particularly significant during the late stages of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Sayak Datta , Richard Brito , Scott A. Hughes , Talya Klinger , Paolo Pani

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) occur when stellar-mass compact objects begin a gravitational wave (GW) driven inspiral into massive black holes. EMRI waveforms can precisely map the surrounding spacetime, making them a key target for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-27 Ismail Qunbar , Nicholas C. Stone

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are long-duration gravitational-wave sources in which a compact object gradually spirals into a massive black hole. Their formation is governed by the interplay between stochastic angular-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chen Feng , Yong Tang

We extend the work of Ryan on mapping the spacetime of the central object of an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) by using gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the system, which may be observed in future missions such as LISA. Whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-12 Sayak Datta , Sukanta Bose

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
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