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Astrometric satellite Gaia is expected to observe non-interacting black hole (BH) binaries with luminous companions (LCs) (hereafter BH-LC binaries), a different population from BH X-ray binaries previously discovered. The detectability of…

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Dynamically assembled binary black holes are expected to retain measurable orbital eccentricity in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA band, but most parameter estimation analyses still assume quasi-circular inspirals. This raises a critical question: how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Tamal RoyChowdhury , V. Gayathri , Rossella Gamba , Shubhagata Bhaumik , Imre Bartos , Jolien Creighton

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

Despite their potential role as massive seeds for quasars, in dwarf galaxy feedback, and in tidal disruption events, the observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is scarce. LISA may observe stellar-mass black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Vladimir Strokov , Giacomo Fragione , Kaze W. K. Wong , Thomas Helfer , Emanuele Berti

The detection of a gravitational capture of a stellar-mass compact object by a massive black hole (MBH) will allow us to test gravity in the strong regime. These sources form via two-body relaxation, by exchanging energy and angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-03 Pau Amaro-Seoane

We propose a new method for determining total masses of low frequency eccentric binaries (such as, neutron star binaries with orbital frequency $f\gsim 10^{-3}$Hz) from their gravitational waves. In this method we use the frequency shift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Naoki Seto

Coalescing compact binaries have been pointed out as the most promising source of gravitational waves for kilometer-size interferometers such as LIGO. Gravitational wave signals are extracted from the noise in the detectors by matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Martel

We study the inspiral of double black holes, with masses in the LISA window of detectability, orbiting inside a massive circum-nuclear disc. Using high-resolution SPH simulations, we follow the black hole dynamics in the early phase when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Dotti , M. Colpi , F. Haardt

Astrophysical population simulations predict that a subset of dynamically formed binary black holes (BBHs) may possess eccentricity $\gtrsim 0.1$ at a gravitational wave (GW) frequency of $10 \,\text{Hz}$. Presently, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Sajad A. Bhat , Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , Chinmay Gandevikar , Chandra Kant Mishra , K. G. Arun

With the hundreds of merging binary black hole (BH) signals expected to be detected by LIGO/Virgo, LISA and other instruments in the next few years, the modeling of astrophysical channels that lead to the formation of compact-object…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Giacomo Fragione , Bence Kocsis

The advent of gravitational wave (GW) and multi-messenger astronomy has stimulated the research on the formation mechanisms of binary black holes (BBHs) observed by LIGO/Virgo. In literature, the progenitors of these BBHs could be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Fan Huang , Qing-Guo Huang

We consider LISA observations of in-spiral signals emitted by massive black hole binary systems in circular orbit and with negligible spins. We study the accuracy with which the source parameters can be extracted from the data stream. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Sintes , A. Vecchio

We show that gas disks around the components of an orbiting binary system (so-called minidisks) may be susceptible to a resonant instability which causes the minidisks to become significantly eccentric. Eccentricity is injected by, and also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-14 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltán Haiman

Building initial conditions for generic binary black-hole evolutions without initial spurious eccentricity remains a challenge for numerical-relativity simulations. This problem can be overcome by applying an eccentricity-removal procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Alessandra Buonanno , Lawrence E. Kidder , Abdul H. Mroué , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Andrea Taracchini

The gravitational-wave event GW231123_135430 is the heaviest binary black hole system observed by the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration to date, with the initial analysis indicating the individual black hole masses lie within or above the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Aasim Jan , Sophia Nicolella , Deirdre Shoemaker , Richard O'Shaughnessy

A populations of stellar mass black hole binaries may exist in globular clusters. The dynamics of globular cluster evolution imply that there may be at most one black hole binary is a globular cluster. The population of binaries are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. J. Benacquista

Massive black hole binaries are key targets for the space based gravitational wave interferometer LISA. Several studies have investigated how LISA observations could be used to constrain the parameters of these systems. Until recently, most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 Edward K. Porter , Neil J. Cornish

We discuss the usability of the gravitational wave detector LISA for studying the orientational distribution of compact white dwarf binaries in the Galactic bulge. We pay special attention to measuring the dipole pattern of the distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

Eccentricity of compact binaries can improve the parameter estimation of gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper, we first investigate the parameter estimation of eccentric GWs with decihertz observatory. We consider two scenarios for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-02 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee

Stellar-mass binary black holes (sBBHs) formed in globular clusters (GCs) are promising sources for multiband gravitational wave (GW) observations, particularly with low- and middle-frequency detectors. These sBBHs can retain detectable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Yuetong Zhao , Abbas Askar , Youjun Lu , Zhoujian Cao , Mirek Giersz , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Arkadiusz Hypki , Lucas Hellstrom , Sohaib Ali , Wei-Tou Ni