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The dynamical evolution of binaries of intermediate-massive black holes (IMBHs, massive black holes with a mass ranging between $10^2$ and $10^4 M_{\odot}$) in stellar clusters has recently received an increasing amount of attention. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Christoph Eichhorn , Edward K. Porter , Rainer Spurzem

Stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) in galactic nuclei are gravitationally perturbed by the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) of the host galaxy, potentially inducing strong eccentricity oscillations through the eccentric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-21 Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Smadar Naoz , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Bao-Minh Hoang , Evgeni Grishin

We assess the possibility of detecting both eccentricity and gas effects (migration and accretion) in the gravitational wave (GW) signal from LISA massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at redshift $z=1$. Gas induces a phase correction to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-16 Mudit Garg , Andrea Derdzinski , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Jonathan Gair , Lucio Mayer

We study the effect of torques on circular inspirals of intermediate-mass black hole binaries (IMBHBs) embedded in gas discs, wherein both BH masses are in the range $10^2$-$10^5~\rm{M}_\odot$, up to redshift $z = 10$. We focus on how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-10 Mudit Garg , Andrea Derdzinski , Lorenz Zwick , Pedro R. Capelo , Lucio Mayer

The population of stellar origin black hole binaries (SOBHBs) detected by existing ground-based gravitational wave detectors is an exciting target for the future space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). LISA is sensitive to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Matthew C. Digman , Neil J. Cornish

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 calculate the gravitational wave signal from the growth of 10 million solar mass supermassive black holes (SMBH) from the remnants of Population III stars. The assembly of these lower mass black holes is particularly important because…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Miroslav Micic , Steinn Sigurdsson , Louis Rubbo

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), due for launch in the mid 2030s, is expected to observe gravitational waves (GW)s from merging massive black hole binaries (MBHB)s. These signals can last from days to months, depending on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Connor R. Weaving , Laura K. Nuttall , Ian W. Harry , Shichao Wu , Alexander Nitz

Pulsar timing arrays have recently found evidence for nanohertz gravitational waves that are consistent with being produced by a cosmological population of binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs). However, the amplitude of this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-09 Julia M. Comerford , Joseph Simon

If binary intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; with masses between 100 and $10^4 \Msun$) form in dense stellar clusters, their inspiral will be detectable with the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) out to several Gpc. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Cole Miller , Marc Freitag

According to General Relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) should travel at the speed of light $c$. However, some theories beyond GR predict deviations of the velocity of GWs $c_{\rm gw}$ from $c$, and some of those expect vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Tian-Yong Cao , Shu-Xu Yi

The coalescence of a compact object with a $10^{4}-10^{7} {\rm M_\odot}$ supermassive black hole (SMBH) produces mHz gravitational waves (GWs) detectable by the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). If such an inspiral occurs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-14 A. Derdzinski , D. D'Orazio , P. Duffell , Z. Haiman , A. MacFadyen

The direct measurement of gravitational waves is a powerful tool for surveying the population of black holes across the universe. The first gravitational wave catalog from LIGO has detected black holes as heavy as $\sim50~M_\odot$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-09 Karan Jani , Deirdre Shoemaker , Curt Cutler

We investigate the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to measure the center of mass acceleration of stellar-origin black hole binaries emitting gravitational waves. Our analysis is based on the idea that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-05 Nicola Tamanini , Antoine Klein , Camille Bonvin , Enrico Barausse , Chiara Caprini

We have investigated, both analytically and numerically, accreting supermassive black hole binaries as they inspiral due to gravitational radiation to elucidate the decoupling of binaries from their disks and inform future multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Alexander J. Dittmann , Geoffrey Ryan , M. Coleman Miller

Beyond LISA, proposed space-based gravitational wave (GW) missions aim to explore the sub-millihertz to microhertz frequency band, with one key objective being the detection of massive binary black hole (MBBH) mergers across cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Renjie Wang , Yumeng Xu , Gang Wang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai

Gas accretion of embedded stellar-mass black holes\,(sBHs) or stars in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei\,(AGNs) will modify the mass distribution of these sBHs and stars, which will also affect the migration of the sBHs/stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Mengye Wang , Yiqiu Ma , Qingwen Wu

In the frequency band of Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), extensive research has been conducted on the impact of foreground confusion noise generated by galactic binaries within the Milky Way galaxy. Additionally, the recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Fan Huang , Yan-Chen Bi , Zhoujian Cao , Qing-Guo Huang

Observation of gravitational waves (GWs) in two different frequency bands is referred to as multiband GW astronomy. With the planned Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) operating in the $10^{-4}-0.1$ Hz range, and third generation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Sayantani Datta , Anuradha Gupta , Shilpa Kastha , K. G. Arun , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) will provide long duration inspiral signals with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, ideal for testing general relativity (GR) in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Manuel Piarulli , Sylvain Marsat , Elise M. Sänger , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Nicola Tamanini
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