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We consider the observation of stellar-mass black holes binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Preliminary results based on Fisher information matrix analyses have suggested that gravitational waves from those sources…

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Observations of the inspiral of massive binary black holes (BBH) in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and stellar mass binary black holes in the European Gravitational-Wave Observatory (EGO) offer an unique opportunity to test…

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The nonlinear aspect of gravitational wave generation that produces power at harmonics of the orbital frequency, above the fundamental quadrupole frequency, is examined to see what information about the source is contained in these higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald W. Hellings , Thomas A. Moore

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA) around the world are using the incredible consistency of millisecond pulsars to measure low frequency gravitational waves from (super)Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries. We use comprehensive MBH merger models based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Luke Zoltan Kelley , Laura Blecha , Lars Hernquist , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

Gravitational-wave observations of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) offer the opportunity to probe the environments of active galactic nuclei (AGN) through the torques that accretion disks induce on the binary. Within a Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-15 Lorenzo Speri , Andrea Antonelli , Laura Sberna , Stanislav Babak , Enrico Barausse , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael L. Katz

Astrophysical formation channels of stellar-mass binary black holes (sBBHs) can induce significant orbital eccentricities in their early inspiral. We analyze the implications on the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Ran Chen , Rohit S. Chandramouli , Federico Pozzoli , Riccardo Buscicchio , Enrico Barausse

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) take place when a stellar-mass black hole (BH) merges with a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The gravitational wave emission from such an event is expected to be detectable by the future Laser…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Smadar Naoz , Zoltan Haiman

With the anticipated launch of space-based gravitational wave detectors, including LISA, TaiJi, TianQin, and DECIGO, expected around 2030, the detection of gravitational waves generated by intermediate-mass black hole binaries (IMBBHs)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

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

The early inspiral from stellar-mass binary black holes (sBBHs) can emit milli-Hertz gravitational wave signals, making them detectable sources for space-borne gravitational wave missions like TianQin. However, the traditional matched…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Xue-Ting Zhang , Natalia Korsakova , Man Leong Chan , Chris Messenger , Yi-Ming Hu

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational-wave (GW) observatory will be limited in its ability to detect mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) in the stellar-mass range. A future ground-based detector network, meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Kaze W. K. Wong , Ely D. Kovetz , Curt Cutler , Emanuele Berti

Atom interferometry detectors like AION, ZAIGA, and AEDGE will be able to detect gravitational waves (GWs) at dHz covering the band between large space-based laser interferometers LISA/TianQin/Taiji and ground-based facilities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-16 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

Superradiance can lead to the formation of a black hole (BH) condensate system. We thoroughly investigate the accretion effect on the evolution of this system, and the gravitational wave signals it emits in the presence of multiple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Yin-Da Guo , Shou-Shan Bao , Tianjun Li , Hong Zhang

Response of an interferometer becomes complicated for gravitational wave shorter than the arm-length of the detector, as nature of wave appears strongly. We have studied how parameter estimation for merging massive black hole binaries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Naoki Seto

The observed binary black hole (BBH) mergers indicate a large Galactic progenitor population continuously evolving from large orbital separations and low gravitational wave (GW) frequencies to the final merger phase. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-19 Xiao Fang , Todd A. Thompson , Christopher M. Hirata

On the basis of GWTC-3, we discuss the detection prospect of extra-Galactic binary black holes (BBHs) by space gravitational-wave interferometers. In particular, targeting BBHs with component masses around 5-100$M_\odot$, we directly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Naoki Seto , Koutarou Kyutoku

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect a variety of gravitational-wave events, including mergers of massive black hole binaries, stellar-mass black hole inspirals, and extreme mass-ratio inspirals. LISA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Aasim Jan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Lange

It was shown that the dark matter(DM) minihalo around an intermediate mass black hole(IMBH) can be redistributed into a cusp, called the DM minispike. We consider an intermediate-mass-ratio inspiral consisting of an IMBH harbored in a DM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-16 Xiao-Jun Yue , Wen-Biao Han

We study the effects of a thin gaseous accretion disk on the inspiral of a stellar--mass black hole into a supermassive black hole. We construct a phenomenological angular momentum transport equation that reproduces known disk effects. Disk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicolás Yunes , Bence Kocsis , Abraham Loeb , Zoltán Haiman

The gravitational waves (GW) emitted during the coalescence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the mass range 10^4-10^7 M_sun will be detectable out to high redshifts with LISA. We calculate the size and orientation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Kocsis , Z. Frei , Z. Haiman , K. Menou