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We present a novel machine learning framework tailored to detect massive black hole binaries observed by spaceborne gravitational wave detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and predict their future merger times. The…

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We use the ASTRID cosmological simulation to forecast massive black hole (MBH) mergers detectable by Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) down to $z=0$. ASTRID directly models MBH dynamical friction, allowing a realistic tracking of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Bonny Y. Wang , Yihao Zhou , William Chen , Nianyi Chen , Tiziana Di Matteo , Rupert Croft , Simeon Bird , Yueying Ni

Binary systems of massive black holes will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) throughout the entire Universe. Observations of gravitational waves from this class of sources will have important repercussions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alberto Vecchio

The space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors will open a new mass and redshift regime, allowing us to observe massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) throughout the Universe. A subset of these systems is expected to produce electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Xue-Ting Zhang , Jonathan Gair , Chris Messenger , Natalia Korsakova , Yi-Ming Hu , Hong-Yu Chen

Soon after the observation of the first black hole binary (BHB) by advanced LIGO (aLIGO), GW150914, it was realised that such a massive system would have been observable in the milli-Hz (mHz) band few years prior to coalescence. Operating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Alberto Sesana

Coalescing massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are one of primary sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observations. The mergers of these binaries are expected to give rise to detectable electromagnetic (EM) emissions with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Wen-Hong Ruan , Zong-Kuan Guo

Disentangling the rich astrophysical structure of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from its cosmological component is essential for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to access the physics of the early Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Mesut Çalışkan , Neha Anil Kumar , Marc Kamionkowski , Sihao Cheng

Gravitational wave (GW) detections of binary black holes (BBHs) have shown evidence for a dearth of component black holes with masses above $\sim50M_\odot$. This is consistent with expectations of a mass gap due to the existence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-16 Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz

Coalescence of binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) would constitute the strongest sources of gravitational waves to be observed by LISA. While the formation of binary SBHs during galaxy mergers is almost inevitable, coalescence requires…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David Merritt , Milos Milosavljevic

Current expectations on the signal to noise ratios and masses of supermassive black holes which the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can observe are based on using in matched filtering only the dominant harmonic of the inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Arun , Bala R. Iyer , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Siddhartha Sinha

Hierarchical mergers in a dense environment are one of the primary formation channels of intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) binary system. We expect that the resulting massive binary system will exhibit mass asymmetry. The emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-05 Kritti Sharma , Koustav Chandra , Archana Pai

We estimated the sensitivity of the upcoming advanced, ground-based gravitational-wave observatories (the upgraded LIGO and Virgo and the KAGRA interferometers) to coalescing intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). We added waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-17 G. Mazzolo , F. Salemi , M. Drago , V. Necula , C. Pankow , G. A. Prodi , V. Re , V. Tiwari , G. Vedovato , I. Yakushin , S. Klimenko

Observation of gravitational waves from inspiralling binary black holes has offered a unique opportunity to study the physical parameters of the component black holes. To infer these parameters, Bayesian methods are employed in conjunction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Koustav Chandra , Archana Pai , Samson H. W. Leong , Juan Calderón Bustillo

We study the impact of gas accretion on the orbital evolution of black-hole binaries initially at large separation in the band of the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We focus on two sources: (i)~stellar-origin black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-15 Andrea Caputo , Laura Sberna , Alexandre Toubiana , Stanislav Babak , Enrico Barausse , Sylvain Marsat , Paolo Pani

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHs) are a fascinating byproduct of galaxy mergers in the hierarchical universe. In the last stage of their orbital evolution, gravitational wave radiation drives the binary inspiral and produces the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-28 Ning Jiang , Huan Yang , Tinggui Wang , Jiazheng Zhu , Zhenwei Lyu , Liming Dou , Yibo Wang , Jianguo Wang , Zhen Pan , Hui Liu , Xinwen Shu , Zhenya Zheng

LISA will extend the search for gravitational waves (GWs) at $0.1\,{-}\,100$ mHz where loud signals from coalescing binary black holes of $ 10^4 \,{-}\,10^7\,\rm M_{\odot}$ are expected. Depending on their mass and luminosity distance, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Gaia Lops , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Monica Colpi , Silvia Bonoli , Alberto Sesana , Alberto Mangiagli

With one exception, previous analyses of the measurement accuracy of gravitational wave experiments for comparable-mass binary systems have neglected either spin-precession effects or subdominant harmonics and amplitude modulations. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer , Mauro Sereno

Detecting the coalescences of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) is one of the primary targets for space-based gravitational wave observatories such as LISA, Taiji, and Tianqin. The fast and accurate parameter estimation of merging MBHBs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-06 Bo Liang , Minghui Du , He Wang , Yuxiang Xu , Chang Liu , Xiaotong Wei , Peng Xu , Li-e Qiang , Ziren Luo

This paper presents a novel coherent multiband analysis framework for characterizing stellar- and intermediate-mass binary black holes using LISA and next-generation ground-based detectors (ET and CE), leveraging the latest developments in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Shichao Wu , Alexander H. Nitz , Ian Harry , Stanislav Babak , Michael J. Williams , Collin Capano , Connor Weaving

We revisit the predictions for the merger rate of massive black hole binaries detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and their background signal for pulsar-timing arrays. We focus on the effect of the delays between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-15 Enrico Barausse , Irina Dvorkin , Michael Tremmel , Marta Volonteri , Matteo Bonetti