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Even if globally neutral, in various scenarios compact objects can have a nonvanishing dipole moment. Examples include neutron stars with magnetic dipoles, black-hole microstates in the string-theory fuzzball scenario, and classical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Jacopo Lestingi , Enrico Cannizzaro , Paolo Pani

We study eccentric orbits of the Schwarzschild spacetime for extreme mass ratio system (EMRI) in modified gravity theories with additional scalar fields. Due to the additional energy and angular momentum carried away by the scalar field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Bin Wang

Suppose a small compact object (black hole or neutron star) of mass $m$ orbits a large black hole of mass $M \gg m$. This system emits gravitational waves (GWs) that have a radiation-reaction effect on the particle's motion. EMRIs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Jonathan Thornburg

In this work we analyze some judiciously chosen solutions of Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair (KBHsSH) of special interest for Gravitational Wave (GW) events originated from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs). Because of the off-center…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-21 Lucas G. Collodel , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

The bumblebee gravity model, with a vector field nonminimally coupled to gravity, is a natural extension of the Einstein-Maxwell theory. In this theory, a black hole can carry a vector hair, making the metric deviate from the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-24 Dicong Liang , Rui Xu , Zhan-Feng Mai , Lijing Shao

A stellar-mass compact object spiraling into a supermassive black hole, an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI), is one of the targets of future gravitational-wave detectors and it offers a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-07 Nicolas Yunes , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso

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

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna are unique probes of the nature of supermassive compact objects. We compute the gravitational-wave signal emitted by a stellar-mass compact object in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Elisa Maggio , Maarten van de Meent , Paolo Pani

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

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

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), stellar-mass compact objects (SCOs) inspiralling into a massive black hole, are one of the main sources of gravitational waves expected for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To extract the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the main sources of gravitational waves expected in the low-frequency band, where space-based detectors like Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will operate. The large number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Pablo F. Muguruza , Carlos F. Sopuerta

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…

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

The gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), a key target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will be affected in the presence of dark matter (DM) halos. In this paper we explore whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Sara Gliorio , Emanuele Berti , Andrea Maselli , Nicholas Speeney

We analyze a rotating regular black hole spacetime with an asymptotically Minkowski core, focusing on extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRIs) where a stellar-mass object inspirals a supermassive black hole under consideration. Such spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 Shailesh Kumar , Tieguang Zi

The inspirals of compact objects into massive black holes are some of the most exciting of the potential sources of gravitational waves for the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Observations of such extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Jonathan R Gair

Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), the inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes, are predicted to be observed by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). A sufficiently large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Shashwat Singh , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird , Christopher P L Berry , John Veitch

We study extreme mass-ratio binary systems in which a stellar mass compact object spirals into a supermassive black hole surrounded by a scalar cloud. Scalar clouds can form through superradiant instabilities of massive scalar fields around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-27 Richard Brito , Shreya Shah

Gravitational waves emitted during intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) into supermassive black holes could represent a very interesting source for LISA. Similarly, IMRIs of stellar-mass compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilya Mandel , Jonathan R. Gair