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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves from the population of merging massive black holes binaries (MBHBs) throughout the Universe. The LISA data stream will feature many superposed signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Senwen Deng , Stanislav Babak , Sylvain Marsat

We compute the accuracy at which a LISA-like space-based gravitational wave detector will be able to observe deviations from General Relativity in the low frequency approximation. To do so, we introduce six correction parameters that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Cédric Huwyler , Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer

The massive black holes we observe in galaxies today are the natural end-product of a complex evolutionary path, in which black holes seeded in proto-galaxies at high redshift grow through cosmic history via a sequence of mergers and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-23 Alberto Sesana , Jonathan R. Gair , Emanuele Berti , Marta Volonteri

The launch of space based gravitational wave (GW) detectors (e.g. Laser Interferometry Space Antenna; LISA) and current and upcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) will extend the GW window to low frequencies, opening new investigations into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Samuel Banks , Katharine Lee , Nazanin Azimi , Kendall Scarborough , Nikolai Stefanov , Indra Periwal , Colin DeGraf , Tiziana Di Matteo

This paper analyses the impact of various parameter changes on the estimation of parameters for massive black hole binary (MBHB) systems using a Bayesian inference technique. Several designed MBHB systems were chosen for comparison with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-24 Jie Gao , Yi-Ming Hu , En-Kun Li , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

We investigate the capability of LISA to measure the sky position of equal-mass, nonspinning black hole binaries, combining for the first time the entire inspiral-merger-ringdown signal, the effect of the LISA orbits, and the complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Sean T. McWilliams , Ryan N. Lang , John G. Baker , James Ira Thorpe

The observability of gravitational waves from supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes by the forecoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and the physics we can learn from the observations, will depend on two basic factors:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti

The evolving Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) will revolutionize our understanding of the formation and evolution of massive black holes along cosmic history by probing massive black hole binaries in the $10^3-10^7$ solar mass…

The space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to observe the gravitational-wave signals from systems comprised of a massive black hole and a stellar-mass compact object. These systems are known as extreme-mass-ratio…

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

The geosynchronous Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (gLISA) is a space-based gravitational wave (GW) mission that, for the past five years, has been under joint study at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, the National…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Massimo Tinto , Jose' Carlos N. de Araujo

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

The future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, which has successfully passed Mission Formulation phase, is in planning to be launched in 2030s. One of the ubiquitous LISA sources are the white-dwarf binaries (WDB) of which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Sweta Shah , Valeriya Korol , Thomas Kupfer

The Galaxy is suspected to contain hundreds of millions of binary white dwarf systems, a large fraction of which will have sufficiently small orbital period to emit gravitational radiation in band for space-based gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Tyson B. Littenberg

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Niklas Houba , Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Domenico Giardini

We study the angular resolution of the gravitational wave detector LISA and show that numerical relativity can drastically improve the accuracy of position location for coalescing Super Massive Black Hole (SMBH) binaries. For systems with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-15 Stanislav Babak , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Bernard Schutz

Observations of gravitational waves from massive binary black hole systems at cosmological distances can be used to search for a dependence of the speed of propagation of the waves on wavelength, and thereby to bound the mass of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 Adamantios Stavridis , Clifford M. Will

Stellar-mass black hole binaries (SBHBs), like those currently being detected with the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories LIGO and Virgo, are also an anticipated GW source for LISA. LISA will observe them during the early…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-07 Alexandre Toubiana , Sylvain Marsat , Stanislav Babak , John Baker , Tito Dal Canton

Future space-based laser interferometric detectors, such as LISA, will be able to detect gravitational waves (GWs) generated during the inspiral phase of stellar-mass binary black holes (SmBBHs). The detection and characterization of GWs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Yao Fu , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty

Newly formed black holes are expected to emit characteristic radiation in the form of quasi-normal modes, called ringdown waves, with discrete frequencies. LISA should be able to detect the ringdown waves emitted by oscillating supermassive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Clifford M. Will