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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, is designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It is expected that tens of millions of Galactic binaries will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cedric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

We compute the expected low-frequency gravitational wave signal from coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries at the center of galaxies. We follow the merging history of halos and associated holes via cosmological Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sesana , F. Haardt , P. Madau , M. Volonteri

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

The observation of massive black hole binary systems is one of the main science objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The instrument's design requirements have recently been revised: they set a requirement at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Geraint Pratten , Antoine Klein , Christopher J. Moore , Hannah Middleton , Nathan Steinle , Patricia Schmidt , Alberto Vecchio

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black-hole (BBH) coalescences are expected to address outstanding questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. Realizing the full discovery potential of upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Arnab Dhani , Sebastian H. Völkel , Alessandra Buonanno , Hector Estelles , Jonathan Gair , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lorenzo Pompili , Alexandre Toubiana

The next generation of ground-based gravitational wave detectors may detect a few mergers of comparable-mass M\simeq 100-1000 Msun ("intermediate-mass'', or IMBH) spinning black holes. Black hole spin is known to have a significant impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Richard O'Shaughnessy , Birjoo Vaishnav , James Healy , Deirdre Shoemaker

Detecting and coherently characterizing thousands of gravitational-wave signals is a core data-analysis challenge for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Transient artifacts, or "glitches", with disparate morphologies are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Alice Spadaro , Riccardo Buscicchio , Daniele Vetrugno , Antoine Klein , Davide Gerosa , Stefano Vitale , Rita Dolesi , William Joseph Weber , Monica Colpi

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to detect massive black hole mergers throughout the visible Universe. These observations will provide unique information about black hole formation and growth, and the role black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Neil J. Cornish , Kevin Shuman

The space-based laser interferometers, LISA, Taiji and TianQin, are targeting to observe milliHz gravitational waves (GWs) in the 2030s. The joint observations from multiple space-based detectors yield significant advantages. In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Bin Hu , Chang Liu , Youjun Lu , Wei-Tou Ni , Wen-Hong Ruan , Naoki Seto , Gang Wang , Yue-Liang Wu

Recently it was shown that the inclusion of higher signal harmonics in the inspiral signals of binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) leads to dramatic improvements in parameter estimation with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 K G Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra , Chris Van Den Broeck , B R Iyer , B S Sathyaprakash , Siddhartha Sinha

We study the sensitivity required for a future space-based detector to search for beyond general relativity effect in gravitational wave detection. To do this, we use the current design of TianQin, LISA, and $\mu$Ares as starting points,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Tangchao Zhan , Changfu Shi , Shuo Sun , Jianwei Mei

The formation, merging, and accretion history of massive black holes along the hierarchical build--up of cosmic structures leaves a unique imprint on the background of gravitational waves at mHz frequencies. We study here, by means of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Sesana , Marta Volonteri , Francesco Haardt

The upcoming LISA mission will be able to detect gravitational waves from galactic and extragalactic compact binaries. Here, we report on LISA's capability to probe dark matter around these binaries if the latter constitute black holes. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sohan Ghodla

LISA data analysis represents one of the most challenging tasks ahead for the future of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. Characterizing the instrument's noise properties while fitting for all the other detectable sources is a key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Alessandro Santini , Martina Muratore , Jonathan Gair , Olaf Hartwig

Gravitational waves (GWs) produced by sound waves in the primordial plasma during a strong first-order phase transition in the early Universe are going to be a main target of the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-17 Kai Schmitz

The era of gravitational-wave astronomy has started with the discovery of the binary black hole coalescences (BBH) GW150914 and GW151226 by the LIGO instruments. These systems allowed for the first direct measurement of masses and spins of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Salvatore Vitale , Ryan Lynch , Vivien Raymond , Riccardo Sturani , John Veitch , Philp Graff

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open complementary observational windows on massive black-hole binaries (MBHBs), i.e., with masses in the range $\sim 10^6 - 10^{10}\,$ M$_{\odot}$. While…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will provide us with a unique opportunity to observe the early inspiral phase of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) in the mass range of $10^5-10^6\,M_{\odot}$, that lasts for several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-09 Sayantani Datta

To date, close to fifty presumed black hole binary mergers were observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. The analyses have been done with an assumption that these objects are black holes by limiting the spin prior to the Kerr bound.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-04 Nami Uchikata , Tatsuya Narikawa

The gravitational wave signal from a compact object spiralling toward a massive black hole (MBH) is thought to be one of the most difficult sources to detect in the LISA data stream. Due to the large parameter space of possible signals and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-25 Stanislav Babak , Jonathan R. Gair , Edward K. Porter
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