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Cold dark matter may form dense structures around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), significantly influencing their local environments. These dense regions are ideal sites for the formation of extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chen Feng , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

This work elaborates on a detailed analysis of the novel characteristics of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) within the framework of modified gravity (MOG). Our study begins by exploring the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-20 Xiongying Qiao , Zhong-Wu Xia , Qiyuan Pan , Hong Guo , Wei-Liang Qian , Jiliang Jing

We extend the work of Ryan on mapping the spacetime of the central object of an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) by using gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the system, which may be observed in future missions such as LISA. Whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-12 Sayak Datta , Sukanta Bose

Stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a stationary coalescing population of binary neutron stars in the Galaxy is calculated. This background is found to constitute a confusion limit within the LISA frequency band up to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. B. Ignatiev , A. G. Kuranov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

Close encounters between two initially unbound objects can result in a binary system if enough energy is released as gravitational waves (GWs). We address the scenario in which such encounters occur in merging elliptical galaxies. There is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Verónica Vázquez-Aceves , Pau Amaro Seoane , Dana Kuvatova , Maxim Makukov , Chingis Omarov , Denis Yurin

The advent of gravitational wave astronomy has seen a huge influx of new predictions for potential discoveries of beyond the Standard Model fields. The coupling of all fundamental fields to gravity, together with its dominance on large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Shaun David Brocus Fell , Lavinia Heisenberg , Doğa Veske

We calculate stochastic gravitational wave background produced by extragalactic merging binary white dwarfs at the LISA frequencies $10^{-3}-10^{-2}$ Hz with account of a strong evolution of global star formation rate in the Universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Kosenko , K. A. Postnov

One prominent model for quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) is that they originate from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) involving stellar-mass objects orbiting around massive black holes and colliding with their accretion disks. We compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Leif Lui , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Rudrani Kar Chowdhury , Lixin Dai

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most interesting gravitational wave (GW) sources for space-borne GW detectors. However, successful GW data analysis remains challenging due to many issues, ranging from the difficulty of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Xue-Ting Zhang , Chris Messenger , Natalia Korsakova , Man Leong Chan , Yi-Ming Hu , Jing-dong Zhang

The advent of gravitational wave (GW) and multi-messenger astronomy has stimulated the research on the formation mechanisms of binary black holes (BBHs) observed by LIGO/Virgo. In literature, the progenitors of these BBHs could be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Fan Huang , Qing-Guo Huang

Data analysis for the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be complicated by the huge number of sources in the LISA band. Throughout much of the band, galactic white dwarf binaries (GWDBs) are sufficiently dense in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Etienne Racine , Curt Cutler

A compact object with a mass $\mathcal{O}(1 \sim 1000) M_{\odot}$, such as a black hole of stellar or primordial origin or a neutron star, and a much lighter exotic compact object with a subsolar mass could form a non-standard mini extreme…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-24 Huai-Ke Guo , Andrew Miller

Intermediate-mass ratio inspirals (IMRIs) formed by stellar-mass compact objects orbiting intermediate-mass black holes will be detected by future gravitational wave (GW) observatories like TianQin, LISA, and AION. We study a set of 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Verónica Vázquez-Aceves , Tian-Xiao Wang

Gravitational waves provide a unique probe of the strong-field regime of gravity, offering access to physics beyond the classical black hole paradigm. We explore how space-based observations of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Pablo F. Muguruza , Carlos F. Sopuerta

This text will appear as Section II of Chapter 5 of the book "Black Holes in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy". As a stand alone text, it serves as a brief overview of astrophysics and gravitational wave radiation of extreme mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Andrea Derdzinski , Lorenz Zwick

An extreme mass ratio inspiral takes place when a compact stellar object is inspiraling into a supermassive black hole due to gravitational radiation reaction. Gravitational waves (GWs) from this system can be calculated using the Teukolsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Viktor Skoupý , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

The gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary black hole (BBH) with masses between 10^4 and 10^7 Msun can be detected with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) once their orbital frequency exceeds 10^-4 - 10^-5 Hz. The binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Zoltán Haiman

The future space-based gravitational wave observatories are expected to provide unprecedented opportunities to explore intricate characteristics of black hole binaries, particularly for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Tieguang Zi , Shailesh Kumar

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key targets for future space-based gravitational wave detectors, such as LISA. The scientific potential of these sources can only be fully realized with fast and accurate waveform models.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Hassan Khalvati , Alessandro Santini , Francisco Duque , Lorenzo Speri , Jonathan Gair , Huan Yang , Richard Brito

A plethora of gravitational wave stochastic backgrounds populate the sensitivity window of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. We show that LISA can detect the anisotropy of the background corresponding to the multipole moments of order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. Ungarelli , A. Vecchio