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Extremely large mass-ratio inspirals (XMRIs), formed by brown dwarfs inspiraling into a massive black hole, emit gravitational waves (GWs) that fall within the detection band of future space-borne detectors such as LISA, TianQin, and Taiji.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Hui-Min Fan , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Verónica Vázquez-Aceves , Tian-Xiao Wang , Tai-Fu Feng

Extreme mass ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass object merges with a supermassive black hole, are prime sources for space-based gravitational wave detectors because they will facilitate tests of strong gravity and probe the spacetime…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-22 Nicolas Yunes , M. Coleman Miller , Jonathan Thornburg

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 propose a novel source of gravitational wave emission: the inspirals of compact fragments inside primordial supermassive stars (SMSs). Such systems are thought to be an essential channel in the as-yet little understood formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Yael Raveh , Yonadav Barry Ginat , Hagai B. Perets , Tyrone E. Woods

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are important targets for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Sapce Antenna (LISA). Recent works suggest that EMRI may reside in a population of newly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Xian Chen , Yu Qiu , Shuo Li , F. K. Liu

Space-based gravitational wave detectors like TianQin or LISA could observe extreme-mass-ratio-inspirals (EMRIs) at millihertz frequencies. The accurate identification of these EMRI signals from the data plays a crucial role in enabling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-05 Chang-Qing Ye , Hui-Min Fan , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

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

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

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

We present a theoretical study of the gravitational wave (GW) driven inspirals of accreting black hole binaries with mass $M = 10^7 M_\odot$ and mass ratios between $10^{-3}$ and $10^{-1}$. Our results are based on analytic estimates, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Madeline Clyburn , Jonathan Zrake

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen , Jonathan Gair

We discuss the energy loss due to gravitational radiation of binaries composed of exotic objects whose horizon boundary conditions are replaced with reflective ones. Our focus is on the extreme mass-ratio inspirals, in which the central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-06 Norichika Sago , Takahiro Tanaka

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals consist of binary systems of compact objects, with orders of magnitude differences in their masses, in the regime where the dynamics are driven by gravitational wave emission. The unique nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Studies regarding extra-dimensions have been of great interest in modern theoretical physics, including their observational consequences from future gravitational wave (GW) observatories. In this direction, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Shailesh Kumar , Tieguang Zi , Arpan Bhattacharyya

A compact binary in an eccentric orbit radiates gravitational waves (GWs) at all integer harmonics of its orbital frequency. In this study, we investigate the effect of orbital eccentricity on the expected gravitational background radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Motohiro Enoki , Masahiro Nagashima

Several scenarios were suggested for the origins of gravitational-wave (GW) sources from mergers of stellar binary black holes (BBHs). Here we propose a novel origin through catalyzed formation of GW-sources from ultra-wide binaries in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Erez Michaely , Hagai B. Perets

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

Scattering events around the center of massive galaxies will occasionally toss a stellar-mass compact object into an orbit around the massive black hole at the center, beginning an extreme mass ratio inspiral. The early stages of such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Daniel J Oliver , Aaron D Johnson , Joel Berrier , Kostas Glampedakis , Daniel Kennefick

We compute gravitational waves from inspiraling stellar-mass compact objects on the equatorial plane of a massive spinning black hole (BH). Our inspiral orbits are computed by taking into account the adiabatic change of orbital parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-10 Ryuichi Fujita , Masaru Shibata

We study gravitational waves from a stellar-mass binary orbiting a spinning supermassive black hole, a system referred to as a binary extreme mass ratio inspiral (b-EMRI). We use Dixon's formalism to describe the stellar-mass binary as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 João S. Santos , Vitor Cardoso , José Natário , Maarten van de Meent
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