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Gravitational radiation reaction, has been one of the fundamental issues in general relativity. Over a span of decades, this process has been analyzed in the adiabatic limit, in order to comprehend how it drives extreme-mass-ratio binaries,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Areti Eleni , Kyriakos Destounis , Theocharis A. Apostolatos , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We investigate extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) around a rotating Hayward black hole to assess the detectability of signatures arising from quantum gravity.The quantum parameter $\alpha_0$, which encodes deviations from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Dan Zhang , Chao Zhang , Qiyuan Pan , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu

Extreme mass ratio in-spirals (EMRIs) are candidate events for gravitational wave detection in the millihertz range (by detectors like LISA and eLISA). These events involve a stellar-mass black hole, or a similar compact object, descending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Jonathan Gair

We investigate gravitational waveforms from compact binary systems in Einstein-scalar-Maxwell (ESM) theories, where a scalar field $\phi$ couples to a $U(1)$ gauge field $A_\mu$ through a field-dependent function $\mu(\phi)$. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

Understanding the orbits of spinning bodies in curved spacetime is important for modeling binary black hole systems with small mass ratios. At zeroth order in mass ratio, the smaller body moves on a geodesic. Post-geodesic effects are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-05 Lisa V. Drummond , Philip Lynch , Alexandra G. Hanselman , Devin R. Becker , Scott A. Hughes

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are binary systems where a compact object slowly inspirals into its much larger compact partner. Since we anticipate such systems to exist within and be dynamically influenced by the galactic center…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Makana Silva , Harrison G. Blake-Goszyk , Christopher M. Hirata

An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

The inspiral of a stellar mass ($1 - 100\,M_\odot$) compact body into a massive ($10^5 - 10^7\,M_\odot$) black hole has been a focus of much effort, both for the promise of such systems as astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 Eanna E. Flanagan , Scott A. Hughes , Uchupol Ruangsri

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are the most potential sources detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To analyze the influence of higher harmonics on parameter estimation for EMRIs efficiently, we use the waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Chao Zhang , Ning Dai , Dicong Liang

Building upon several recent advances in the development of effective-one-body models for spin-aligned eccentric binaries with individual masses $(m_1,m_2)$ we introduce a new EOB waveform model that aims at describing inspiralling binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Alessandro Nagar , Simone Albanesi

The largest part of any gravitational-wave inspiral of a compact binary can be understood as a slow, adiabatic drift between the trajectories of a certain referential conservative system. In many contexts, the phase space of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-23 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Vojtěch Witzany

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

We present an algorithm for calculating the metric perturbations and gravitational self-force for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) with eccentric orbits. The massive black hole is taken to be Schwarzschild and metric perturbations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Thomas Osburn , Erik Forseth , Charles Evans , Seth Hopper

We present results from calculations of the orbital evolution in eccentric binaries of nonrotating black holes with extreme mass-ratios. Our inspiral model is based on the method of osculating geodesics, and is the first to incorporate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-11 Niels Warburton , Sarp Akcay , Leor Barack , Jonathan R. Gair , Norichika Sago

We present a first complete implementation of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that incorporates aligned spins (on both the primary and the secondary) as well as orbital eccentricity. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Angelica Albertini , Rossella Gamba , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are promising target sources for space-based interferometers such as LISA, Taiji, and Tianqin. Depending on the astrophysical environment, such as close perturbers or an accretion disk, EMRI orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Priti Gupta , Takafumi Kakehi , Takahiro Tanaka

The swirling-Kerr black hole is a novel solution of vacuum general relativity and has an extra swirling parameter characterizing the rotation of spacetime background. We have studied the gravitational waves generated by extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Yuhang Gu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

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

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals~(EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Inteferometric Space Antenna~(LISA) are unique probes of astrophysics and fundamental physics. Parameter estimation for these sources is challenging, especially because the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Richard Brito , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

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