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We analyse the post-inflationary contribution to the stochastic gravitational wave background due to a resonant feature in the scalar power spectrum, which is characterised by an oscillation in $\log(k)$, complementing our previous work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Lukas T. Witkowski

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) (capture and inspiral of a compact stellar mass object into a Massive Black Hole (MBH)) are among the most interesting objects for the gravitational wave astronomy. It is a very challenging task to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-11 Yan Wang , Yu Shang , Stanislav Babak

Gravitational waves constitute a powerful probe of the underlying theory of gravity. In extensions of general relativity, additional degrees of freedom, such as scalar fields in the gravitational sector, can modify their propagation through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Igor de O. C. Pedreira , Amara Ilyas , Ziwei Wang , Leila L. Graef , Yi-Fu Cai

We develop a waveform model to describe the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary systems with comparable and intermediate mass-ratios. This model incorporates first-order conservative self-force corrections to the energy and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-11 E. A. Huerta , Prayush Kumar , Jonathan R. Gair , Sean T. McWilliams

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are compact binary systems characterized by a mass-ratio $q=m/M$ in the range $~10^{-9}-10^{-4}$ and represent primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space…

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources for future space-based gravitational wave interferometers. Measurements of EMRI gravitational waves are expected to determine the characteristics of their sources with…

Accurate modeling of \gls{EMRIs} is essential for extracting reliable information from future space-based gravitational wave observatories. Fast waveform generation frameworks adopt an offline/online architecture, where expensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Hassan Khalvati , Philip Lynch , Ollie Burke , Lorenzo Speri , Maarten van de Meent , Zachary Nasipak

Within the framework of self-force theory, we compute the gravitational-wave energy flux through second order in the mass ratio for compact binaries in quasicircular orbits. Our results are consistent with post-Newtonian calculations in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-12 Niels Warburton , Adam Pound , Barry Wardell , Jeremy Miller , Leanne Durkan

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) in relativistic accretion discs are a key science target for the upcoming LISA mission. Existing models of disc-EMRI interactions typically rely on crude dynamical friction or Newtonian planetary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Conor Dyson , Daniel J. D'Orazio

We study gravitational-wave dephasing induced by an effective first-order phase transition in a Kerr extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI). The transition is modeled phenomenologically as a finite-width restructuring of the dissipative flux…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Jingxu Wu , Liangyu Luo , Junyi Zhang , Jiyun Yang , Haoxiang Ma , Jie Shi

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are among the key targe sources for the space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The waveforms of the EMRIs are highly sensitive to the types of the central supermassive black hole (SBH) and can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Kun Meng , Shao-Jun Zhang , Nan Yang

We present a numerical code for calculating the self force on a scalar charge moving in a bound (eccentric) geodesic in the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole. We work in the frequency domain and make use of the method of extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-27 Niels Warburton , Leor Barack

The capture of compact stellar remnants by galactic black holes provides a unique laboratory for exploring the near horizon geometry of the Kerr spacetime, or possible departures from general relativity if the central cores prove not to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 N. J. Cornish

In order to derive the precise gravitational waveforms for extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRI), we develop a formulation for the second order metric perturbations produced by a point particle moving in the Schwarzschild spacetime. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-25 Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano

We compute relativistic Lindblad torques for circular, equatorial extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) embedded in relativistic thin accretion discs, including spinning black hole configurations. We find that relativistic effects can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-22 Francisco Duque , Laura Sberna , Andrew Spiers , Rodrigo Vicente

We produce gravitational waveforms for nonspinning compact binaries undergoing a quasicircular inspiral. Our approach is based on a two-timescale expansion of the Einstein equations in second-order self-force theory, which allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Jeremy Miller , Leanne Durkan , Alexandre Le Tiec

The foundations are laid for the numerical computation of the actual worldline for a particle orbiting a black hole and emitting gravitational waves. The essential practicalities of this computation are here illustrated for a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler , Eirini Messaritaki , Bernard F. Whiting

Starting with a post-Newtonian description of compact binary systems, we derive a set of equations that describes the evolution of the orbital angular momentum and both spin vectors during inspiral. We find regions of phase space that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy D. Schnittman

We study tidal effects induced by a particle moving along a slightly eccentric equatorial orbits in a Schwarzschild spacetime within the gravitational self-force framework. We compute the first order (conservative) corrections in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

The non-linear gravitational wave (GW) memory effect is a distinct prediction in general relativity. While the effect has been well studied for comparable mass binaries, it has mostly been overlooked for intermediate mass ratio inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna , Niels Warburton