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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the mHz frequency window of the gravitational wave (GW) landscape. Among all the new GW sources expected to emit in this frequency band, extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) constitute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Stanislav Babak , David Izquierdo-Villalba

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), namely binary systems composed of a massive black hole and a compact stellar-mass object, are anticipated to be among the gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-23 Chang Liu , Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. binary systems comprised by a compact stellar-mass object orbiting a massive black hole, are expected to be among the primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming LISA mission. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

The space based interferometer LISA will be capable of detecting the gravitational waves emitted by stellar mass black holes or neutron stars slowly inspiralling into the supermassive black holes found in the centre of most galaxies. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-14 Christopher J. Moore , Alvin J. K. Chua , Jonathan R. Gair

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

We present the first joint gravitational-wave cosmological inference with LISA extreme mass-ratio inspirals at $z\lesssim1$ (galaxy redshifts) and massive black hole binaries at $z\gtrsim1$ (electromagnetic counterparts). Combining these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Enrico Barausse , Chiara Caprini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Mangiagli , Sylvain Marsat

The inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive ($\sim 10^{4}$-$10^{7} M_{\odot}$) black hole produces an intricate gravitational-wave signal. Due to the extreme-mass ratios involved, these systems complete $\sim…

The future space-based gravitational wave observatory, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, is expected to observe between 1-1000s extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) per year. Due to the simultaneous presence of other gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Sviatoslav Khukhlaev , Stanislav Babak

The field of gravitational waves is rapidly progressing due to the noticeable advancements in the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors that has enabled the detection prospects of binary black hole mergers. Extreme mass ratio inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

The space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to observe the gravitational-wave signals from systems comprised of a massive black hole and a stellar-mass compact object. These systems are known as extreme-mass-ratio…

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are key sources for the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA, and are considered promising probes of fundamental physics. Here, we present the first complete Bayesian analysis of EMRI…

The inspirals of stellar-mass mass compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies are one of the most important sources of gravitational radiation for space-based detectors like LISA or eLISA. These extreme-mass-ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Jonathan R. Gair , Adam Pound , Scott A. Hughes , Carlos F. Sopuerta

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

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

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for space-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). EMRIs consist of a compact stellar object orbiting around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-05 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We present the first joint inference of standard sirens and gravitational wave weak lensing by filtering of the same dataset. We imagine a post-LISA scenario emerging around the late 2030s when LISA will have accumulated a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-03 Giuseppe Congedo , Andy Taylor

Advancements in cosmology through next-generation ground-based gravitational wave observatories will bring in a paradigm shift. We explore the pivotal role that gravitational-wave standard sirens will play in inferring cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-17 Hsin-Yu Chen , Jose María Ezquiaga , Ish Gupta

In this article we consider prospects for detecting extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) using gravitational wave (GW) observations by a future space borne interferometric observatory eLISA. We start with a description of EMRI formation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Stanislav Babak , Jonathan R. Gair , Robert H. Cole

In this work, we investigate detection rates and parameter estimation of strongly-lensed extreme mass-ratio inspirals (LEMRIs) in the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Our results indicate that LEMRIs constitute a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Martina Toscani , Ollie Burke , Chang Liu , Nour Bou Zamel , Nicola Tamanini , Federico Pozzoli
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