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Gravitational waves emitted during intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) into supermassive black holes could represent a very interesting source for LISA. Similarly, IMRIs of stellar-mass compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilya Mandel , Jonathan R. Gair

Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of the Universe. In this work, we investigate the impact future gravitational-wave observatories will have on cosmology. Third-generation observatories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Zhi-Qiang You , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Gregory Ashton , Eric Thrane , Zong-Hong Zhu

This paper evaluates the potential for constraining the quantum scale parameter $\xi$ of regular black hole within the asymptotically safe gravity framework using gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Since $\xi$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

The multi-messenger observation of GW170817 enabled the first historic measurement of the Hubble constant via a standard siren, so-called in analogy to standard candles that enabled the measurement of the luminosity distance versus redshift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-29 Josiel Mendonça , Riccardo Sturani

With planned space-based and 3rd generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors (LISA, Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer), and proposed DeciHz detectors (DECIGO, Big Bang Observer), it is timely to explore statistical cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Charlie T. Mpetha , Giuseppe Congedo , Andy Taylor

Gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are a key observational target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The waveforms may be affected by the astrophysical environment surrounding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Soumodeep Mitra , Nicholas Speeney , Sumanta Chakraborty , Emanuele Berti

Recently it was shown that the inclusion of higher signal harmonics in the inspiral signals of binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) leads to dramatic improvements in parameter estimation with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 K G Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra , Chris Van Den Broeck , B R Iyer , B S Sathyaprakash , Siddhartha Sinha

The notion that microparsec-scale black holes can be used to probe gigaparsec-scale physics may seem counterintuitive, at first. Yet, the gravitational observatory LISA will detect cosmologically-distant coalescing pairs of massive black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kristen Menou , Zoltan Haiman , Bence Kocsis

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the primary targets for the recently adopted millihertz gravitational-wave (GW) observatory LISA. Some previous studies have argued that a fraction of all EMRIs form in matter-rich…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Shubham Kejriwal , Vojtech Witzany , Michal Zajacek , Dheeraj R. Pasham , Alvin J. K. Chua

One of the primary goals of space-borne gravitational wave detectors is to detect and analyze extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This endeavor presents a significant challenge due to the complex and lengthy EMRI signals, further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-01 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Yi-Yang Guo , He Wang , Minghui Du

Gravitational wave standard sirens can be used to arbitrate the $H_0$ tension within the following several years. In the future, the observation of gravitational wave standard sirens would be developed into a powerful new cosmological probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Xin Zhang

Upcoming space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will be sensitive to extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs and IMRIs). These binaries are comprised of a supermassive…

We present the predictions with standard sirens at Gravitational Waves detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and the Einstein Telescope (ET), for interacting dark energy theories. We focus on four models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Elsa M. Teixeira , Richard Daniel , Noemi Frusciante , Carsten van de Bruck

In the next decades, the gravitational-wave (GW) standard siren observations and the neutral hydrogen 21-cm intensity mapping (IM) surveys, as two promising cosmological probes, will play an important role in precisely measuring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-15 Shang-Jie Jin , Ling-Feng Wang , Peng-Ju Wu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We study the holographic dark energy (HDE) model by using the future gravitational wave (GW) standard siren data observed from the Einstein Telescope (ET) in this work. We simulate 1000 GW standard siren data based on a 10-year observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-10 Jing-Fei Zhang , Hong-Yan Dong , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang

Massive stellar origin black hole binaries (SBHBs), originating from stars above the pair-instability mass gap, are primary candidates for multiband gravitational wave (GW) observations. Here we study the possibility to use them as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Niccolò Muttoni , Alberto Mangiagli , Alberto Sesana , Danny Laghi , Walter Del Pozzo , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Mattia Rosati

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational wave signals from a wide range of sources. However, disentangling individual signals from the source-dominated data stream is a challenging problem and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Jonathan R Gair , Gareth Jones

The gravitational waves (GW) emitted during the coalescence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the mass range 10^4-10^7 M_sun will be detectable out to high redshifts with LISA. We calculate the size and orientation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Kocsis , Z. Frei , Z. Haiman , K. Menou

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are long-duration gravitational-wave sources in which a compact object gradually spirals into a massive black hole. Their formation is governed by the interplay between stochastic angular-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chen Feng , Yong Tang

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals, a target source for the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA, are a sensitive probe of fundamental scalar fields coupled to gravity. We assess the capability of LISA to detect whether the secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-19 Matteo Della Rocca , Susanna Barsanti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli