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The gravitational capture of a stellar-mass compact object (CO) by a supermassive black hole is a unique probe of gravity in the strong field regime. Because of the large mass ratio, we call these sources extreme-mass ratio inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Pau Amaro-Seoane

Primordial black hole (PBH), which can be naturally produced in the early universe, remains a promising dark matter candidate . It can merge with a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the center of a galaxy and generate gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Huai-Ke Guo , Jing Shu , Yue Zhao

One of the most exciting prospects for the LISA gravitational wave observatory is the detection of gravitational radiation from the inspiral of a compact object into a supermassive black hole. The large inspiral parameter space and low…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan R Gair , Leor Barack , Teviet Creighton , Curt Cutler , Shane L Larson , E Sterl Phinney , Michele Vallisneri

We describe a new class of resonances for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs): tidal resonances, induced by the tidal field of nearby stars or stellar-mass black holes. A tidal resonance can be viewed as a general relativistic extension of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-24 Béatrice Bonga , Huan Yang , Scott A. Hughes

I review the expected Galactic sources of gravitational waves, concentrating on the low-frequency domain and summarise the current observational and theoretical knowledge we have. A model for the Galactic population of close binaries, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Nelemans

Gravitational wave (GW) signals from compact binary coalescences can be used as standard sirens to constrain cosmological parameters if their redshift can be measured independently. However, mergers of stellar binary black holes (BBHs) may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Ju Chen , Changshuo Yan , Youjun Lu , Yuetong Zhao , Junqiang Ge

One of the primary objectives for space-borne gravitational wave detectors is the detection of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This undertaking poses a substantial challenge because of the complex and long EMRI signals, further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Yi-Yang Guo , He Wang , Minghui Du

We study the possibility of probing dark energy behaviour using gravitational wave experiments like LISA and Advanced LIGO. Using two popular parameterizations for dark energy equation of state, we show that with current sensitivities of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-16 Bikash R. Dinda , Anjan A. Sen

Gravitational wave (GW) sources at cosmological distances can be used to probe the expansion rate of the Universe. GWs directly provide a distance estimation of the source but no direct information on its redshift. The optimal scenario to…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA, will detect gravitational wave signals from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals, where a stellar mass compact object orbits a supermassive black hole and eventually plunges into it. Here we report on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Andrea Maselli , Nicola Franchini , Leonardo Gualtieri , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Susanna Barsanti , Paolo Pani

Cold dark matter may form dense structures around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), significantly influencing their local environments. These dense regions are ideal sites for the formation of extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chen Feng , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

Forthcoming advances in direct gravitational wave detection from kilohertz to nanohertz frequencies have unique capabilities to detect signatures from or set meaningful constraints on a wide range of new cosmological phenomena and new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Craig J. Hogan

The third-generation ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector, Cosmic Explorer (CE), is scheduled to start its observation in the 2030s. In this paper, we make a forecast for cosmological parameter estimation with gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 Shang-Jie Jin , Dong-Ze He , Yidong Xu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

This chapter introduces gravitational wave cosmology, focusing on the use of gravitational waves as standard sirens to probe the expansion history of the Universe. It presents and explains the methodologies behind bright and dark siren…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Grégoire Pierra , Simone Mastrogiovanni

Although cosmic string scenario for galaxy formation is disfavored by CMB data, it is of great interest in the generation of cosmic gravitational-wave background. This research aims to develop an algorithm to extract cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-20 Alf Tang , Timothy J. Sumner

Gravitational waves emitted by chirping supermassive black hole binaries could in principle be used to obtain very accurate distance determinations. Provided they have an electromagnetic counterpart from which the redshift can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Jakob Jonsson , Ariel Goobar , Edvard Mortsell

The detection of GW170817 and the measurement of its redshift from the associated electromagnetic counterpart provided the first gravitational wave determination of the Hubble constant ($H_0$), demonstrating the potential power of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Alexandra G. Hanselman , Aditya Vijaykumar , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

At the Galactic Centre, we can expect a population of a few tens of early extreme-mass ratio inspirals (E-EMRIs) and extremely large mass ratio inspirals (XMRIs). Depending on their evolutionary stage, they can be highly eccentric, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Pau Amaro Seoane , Shao-Dong Zhao

In this work, using the Gaussian process, we explore the potentiality of future gravitational wave (GW) measurements to probe cosmic opacity at high redshifts through comparing its opacity-free luminosity distance (LD) with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Xiangyun Fu , Jianfei Yang , Zhaoxia Chen , Lu Zhou , Jun Chen

Gravitational waves (GWs) are signals that propagate across large distances in the Universe, and thus, they bring information on the cosmic history. GW sources are at the same time distance indicators and tracers of the matter field. Events…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Isabela S. Matos