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We present a complete pipeline for detecting and characterizing gravitational waves (GWs) produced by the inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes in data from the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The analysis framework relies…

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We explore the eccentricity measurement threshold of LISA for gravitational waves radiated by massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with redshifted BH masses $M_z$ in the range $10^{4.5}$-$10^{7.5}~{\rm M}_\odot$ at redshift $z=1$. The…

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The massive black holes we observe in galaxies today are the natural end-product of a complex evolutionary path, in which black holes seeded in proto-galaxies at high redshift grow through cosmic history via a sequence of mergers and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-23 Alberto Sesana , Jonathan R. Gair , Emanuele Berti , Marta Volonteri

We estimate the rate at which the proposed space gravitational-wave interferometer LISA could detect intermediate-mass black-hole binaries, that is, binaries containing a black hole in the mass range 10 -- 100 Msun orbiting a black hole in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Clifford M. Will

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect a variety of gravitational-wave events, including mergers of massive black hole binaries, stellar-mass black hole inspirals, and extreme mass-ratio inspirals. LISA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Aasim Jan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Lange

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory to measure gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band. This frequency band is expected to be dominated by signals from millions of Galactic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

We investigate the capability of LISA to measure the sky position of equal-mass, nonspinning black hole binaries, combining for the first time the entire inspiral-merger-ringdown signal, the effect of the LISA orbits, and the complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Sean T. McWilliams , Ryan N. Lang , John G. Baker , James Ira Thorpe

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is slated for launch in the early 2030s. A main target of the mission is massive black hole binaries that have an expected detection rate of $\sim20$ yr$^{-1}$. We present a parameter estimation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-05 Michael L. Katz , Sylvain Marsat , Alvin J. K. Chua , Stanislav Babak , Shane L. Larson

The laser-interferometer space antenna (LISA) will be launched in the mid 2030s. It promises to observe the coalescence of massive black-hole (BH) binaries with signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) reaching thousands. Crucially, it will detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Alexandre Toubiana , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael L. Katz

We consider LISA observations of in-spiral signals emitted by massive black hole binary systems in circular orbit and with negligible spins. We study the accuracy with which the source parameters can be extracted from the data stream. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Sintes , A. Vecchio

Space-based gravitational-wave observatories will detect the early inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes and can track their eccentricity evolution. However, untargeted searches in the space band are computationally demanding and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Han Wang , Michael J. Williams , Ian Harry , Yi-Ming Hu

We study parameter estimation of supermassive black holes in the range $10^5-10^8\Ms$ by LISA using the inspiral full post-Newtonian gravitational waveforms, and we compare the results with those arising from the commonly used restricted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-27 Miquel Trias , Alicia M. Sintes

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), due for launch in the mid 2030s, is expected to observe gravitational waves (GW)s from merging massive black hole binaries (MBHB)s. These signals can last from days to months, depending on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Connor R. Weaving , Laura K. Nuttall , Ian W. Harry , Shichao Wu , Alexander Nitz

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational-wave signals from a wide range of sources, including massive black hole binaries. Although numerous techniques have been developed to perform Bayesian inference for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-26 Charlie Hoy , Connor Weaving , Laura K. Nuttall , Ian Harry

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is expected to observe gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries across cosmic time. Many are anticipated to be detectable hours to weeks before coalescence. We present a fast algorithm for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Francesco Nobili , Malvina Bellotti , Riccardo Buscicchio , Massimo Dotti , Alessandro Lupi

The population of stellar origin black hole binaries (SOBHBs) detected by existing ground-based gravitational wave detectors is an exciting target for the future space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). LISA is sensitive to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Matthew C. Digman , Neil J. Cornish

Binary systems of massive black holes will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) throughout the entire Universe. Observations of gravitational waves from this class of sources will have important repercussions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alberto Vecchio

Gravitational waves from the inspiral and coalescence of supermassive black-hole (SMBH) binaries with masses ~10^6 Msun are likely to be among the strongest sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We describe a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Duncan A. Brown , Jeff Crowder , Curt Cutler , Ilya Mandel , Michele Vallisneri

We compare the science capabilities of different eLISA mission designs, including four-link (two-arm) and six-link (three-arm) configurations with different arm lengths, low-frequency noise sensitivities and mission durations. For each of…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe black hole binaries of stellar origin during their gravitational wave inspiral, months to years before coalescence. Due to the long duration of the signal in the LISA band, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Alberto Mangiagli , Antoine Klein , Alberto Sesana , Enrico Barausse , Monica Colpi