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We explore the ability of future low-frequency gravitational wave detectors to measure the spin of stellar mass and intermediate mass black holes that inspiral onto super-massive Kerr black holes (SMBHs). We develop a kludge waveform model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass compact object spirals into a supermassive black hole, are prime candidates for detection with space-borne milliHertz gravitational wave detectors, similar to the Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-15 Jonathan R. Gair , Nicolas Yunes

Scientific analysis for the gravitational-wave detector LISA will require theoretical waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that extensively cover all possible orbital and spin configurations around astrophysical Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Soichiro Isoyama , Ryuichi Fujita , Alvin J. K. Chua , Hiroyuki Nakano , Adam Pound , Norichika Sago

Although the gravitational waves observed by advanced LIGO and Virgo are consistent with compact binaries in a quasi-circular inspiral prior to coalescence, eccentric inspirals are also expected to occur in Nature. Due to their complexity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Blake Moore , Travis Robson , Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

One of the main targets for space-borne gravitational wave detectors is the detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs). The data analysis of EMRIs requires waveform models that are both accurate and fast. The major challenge for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Yan-bo Zeng , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu , Jianwei Mei

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed third generation ground-based interferometer, for which the target is a sensitivity that is a factor of ten better than Advanced LIGO and a frequency range that extends down to about 1Hz. ET will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-18 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair

The forthcoming space-based gravitational-wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) should enable the detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs), in which a stellar-mass compact object gradually inspirals into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Michal Stratený , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Ondřej Zelenka

We improve the numerical kludge waveform model introduced in [1] in two ways. We extend the equations of motion for spinning black hole binaries derived by Saijo et al. [2] using spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings taken from perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-20 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair , Duncan A. Brown

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes, are important gravitational wave sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We study the performance of various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-31 Vijay Varma , Ryuichi Fujita , Ashok Choudhary , Bala R. Iyer

We compute adiabatic waveforms for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by "stitching" together a long inspiral waveform from a sequence of waveform snapshots, each of which corresponds to a particular geodesic orbit. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-01 Scott A. Hughes , Niels Warburton , Gaurav Khanna , Alvin J. K. Chua , Michael L. Katz

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals are one of the most exciting and promising target sources for space-based interferometers (such as LISA, TianQin). The observation of their emitted gravitational waves will offer stringent tests on general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-22 Priti Gupta , Lorenzo Speri , Béatrice Bonga , Alvin J. K. Chua , Takahiro Tanaka

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) will be an important type of astrophysical source for future space-based gravitational-wave detectors. There is a trade-off between accuracy and computational speed for the EMRI waveform templates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-03 Alvin J. K. Chua

The numerical waveforms for the extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) require a huge amount of homogeneous solutions of the Teukolsky equation in the frequency domain. The calculation accuracy and efficiency of the homogeneous solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Ye Jiang , Wen-Biao Han

Space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA are expected to detect inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. Modeling such inspirals requires fully relativistic computations to achieve sufficient accuracy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Viktor Skoupý , Vojtěch Witzany

We construct effective-one-body waveform models suitable for data analysis with LISA for extreme-mass ratio inspirals in quasi-circular, equatorial orbits about a spinning supermassive black hole. The accuracy of our model is established…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-23 Nicolas Yunes , Alessandra Buonanno , Scott A. Hughes , Yi Pan , Enrico Barausse , M. Coleman Miller , William Throwe

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) provide unique probes of near-horizon dissipation through the tidal heating. We present a full Bayesian analysis of tidal heating in equatorial eccentric EMRIs by performing injection-recovery studies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Zhong-Wu Xia , Sheng Long , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing , Wei-Liang Qian

We present a first complete implementation of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that incorporates aligned spins (on both the primary and the secondary) as well as orbital eccentricity. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Angelica Albertini , Rossella Gamba , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We present a time-domain inspiral-merger-ringdowm (IMR) waveform model ESIGMAHM constructed within a framework we named ESIGMA for coalescing binaries of spinning black holes on moderately eccentric orbits (Huerta et al. (2018) [Phys. Rev.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Kaushik Paul , Akash Maurya , Quentin Henry , Kartikey Sharma , Pranav Satheesh , Divyajyoti , Prayush Kumar , Chandra Kant Mishra

Spherical harmonic modes of gravitational waveforms for inspiraling compact binaries in eccentric orbits from post-Newtonian (PN) theory accurate to third post-Newtonian order, and those extracted from numerical relativity (NR) simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Abhishek Chattaraj , Tamal RoyChowdhury , Divyajyoti , Chandra Kant Mishra , Anshu Gupta

We present an improved version of the approximate scheme for generating inspirals of test-bodies into a Kerr black hole recently developed by Glampedakis, Hughes and Kennefick. Their original "hybrid" scheme was based on combining exact…

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