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Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes, known as extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are one of the key targets for upcoming space-based gravitational-wave detectors. In this paper we take the first steps…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-01 Lukáš Polcar , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Vojtěch Witzany

In this paper we discuss the development of a fast and accurate waveform model for the quasi-circular orbital evolution of extreme-mass-ratio-inspirals (EMRIs). This model simply employs the data of a few numerical Teukoulsky-based energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-23 Wen-Biao Han

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen , Jonathan Gair

Gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral of a neutron star (NS) or stellar-mass black hole (BH) into an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) with mass between ~50 and ~350 solar masses may be detectable by the planned advanced generation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Ilya Mandel , Duncan A. Brown , Jonathan R. Gair , M. Coleman Miller

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources of gravitational waves for space-based detectors such as LISA. However, their detection remains a major data analysis challenge due to the signals' complexity and length. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Speri , Rodrigo Tenorio , Christian Chapman-Bird , Davide Gerosa

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), comprising a stellar-mass compact object (CO) orbiting a supermassive black hole (BH), are key targets for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Incorporating the spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Qiuxin Cui , Wen-Biao Han

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are promising gravitational-wave (GW) sources for space-based GW detectors. EMRI signals typically have long durations, ranging from several months to several years, necessitating highly accurate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-27 Lu-Jia Xu , Shu-Cheng Yang , Wen-Biao Han , Xing-Yu Zhong , Run-Dong Tang , Yuan-Hao Zhang

Extreme mass ratio inspirals, compact objects spiraling into massive black holes, represent key sources for future space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA. The inspirals will occur within rich astrophysical environments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Lukáš Polcar , Vojtěch Witzany

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals~(EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Inteferometric Space Antenna~(LISA) are unique probes of astrophysics and fundamental physics. Parameter estimation for these sources is challenging, especially because the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Richard Brito , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

There is a strong need for high-accuracy and efficient modeling of extreme-mass-ratio binary black hole systems because these are strong sources of gravitational waves that would be detected by future observatories. In this article, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-04 Justin McKennon , Gary Forrester , Gaurav Khanna

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are binary systems where a compact object slowly inspirals into its much larger compact partner. Since we anticipate such systems to exist within and be dynamically influenced by the galactic center…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Makana Silva , Harrison G. Blake-Goszyk , Christopher M. Hirata

Mounting evidence indicates that some of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observatories might arise from eccentric compact object binaries, increasing the urgency for accurate waveform models for such systems.…

The detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) is intricate due to their complex waveforms, extended duration, and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), making them more challenging to be identified compared to compact binary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Tianyu Zhao , Yue Zhou , Ruijun Shi , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

Gravitational waveforms capturing binary evolution through the early-inspiral phase play a critical role in extracting orbital features that nearly disappear during the late-inspiral and subsequent merger phase due to radiation reaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Pratul Manna , Tamal RoyChowdhury , Chandra Kant Mishra

We produce gravitational waveforms for nonspinning compact binaries undergoing a quasicircular inspiral. Our approach is based on a two-timescale expansion of the Einstein equations in second-order self-force theory, which allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Jeremy Miller , Leanne Durkan , Alexandre Le Tiec

We present the first models of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, focusing on quasi-circular orbits into non-rotating black holes. We show that the phase difference and (Newtonian normalized)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Nicolas Yunes , Alessandra Buonanno , Scott A. Hughes , M. Coleman Miller , Yi Pan

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes constitute some of the most important sources for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally intractable, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan Gair , Linqing Wen

Despite the recent rapid progress in numerical relativity, a convergence order less than the second has so far plagued codes solving the Einstein-Euler system of equations. We report simulations of the inspiral of binary neutron stars in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-16 David Radice , Luciano Rezzolla , Filippo Galeazzi

We present a prescription for computing gravitational waveforms for the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-spinning eccentric binary black hole systems. The inspiral waveform is computed using the post-Newtonian expansion and the merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Ian Hinder , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources for future space-based gravitational wave interferometers. Measurements of EMRI gravitational waves are expected to determine the characteristics of their sources with…