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Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) will be key sources for LISA. However, accurately extracting system parameters from a detected EMRI waveform will require self-force calculations at second order in perturbation theory, which are still…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 Samuel D. Upton , Adam Pound

We present numerically-informed closed-form expressions for the dominant $(\ell,m)=(2,2)$ waveform harmonic of the post-merger emission from mergers of non-spinning binary black holes with comparable masses on highly eccentric orbits. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Nishkal Rao , Gregorio Carullo

Space-based gravitational-wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), provide a platform to probe new fundamental fields through extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a compact secondary object carrying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Tieguang Zi , Fu-Wen Shu

Extreme mass ratio in-spirals (EMRIs) are candidate events for gravitational wave detection in the millihertz range (by detectors like LISA and eLISA). These events involve a stellar-mass black hole, or a similar compact object, descending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Jonathan Gair

The Inspiral Merger Ringdown Consistency Test (IMRCT) is one among a battery of tests of general relativity (GR) employed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration. It is used to search for deviations from GR in detected gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 Md Arif Shaikh , Sajad A. Bhat , Shasvath J. Kapadia

The detection of gravitational waves from Extreme mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) by the future space-based gravitational-wave detectors demands the generation of accurate enough waveform templates. Since the spin of the smaller secondary body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-21 Viktor Skoupý , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We present the state-of-the-art waveform model WaSABI-C for quasicircular inspirals of spinning black hole binaries with aligned or anti-aligned spins. Our model synthesizes the most up-to-date first- and second-order gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Loïc Honet , Josh Mathews , Geoffrey Compère , Adam Pound , Barry Wardell , Gabriel Andres Piovano , Maarten van de Meent , Niels Warburton

An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

To investigate the imprint on the gravitational-wave emission from extreme mass-ratio inspirals in non-pure Kerr spacetimes, we have studied the ``kludge'' waveforms generated in highly-accurate, numerically-generated spacetimes containing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Enrico Barausse , Luciano Rezzolla , David Petroff , Marcus Ansorg

Observation and characterisation of gravitational waves from binary black holes requires accurate knowledge of the expected waveforms. The late inspiral and merger phase of the waveform is obtained through direct numerical integration of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Ian Hinder , Serguei Ossokine , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Alessandra Buonanno

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most powerful probes of strong-field gravity and of the environments surrounding supermassive compact objects. Motivated by the expected presence of dark matter near galactic centers, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Mubasher Jamil , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We provide a systematic analysis of the multipolar gravitational waveform, energy and angular momentum fluxes emitted by a nonspinning test particle orbiting a Kerr black hole along equatorial, eccentric orbits. These quantities are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-31 Simone Albanesi , Alessandro Nagar , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Accurate modeling of \gls{EMRIs} is essential for extracting reliable information from future space-based gravitational wave observatories. Fast waveform generation frameworks adopt an offline/online architecture, where expensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Hassan Khalvati , Philip Lynch , Ollie Burke , Lorenzo Speri , Maarten van de Meent , Zachary Nasipak

The gravitational-wave signals emitted by Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals will be hidden in the instrumental LISA noise and the foreground noise produced by galactic binaries in the LISA band. Then, we need accurate gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-01 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We investigate extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) around a rotating Hayward black hole to assess the detectability of signatures arising from quantum gravity.The quantum parameter $\alpha_0$, which encodes deviations from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Dan Zhang , Chao Zhang , Qiyuan Pan , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu

We derive the approximate, ``analytic-kludge'' (AK) waveforms for the inspiral of a charged stellar-mass compact object (CO) into a charged massive Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole (BH). The modifications of the inspiral orbit due to the charges…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Tieguang Zi , Ziqi Zhou , Hai-Tian Wang , Peng-Cheng Li , Jian-dong Zhang , Bin Chen

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the main sources of gravitational waves expected in the low-frequency band, where space-based detectors like Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will operate. The large number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Pablo F. Muguruza , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) (capture and inspiral of a compact stellar mass object into a Massive Black Hole (MBH)) are among the most interesting objects for the gravitational wave astronomy. It is a very challenging task to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-11 Yan Wang , Yu Shang , Stanislav Babak

[Abridged] We introduce an improved version of the Eccentric, Non-spinning, Inspiral-Gaussian-process Merger Approximant (ENIGMA) waveform model. We find that this ready-to-use model can: (i) produce physically consistent signals when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-15 Zhuo Chen , E. A. Huerta , Joseph Adamo , Roland Haas , Eamonn O'Shea , Prayush Kumar , Chris Moore

Building upon several recent advances in the development of effective-one-body models for spin-aligned eccentric binaries with individual masses $(m_1,m_2)$ we introduce a new EOB waveform model that aims at describing inspiralling binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Alessandro Nagar , Simone Albanesi