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

The gravitational-wave (GW) inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects onto a supermassive black hole (MBH), are some of the most promising GW sources detectable by next-generation space-born GW-detectors. The rates and characteristics of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-05 Yael Raveh , Hagai B. Perets

We present an improved numerical kludge waveform model for circular, equatorial EMRIs. The model is based on true Kerr geodesics, augmented by radiative self-force corrections derived from perturbative calculations, and in this paper for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-22 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair

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) 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…

Intermediate/Extreme mass ratio inspiral (I/EMRI) system provides a good tool to test the nature of gravity in strong field. Based on the method of osculating orbits, we compute the orbital evolutions of I/EMRIs on quasi-elliptic orbits in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Tong Jiang , Ning Dai , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Chao Zhang

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

The inspirals of compact objects into massive black holes are some of the most exciting of the potential sources of gravitational waves for the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Observations of such extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Jonathan R Gair

The detection of the gravitational waves emitted in the capture process of a compact object by a massive black hole is known as an extreme-mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) and represents a unique probe of gravity in the strong regime and is one…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-03 Pau Amaro-Seoane

One of the important targets for the future space-based gravitational wave observatory LISA is extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where long and accurate waveform modeling is necessary for detection and characterization. Modeling EMRI…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 David Bronicki , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Leo C. Stein

We present new developments and comparisons of competing inspiral and waveform models for highly eccentric non-spinning extreme and intermediate mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs and IMRIs). Starting from our high eccentricity self-force library,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-15 Jonathan McCart , Thomas Osburn , Justin Y. J. Burton

The "flux-balance formulae" that determine the averaged evolution of energy, azimuthal angular momentum, and Carter constant in terms of the averaged asymptotic gravitational-wave fluxes for inspirals of small bodies into Kerr black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-23 Soichiro Isoyama , Ryuichi Fujita , Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Takahiro Tanaka

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

A stellar-mass compact object spiraling into a supermassive black hole, an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI), is one of the targets of future gravitational-wave detectors and it offers a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-07 Nicolas Yunes , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are important sources for space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Such a source normally consists of a stellar-mass black hole (BH) and a Kerr supermassive BH (SMBH), but recent astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Xian Chen , Zhongfu Zhang

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

Self-force theory is the leading method of modeling extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), key sources for the gravitational-wave detector LISA. It is well known that for an accurate EMRI model, second-order self-force effects are critical,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-22 Adam Pound , Barry Wardell , Niels Warburton , Jeremy Miller

We extend the work of Ryan on mapping the spacetime of the central object of an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) by using gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the system, which may be observed in future missions such as LISA. Whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-12 Sayak Datta , Sukanta Bose

Accurate calculation of the gradual inspiral motion in an extreme mass-ratio binary system, in which a compact-object inspirals towards a supermassive black-hole requires calculation of the interaction between the compact-object and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Rosenthal

The gravitational capture of a stellar-mass object by a supermassive black hole represents a unique probe of warped spacetime. The small object, typically a stellar-mass black hole, describes a very large number of cycles before crossing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Pau Amaro Seoane , Yiren Lin , Kostas Tzanavaris