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Stellar-mass binary black holes (sBBHs) formed in globular clusters (GCs) are promising sources for multiband gravitational wave (GW) observations, particularly with low- and middle-frequency detectors. These sBBHs can retain detectable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Yuetong Zhao , Abbas Askar , Youjun Lu , Zhoujian Cao , Mirek Giersz , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Arkadiusz Hypki , Lucas Hellstrom , Sohaib Ali , Wei-Tou Ni

We investigate the prospects of detecting gravitational waves from coalescing massive black hole binaries in the Universe with the TianQin observatory, a space-based gravitational wave interferometer proposed to be launched in the 2030s. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Hai-Tian Wang , Zhen Jiang , Alberto Sesana , Enrico Barausse , Shun-Jia Huang , Yi-Fan Wang , Wen-Fan Feng , Yan Wang , Yi-Ming Hu , Jianwei Mei , Jun Luo

Gravitational waves (GWs) have provided a new lens through which to view the universe beyond traditional electromagnetic methods. The upcoming space-based gravitational wave mission, Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will give us…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Shaniya Jarrett , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Robert J. Scherrer

The current gravitational wave (GW) detectors have successfully observed many binary compact objects, and the third generation ground-based GW detectors such as Einstein telescope and space-borne detectors such as LISA will start their GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-15 Kotaro Hijikawa , Tomoya Kinugawa , Ataru Tanikawa , Takashi Yoshida , Hideyuki Umeda

Coalescing, massive black-hole (MBH) binaries are the most powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the Universe, which makes MBH science a prime focus for ongoing and upcoming GW observatories. The Laser Interferometer Space…

Massive black hole binaries, with masses in the range 1E3-1E8 Msun, are expected to be the most powerful sources of gravitational radiation at mHz frequencies, and hence are among the primary targets for the planned Laser Interferometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sesana , F. Haardt , P. Madau , M. Volonteri

Identifying the host galaxy of a binary black hole (BBH) merger detected via gravitational waves (GWs) remains a challenge due to the absence of electromagnetic counterparts and the large localization volumes produced by current-generation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Sumedha Biswas , Andrew Levan , Peter G. Jonker , Kendall Ackley , Gregory Ashton , Nikhil Sarin

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational-wave (GW) observatory will be limited in its ability to detect mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) in the stellar-mass range. A future ground-based detector network, meanwhile,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Kaze W. K. Wong , Ely D. Kovetz , Curt Cutler , Emanuele Berti

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 derive the probability for a newly formed binary black hole (BBH) to undergo an eccentric gravitational wave (GW) merger during binary-single interactions inside a stellar cluster. By integrating over the hardening interactions such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-30 Johan Samsing

It is known that massive black holes (MBHs) of $10^{5-7}\,M_\odot$ could capture small compact objects to form extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Such systems emit gravitational waves (GWs) in the band of the Laser Interferometer Space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-29 Wen-Biao Han , Xian Chen

The gravitational memory effect manifests gravitational nonlinearity, degenerate vacua, and asymptotic symmetries; its detection is considered challenging. We propose using the space-borne interferometer to detect memory signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Shaoqi Hou , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

With the discovery of the black hole binary (BBH) coalescence GW150914 the era of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy has started. It has recently been shown that BBH with masses comparable to or higher than GW150914 would be visible in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-02 Salvatore Vitale

Massive black holes (MBHs) exist in the Galactic center (GC) and other nearby galactic nuclei. As natural outcome of galaxy mergers, some MBHs may have a black hole (BH) companion. In this paper, assuming that the MBHs in the GC and some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-22 Xiao Guo , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu

We derive the observable gravitational wave (GW) peak frequency ($f$) distribution of binary black holes (BBHs) that currently reside inside their globular clusters (GCs), with and without 2.5 Post-Newtonian (2.5PN) effects included in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-28 Johan Samsing , Daniel J. D'Orazio

Study of gravitational-radiation induced merging rates of relativistic binary stars (double neutron stars; neutron star + black hole; double black holes) shows that the first-generation gravitational wave interferometers with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 V. M. Lipunov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

The detection of a gravitational capture of a stellar-mass compact object by a massive black hole (MBH) will allow us to test gravity in the strong regime. These sources form via two-body relaxation, by exchanging energy and angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-03 Pau Amaro-Seoane

Binary black holes (BBHs) are one of the endpoints of isolated binary evolution, and their mergers a leading channel for gravitational wave events. Here, using the evolutionary code \textsc{StarTrack}, we study the statistical properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-19 Rosalba Perna , Martyna Chruslinska , Alessandra Corsi , Krzysztof Belczynski

Context. Population III star clusters are predicted to form in unenriched dark matter halos. Direct N-body simulation of Pop III clusters implies the possible formation and merger of intermediate-mass binary black holes (IMBBHs). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 Hanzhang Wang , Shuai Liu , Han Wang , Hongyu Chen , Long Wang , Yiming Hu

The coalescence of massive black hole (BH) binaries due to galaxy mergers provides a primary source of low-frequency gravitational radiation detectable by pulsar timing measurements and by the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometry Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Abraham Loeb