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Among the potential milliHz gravitational wave (GW) sources for the upcoming space-based interferometer LISA are extreme- or intermediate-mass ratio inspirals (EMRI/IMRIs). These events involve the coalescence of supermassive black holes in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-09 A. Derdzinski , D. D'Orazio , P. Duffell , Z. Haiman , A. Macfadyen

We study the evolution of eccentric, equatorial extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) immersed in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei. We find that single gravitational-wave observations from these systems could provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-30 Francisco Duque , Shubham Kejriwal , Laura Sberna , Lorenzo Speri , Jonathan Gair

Upcoming space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will be sensitive to extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs and IMRIs). These binaries are comprised of a supermassive…

The coalescence of a compact object with a $10^{4}-10^{7} {\rm M_\odot}$ supermassive black hole (SMBH) produces mHz gravitational waves (GWs) detectable by the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). If such an inspiral occurs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-14 A. Derdzinski , D. D'Orazio , P. Duffell , Z. Haiman , A. MacFadyen

The future space-borne Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational waves (GW) from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI) binaries which may live in nontrivial environments such as accretion disks. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Marco Immanuel B. Rivera , Reinabelle C. Reyes

We study the effects of a thin gaseous accretion disk on the inspiral of a stellar--mass black hole into a supermassive black hole. We construct a phenomenological angular momentum transport equation that reproduces known disk effects. Disk…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicolás Yunes , Bence Kocsis , Abraham Loeb , Zoltán Haiman

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) carry valuable information about their surrounding astrophysical environments. Over the course of their long-term evolution, interactions between the secondary object and the accretion disk can produce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Jian-Dong Liu , Wen-Biao Han , Hiromichi Tagawa

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), namely binary systems composed of a massive black hole and a compact stellar-mass object, are anticipated to be among the gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-23 Chang Liu , Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini

The future space-based gravitational wave observatory, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, is expected to observe between 1-1000s extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) per year. Due to the simultaneous presence of other gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Sviatoslav Khukhlaev , Stanislav Babak

Gravitational wave (GW) detector LISA will observe near-coalescence extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), which typically form in galactic central accretion disks. Gas torques on EMRI will alter its GW-driven inspiral trajectory from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-24 Mudit Garg , Lucio Mayer , Yinhao Wu , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Douglas N. C. Lin

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the mHz frequency window of the gravitational wave (GW) landscape. Among all the new GW sources expected to emit in this frequency band, extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) constitute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Stanislav Babak , David Izquierdo-Villalba

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

The merger of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) produces mHz gravitational waves (GW), which are potentially detectable by future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Such binary systems are usually embedded in an accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-17 Fatemeh Hossein Nouri , Agnieszka Janiuk

Gravitational waves from asymmetric mass-ratio black-hole binaries carry unique information about their astrophysical environment. For instance, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) could potentially measure the amplitude and slope…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Lorenzo Copparoni , Lorenzo Speri , Laura Sberna , Andrea Derdzinski , Enrico Barausse

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. binary systems comprised by a compact stellar-mass object orbiting a massive black hole, are expected to be among the primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming LISA mission. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

The space based interferometer LISA will be capable of detecting the gravitational waves emitted by stellar mass black holes or neutron stars slowly inspiralling into the supermassive black holes found in the centre of most galaxies. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-14 Christopher J. Moore , Alvin J. K. Chua , Jonathan R. Gair

The field of gravitational waves is rapidly progressing due to the noticeable advancements in the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors that has enabled the detection prospects of binary black hole mergers. Extreme mass ratio inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

The inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive ($\sim 10^{4}$-$10^{7} M_{\odot}$) black hole produces an intricate gravitational-wave signal. Due to the extreme-mass ratios involved, these systems complete $\sim…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect up to thousands of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). These sources will spend $\sim 10^5$ cycles in band, and are therefore sensitive to tiny changes in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Shubham Kejriwal , Enrico Barausse , Alvin J. K. Chua
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