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Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have recently attracted much attention as they may explain some of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observations and significantly contribute to the dark matter in our universe. The next generation of Gravitational Wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 G. Franciolini , F. Iacovelli , M. Mancarella , M. Maggiore , P. Pani , A. Riotto

Early detection and localization of gravitational waves (GWs) are essential for identifying electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, playing a key role in multi-messenger astronomy. However, second-generation (2G) ground-based detectors are most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee

Measurements of black-hole spins from gravitational-wave observations of black-hole binaries with ground-based detectors are expected to be hampered by partial degeneracies in the gravitational-wave phasing: between the two component spins,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Michael Pürrer , Mark Hannam , Frank Ohme

Supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) in galactic centers may radiate gravitational wave (GW) in the nano-Hertz frequency band, which are expected to be detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) in the near future. GW signals from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Changshuo Yan , Wen Zhao , Youjun Lu

Gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries have the potential to uncover the distribution of masses and angular momenta of black holes and neutron stars in the universe. The binary components' physical parameters can be inferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark Hannam , Duncan A. Brown , Stephen Fairhurst , Chris L. Fryer , Ian W. Harry

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect gravitational wave signals from astrophysical sources, including those from coalescing binary systems of compact objects such as black holes. Colliding galaxies have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Joey Shapiro Key , Neil J. Cornish

Orbital eccentricity is one of the most robust discriminators for distinguishing between dynamical and isolated formation scenarios of binary black hole mergers using gravitational-wave observatories such as LIGO and Virgo. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-12 Michael Zevin , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Kyle Kremer , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

The astrophysical origin of gravitational wave (GW) transients is a timely open question in the wake of discoveries by LIGO/Virgo. In active galactic nuclei (AGNs), binaries form and evolve efficiently by interaction with a dense population…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Hiromichi Tagawa , Bence Kocsis , Zoltan Haiman , Imre Bartos , Kazuyuki Omukai , Johan Samsing

Stellar mass black hole binaries have individual masses between 10-80 solar masses. These systems may emit gravitational waves at frequencies detectable at Megaparsec distances by space-based gravitational wave observatories. In a previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Matthew Benacquista , Jesus Hinojosa , Alberto Mata , Krzysztof Belczynski

Mergers of binary black holes on eccentric orbits are among the targets for second-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. These sources may commonly form in galactic nuclei due to gravitational-wave emission during close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-06 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis , Péter Raffai , Zsolt Frei

The observation of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers has established the field of gravitational wave astronomy. It is expected that future networks of gravitational wave detectors will possess great potential in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Joseph Mills , Vaibhav Tiwari , Stephen Fairhurst

Recent studies have shown that AGN discs can host sources of gravitational waves. Compact binaries can form and merge in AGN discs through their interactions with the gas and other compact objects in the disc. It is also possible for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-22 Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar , Gongjie Li , Doug Lin

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is the future third generation gravitational wave detector consisting of three independent interferometers arranged in a triangular configuration, with the sensitivity large enough to be able to detect stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Neha Singh , Tomasz Bulik

Binary neutron stars (BNSs) are the primary source of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its international partners Virgo and KAGRA. Current BNS searches target field binaries whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-11 E. A. Huerta , Duncan A. Brown

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of compact binaries have the potential to unlock several remarkable applications in astrophysics, cosmology, and nuclear physics through accurate measurements of the source luminosity distance and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Adriano Frattale Mascioli , Francesco Crescimbeni , Costantino Pacilio , Paolo Pani , Francesco Pannarale

We investigate the detectability of single-event coalescing black hole binaries with total mass of $100-600 M_{\odot}$ at cosmological distances ($5 \lesssim z \lesssim 20$) with the next generation of terrestrial gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-30 Stephen Fairhurst , Cameron Mills , Monica Colpi , Raffaella Schneider , Alberto Sesana , Alessandro Trinca , Rosa Valiante

Compact binary systems with black holes are the primary sources of interferometric advanced gravitational wave detectors. Astrophysical models suggest finite possibility of binary systems with appreciable non-zero eccentricity in the dense…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Nirban Bose , Archana Pai

We study the prospects of future gravitational wave (GW) detectors in probing primordial black hole (PBH) binaries. We show that across a broad mass range from $10^{-5}M_\odot$ to $10^7M_\odot$, future GW interferometers provide a potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 Oriol Pujolas , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

The next generation of detectors will detect gravitational waves from binary neutron stars at cosmological distances, for which around a thousand electromagnetic follow-ups may be observed per year. So far, most work devoted to the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-17 Viviane Alfradique , Miguel Quartin , Luca Amendola , Tiago Castro , Alexandre Toubiana

Revealing the nature of the nanoHz gravitational wave (GW) signal recently reported by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) collaborations around the world is the next goal of low-frequency GW astronomy. The signal likely originates from the…