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LISA will be able to detect gravitational waves from inspiralling massive black hole (MBH) binaries out to redshifts z > 10. If the binary masses and luminosity distances can be extracted from the LISA data stream, this information can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Baker , J. Centrella

The remarkable sensitivity achieved by the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will allow us to observe gravitational-wave signals from the mergers of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Sophia Yi , Francesco Iacovelli , Sylvain Marsat , Digvijay Wadekar , Emanuele Berti

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to detect massive black hole mergers throughout the visible Universe. These observations will provide unique information about black hole formation and growth, and the role black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Neil J. Cornish , Kevin Shuman

The early inspiral of massive stellar-mass black-hole binaries merging in LIGO's sensitivity band will be detectable at low frequencies by the upcoming space mission LISA. LISA will predict, with years of forewarning, the time and frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Rhondale Tso , Davide Gerosa , Yanbei Chen

Observations by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA (LVK) detectors have provided new insights in the demographics of stellar-origin black hole binaries (sBHB). A few years before gravitational-wave signals from sBHB mergers are recorded in the LVK…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Krystal Ruiz-Rocha , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Karan Jani , Michela Mapelli , Samuel Dunham , William Gabella

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments worldwide recently reported evidence of a nHz stochastic gravitational wave background (sGWB) compatible with the existence of slowly inspiralling massive black hole (MBH) binaries (MBHBs). The shape of…

Joint gravitational-wave detections of stellar-mass black-hole binaries by ground- and space-based observatories will provide unprecedented opportunities for fundamental physics and astronomy. We present a semianalytic method to estimate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Davide Gerosa , Sizheng Ma , Kaze W. K. Wong , Emanuele Berti , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Yanbei Chen , Krzysztof Belczynski

We study the impact of gas accretion on the orbital evolution of black-hole binaries initially at large separation in the band of the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We focus on two sources: (i)~stellar-origin black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-15 Andrea Caputo , Laura Sberna , Alexandre Toubiana , Stanislav Babak , Enrico Barausse , Sylvain Marsat , Paolo Pani

With the upcoming space- and Moon-based gravitational-wave detectors, LISA and LGWA respectively, a new era of GW astronomy will begin with the possibility of detections of the mergers of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) and…

We present our analysis of a set of populations of massive black hole (MBH) binaries generated in the recent semi-analytic model of galaxy evolution (SHARK). We focus on studying gravitational wave (GW) emission produced during MBH mergers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Małgorzata Curyło , Tomasz Bulik

We investigate the precision with which the parameters describing the characteristics and location of nonspinning black hole binaries can be measured with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). By using complete waveforms including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-16 Sean T. McWilliams , James Ira Thorpe , John G. Baker , Bernard J. Kelly

Many scenarios have been proposed for the origin of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that are found in the centres of most galaxies. Many of these formation scenarios predict a high-redshift population of intermediate-mass black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Joseph E. Plowman , Daniel C. Jacobs , Ronald W. Hellings , Shane L. Larson , Sachiko Tsuruta

Recently it was shown that the inclusion of higher signal harmonics in the inspiral signals of binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) leads to dramatic improvements in parameter estimation with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 K G Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra , Chris Van Den Broeck , B R Iyer , B S Sathyaprakash , Siddhartha Sinha

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) by ground-based laser interferometer GW observatories (LIGO/Virgo) reveals a population of stellar binary black holes (sBBHs) with (total) masses up to $\sim 150M_\odot$, which are potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-01 Ju Chen , Changshuo Yan , Youjun Lu , Yuetong Zhao , Junqiang Ge

We conduct an analysis of the measurement abilities of distinctive LISA detector designs, examining the influence of LISA's low-frequency performance on the detection and characterization of massive black hole binaries. We are particularly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-07 Michael L. Katz , Shane L. Larson

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

The next decade is expected to see the launch of one or more space based gravitational wave detectors: the European lead Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA); and one or more Chinese mission concepts, Taiji and TianQin. One of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Neil J. Cornish

The gravitational wave signals from coalescing Supermassive Black Hole Binaries are prime targets for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). With optimal data processing techniques, the LISA observatory should be able to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Neil J. Cornish , Edward K. Porter

With the launch of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), we will be able to estimate the sky position, luminosity distance (d$_{L}$), chirp mass, and mass ratio for detected merging massive black hole binary (MBHB) systems. LISA's…

One of the scientific objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to probe the expansion of the Universe using gravitational wave observations. Indeed, as gravitational waves from the coalescence of a massive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Alberto Mangiagli , Chiara Caprini , Sylvain Marsat , Lorenzo Speri , Robert R. Caldwell , Nicola Tamanini