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We compute gravitational waves from inspiraling stellar-mass compact objects on the equatorial plane of a massive spinning black hole (BH). Our inspiral orbits are computed by taking into account the adiabatic change of orbital parameters…

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We outline a practical scheme for converting between three commonly used sets of phases to describe the trajectories of extreme mass ratio inspirals; quasi-Keplerian angles, Mino time action-angles, and Boyer-Lindquist time action-angles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-15 Philip Lynch , Ollie Burke

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals~(EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Inteferometric Space Antenna~(LISA) are unique probes of astrophysics and fundamental physics. Parameter estimation for these sources is challenging, especially because the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Richard Brito , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

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

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are the most potential sources detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To analyze the influence of higher harmonics on parameter estimation for EMRIs efficiently, we use the waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Chao Zhang , Ning Dai , Dicong Liang

Observations of gravitational-wave signals emitted by compact binary inspirals provide unique insights into their properties, but their analysis requires accurate and efficient waveform models. Intermediate- and extreme-mass-ratio inspirals…

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

We present the state-of-the-art waveform model WaSABI-C for quasicircular inspirals of spinning black hole binaries with aligned or anti-aligned spins. Our model synthesizes the most up-to-date first- and second-order gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Loïc Honet , Josh Mathews , Geoffrey Compère , Adam Pound , Barry Wardell , Gabriel Andres Piovano , Maarten van de Meent , Niels Warburton

Extreme-mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), compact binaries with small mass ratios $\epsilon\ll 1$, will be important sources for low-frequency gravitational wave detectors. Almost all EMRIs will evolve through important transient orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-05 Zachary Nasipak , Charles R. Evans

It is not currently clear how important it will be to include conservative self-force (SF) corrections in the models for extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) waveforms that will be used to detect such signals in LISA (Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-30 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R Gair

The inspiral of stellar-mass compact objects, like neutron stars or stellar-mass black holes, into supermassive black holes provides a wealth of information about the strong gravitational-field regime via the emission of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-13 Christopher P. L. Berry , Robert H. Cole , Priscilla Cañizares , Jonathan R. Gair

In this paper we develop a waveform model that accurately reproduces the dynamical evolution of intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals, as predicted by the effective-one-body (EOB) model introduced in [1], and which enables us to shed some light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-13 E. A. Huerta , Prayush Kumar , Duncan A. Brown

I review the status of research, conducted by a variety of independent groups, aimed at the eventual observation of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) with gravitational wave detectors. EMRIs are binary systems in which one of the objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Steve Drasco

When a stellar-mass compact object is captured by a supermassive black hole located in a galactic centre, the system losses energy and angular momentum by the emission of gravitational waves. Subsequently, the stellar compact object evolves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-28 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We produce gravitational waveforms for nonspinning compact binaries undergoing a quasicircular inspiral. Our approach is based on a two-timescale expansion of the Einstein equations in second-order self-force theory, which allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Jeremy Miller , Leanne Durkan , Alexandre Le Tiec

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are long-duration gravitational-wave sources in which a compact object gradually spirals into a massive black hole. Their formation is governed by the interplay between stochastic angular-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chen Feng , Yong Tang

We investigate extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) around a rotating Hayward black hole to assess the detectability of signatures arising from quantum gravity.The quantum parameter $\alpha_0$, which encodes deviations from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Dan Zhang , Chao Zhang , Qiyuan Pan , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu

We develop a waveform model to describe the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary systems with comparable and intermediate mass-ratios. This model incorporates first-order conservative self-force corrections to the energy and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-11 E. A. Huerta , Prayush Kumar , Jonathan R. Gair , Sean T. McWilliams

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) will be important sources for future space-based gravitational-wave detectors. In recent work, tidal resonances in binary orbital evolution induced by the tidal field of nearby stars or black holes have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Priti Gupta , Béatrice Bonga , Alvin J. K. Chua , Takahiro Tanaka