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The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen , Jonathan Gair

One of the primary research aims of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is to comprehensively map the Kerr spacetime, a fundamental pursuit in the realm of general relativity. To achieve this goal, it is essential to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Shailesh Kumar

We present the first models of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, focusing on quasi-circular orbits into non-rotating black holes. We show that the phase difference and (Newtonian normalized)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Nicolas Yunes , Alessandra Buonanno , Scott A. Hughes , M. Coleman Miller , Yi Pan

The self-force program aims at accurately modeling relativistic two-body systems with a small mass ratio (SMR). In the context of the effective-one-body (EOB) framework, current results from this program can be used to determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Andrea Antonelli , Maarten van de Meent , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We calculate the evolution and gravitational-wave emission of a spinning compact object inspiraling into a substantially more massive (non-rotating) black hole. We extend our previous model for a non-spinning binary [Phys. Rev. D 93,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Niels Warburton , Thomas Osburn , Charles R. Evans

We investigate the detectability and waveform systematics of sub-solar mass intermediate mass-ratio inspirals (SSM-IMRIs), characterized by mass ratios $q \sim 10^2-10^4$. Using the black hole perturbation theory surrogate model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Devesh Giri , Bhooshan Gadre

Given the multi-frequency nature of relativistic orbits, transient orbital resonances are expected to be ubiquitous during an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI). At a resonance, the orbital dynamics is modified in a nontrivial way,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Edoardo Levati , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño

The inspiral of a compact object into a black hole is a key source of low - frequency gravitational waves for future space-based detectors like LISA. While models of this process have advanced considerably, they typically focus on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 John Adrian N. Villanueva , Ian Vega

When we calculate gravitational waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by metric perturbation, it is a common strategy to use the adiabatic approximation. Under that approximation, we first calculate the linear metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yasushi Mino

An expected source of gravitational waves for future detectors in space are the inspirals of small compact objects into much more massive black holes. These sources have the potential to provide a wealth of information about astronomy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan R Gair , Nicolas Yunes , Carl M Bender

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) occur when a compact object orbits a much larger one, like a solar-mass black hole around a supermassive black hole. The orbit has 3 frequencies which evolve through the inspiral. If the orbital radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-16 C. P. L. Berry , R. H. Cole , P. Cañizares , J. R. Gair

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), consisting of a secondary (stellar mass) black hole (BH) orbiting around a supermassive BH, are one of the primary targets for future spaceborne gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-23 Qiuxin Cui , Wen-Biao Han , Zhen Pan

The transition motion of a point particle around the last stable orbit of Kerr is described at leading order in the transition-timescale expansion. Taking systematically into account all self-force effects, we prove that the transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-17 Geoffrey Compère , Lorenzo Küchler

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRI) are one of the most sensitive probes of black hole spacetimes with gravitational wave measurements. In this work, we systematically analyze the dynamics of an EMRI system near orbital resonances, assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang , Laura Bernard , Béatrice Bonga

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources of gravitational waves for space-based detectors such as LISA. However, their detection remains a major data analysis challenge due to the signals' complexity and length. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Speri , Rodrigo Tenorio , Christian Chapman-Bird , Davide Gerosa

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes, are important gravitational wave sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We study the performance of various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-31 Vijay Varma , Ryuichi Fujita , Ashok Choudhary , Bala R. Iyer

The inspirals of stellar-mass mass compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies are one of the most important sources of gravitational radiation for space-based detectors like LISA or eLISA. These extreme-mass-ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Jonathan R. Gair , Adam Pound , Scott A. Hughes , Carlos F. Sopuerta

Space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA are expected to detect inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. Modeling such inspirals requires fully relativistic computations to achieve sufficient accuracy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Viktor Skoupý , Vojtěch Witzany

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are binary systems where a compact object slowly inspirals into its much larger compact partner. Since we anticipate such systems to exist within and be dynamically influenced by the galactic center…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Makana Silva , Harrison G. Blake-Goszyk , Christopher M. Hirata

In this series we construct an effective field theory (EFT) in curved spacetime to study gravitational radiation and backreaction effects. We begin in this paper with a derivation of the self-force on a compact object moving in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-12 Chad R. Galley , B. L. Hu
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