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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable precision studies of Extreme and Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs/IMRIs), providing unique probes of astrophysical environments of galactic nuclei and strong-field gravity.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Lorenzo Speri , Francisco Duque , Susanna Barsanti , Alessandro Santini , Shubham Kejriwal , Ollie Burke , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird

We extend the Ori and Thorne (OT) procedure to compute the transition from an adiabatic inspiral into a geodesic plunge for any spin, with emphasis on near-extremal ones. Our analysis revisits the validity of the approximations made in OT.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Ollie Burke , Jonathan R. Gair , Joan Simón

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass compact object spirals into a supermassive black hole, are prime candidates for detection with space-borne milliHertz gravitational wave detectors, similar to the Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-15 Jonathan R. Gair , Nicolas Yunes

Ultralight bosons, proposed as candidates for dark matter (DM), are predicted by various new physics models. In the presence of bosons with suitable masses, superradiant (SR) instability can naturally transform a spinning black hole (BH)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Yan Cao , Ya-Ze Cheng , Gen-Liang Li , Yong Tang

Spin-1/2 particles can be used to study inertial and gravitational effects by means of interferometers, particle accelerators, and ultimately quantum systems. These studies require, in general, knowledge of the Hamiltonian and of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Singh , G. Papini

This work elaborates on a detailed analysis of the novel characteristics of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) within the framework of modified gravity (MOG). Our study begins by exploring the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-20 Xiongying Qiao , Zhong-Wu Xia , Qiyuan Pan , Hong Guo , Wei-Liang Qian , Jiliang Jing

We present the first orbit-integrated self force effects on the gravitational waveform for an I(E)MRI source. We consider the quasi-circular motion of a particle in the spacetime of a Schwarzschild black hole and study the dependence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-28 Kristen A. Lackeos , Lior M. Burko

We develop and implement a new hybrid waveform model for quasicircular inspirals with a spinning primary and nonspinning secondary, excluding the merger and ringdown. This model, which is a core component of the more extensive WaSABI-C…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Loïc Honet , Adam Pound , Geoffrey Compère

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

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are promising gravitational-wave (GW) sources for space-based GW detectors. EMRI signals typically have long durations, ranging from several months to several years, necessitating highly accurate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-27 Lu-Jia Xu , Shu-Cheng Yang , Wen-Biao Han , Xing-Yu Zhong , Run-Dong Tang , Yuan-Hao Zhang

A key source for LISA will be the inspiral of compact objects into supermassive black holes. Recently Mino has shown that in the adiabatic limit, gravitational waveforms for these sources can be computed using for the radiation reaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Eanna E. Flanagan , Scott A. Hughes

Although the gravitational waves observed by advanced LIGO and Virgo are consistent with compact binaries in a quasi-circular inspiral prior to coalescence, eccentric inspirals are also expected to occur in Nature. Due to their complexity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Blake Moore , Travis Robson , Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

We intend to develop part of the theoretical tools needed for the detection of gravitational waves coming from the capture of a compact object, 1-100 solar masses, by a Supermassive Black Hole, up to a 10 billion solar masses, located at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-11 Alessandro Spallicci , Patxi Ritter , Sylvain Jubertie , Stèphane Cordier , Sofiane Aoudia

We provide ready-to-use time-domain gravitational waveforms for spinning compact binaries with precession effects through 1.5PN order in amplitude and compute their mode decomposition using spin-weighted -2 spherical harmonics. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 K. G. Arun , Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye , Evan Ochsner

We show that transient resonances occur in the two body problem in general relativity, in the highly relativistic, extreme mass-ratio regime for spinning black holes. These resonances occur when the ratio of polar and radial orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Eanna E. Flanagan , Tanja Hinderer

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

We consider the problem of searching for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral phase of binary systems when the orbital plane precesses due to relativistic spin-orbit coupling. Such effect takes place when the spins of the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Grandclement , V. Kalogera , A. Vecchio

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are compact binary systems characterized by a mass-ratio $q=m/M$ in the range $~10^{-9}-10^{-4}$ and represent primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space…

Mini-extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (mini-EMRIs), composed of a stellar-mass compact object and a much lighter companion, are promising sources of continuous gravitational waves in the frequency band of ground-based interferometers such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Zi-Xuan Wang , Gong Cheng , Ju Chen , Huai-Ke Guo , Andrew L. Miller

We explore the ability of future low-frequency gravitational wave detectors to measure the spin of stellar mass and intermediate mass black holes that inspiral onto super-massive Kerr black holes (SMBHs). We develop a kludge waveform model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair