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The coalescence of massive black hole (BH) binaries due to galaxy mergers provides a primary source of low-frequency gravitational radiation detectable by pulsar timing measurements and by the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometry Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

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

Multi-band gravitational-wave (GW) standard siren observations are poised to herald a new era in the study of cosmic evolution. These observations offer higher signal-to-noise ratios and improved localizations compared to those achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Yue-Yan Dong , Ji-Yu Song , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The inspiral, merger, and ringdown of Massive Black Hole Binaries (MBHBs) is one the main sources of Gravitational Waves (GWs) for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), an ESA-led mission in the implementation phase. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Iván Martín Vílchez , Carlos F. Sopuerta

In multi-component dark matter models, a fraction $f_\text{pbh}$ of the dark matter could be in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) with (sub)solar masses. Some would have formed binaries that presently trace the Milky Way halo of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 Frans van Die , Ivan Rapoport , Yonadav Barry Ginat , Vincent Desjacques

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with astoundingly high signal-to-noise ratio, leaving parameter estimation with these signals susceptible to seemingly small waveform errors. Of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Sophia Yi , Francesco Iacovelli , Emanuele Berti , Rohit S. Chandramouli , Sylvain Marsat , Digvijay Wadekar , Nicolás Yunes

We present a python based parameter inference system for the gravitational wave (GW) measured in the millihertz band. This system includes the following features: the GW waveform originated from the massive black hole binaries (MBHB), the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Renjie Wang , Bin Hu

We study parameter estimation of supermassive black holes in the range $10^5-10^8\Ms$ by LISA using the inspiral full post-Newtonian gravitational waveforms, and we compare the results with those arising from the commonly used restricted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-27 Miquel Trias , Alicia M. Sintes

The future space-based gravitational wave observatory LISA is expected to detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), ranging up to thousands. Such high-precision observations require accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-15 Tom van der Steen , Henri Inchauspé , Thomas Hertog , Aurélien Hees

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) can constrain the cosmic expansion of the universe. In the absence of an associated electromagnetic counterpart, the spectral sirens method exploits the relation between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Grégoire Pierra , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Stéphane Perriès , Michela Mapelli

Current matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers compare the calibrated detector data to waveform templates that omit the higher-order mode content of the signals predicted by General Relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Koustav Chandra , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Archana Pai , Ian Harry

As gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black holes are becoming a precision tool for physics and astronomy, several subdominant effects in the GW signals need to be accurately modeled. Previous studies have shown that neglecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Praveer Tiwari , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Chandra Kant Mishra , Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith

The gravitational waves (GW) emitted during the coalescence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the mass range 10^4-10^7 M_sun will be detectable out to high redshifts with LISA. We calculate the size and orientation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Kocsis , Z. Frei , Z. Haiman , K. Menou

The propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) at cosmological distances offers a new way to test the gravitational interaction at the largest scales. Many modified theories of gravity, usually introduced to explain the observed acceleration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Maxence Corman , Abhirup Ghosh , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Martin A. Hendry , Sylvain Marsat , Nicola Tamanini

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), set for launch in the mid-2030s, will enhance our capability to probe the universe through gravitational waves (GWs) emitted from binary black holes (BBHs) across a broad range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-08 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

We perform a forecast analysis of the ability of the LISA space-based interferometer to reconstruct the dark sector interaction using gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens at high redshift. We employ Gaussian process methods to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Rong-Gen Cai , Nicola Tamanini , Tao Yang

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri

With the discovery of the black hole binary (BBH) coalescence GW150914 the era of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy has started. It has recently been shown that BBH with masses comparable to or higher than GW150914 would be visible in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-02 Salvatore Vitale

Gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive binary black hole (BBH) inspirals are potentially powerful standard sirens (the GW analog to standard candles) (Schutz 1986, 2002). Because these systems are well-modeled, the space-based GW…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Daniel E. Holz , Scott A. Hughes

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens are well-established probes with which one can measure cosmological parameters, and are complementary to other probes like the cosmic microwave background or supernovae standard candles. Here we focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis