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The population study of stellar-mass black hole (sBH) binaries with ground-based gravitational wave detection has achieved tremendous success in recent years. Future observation of extreme mass-ratio inspirals will similarly require proper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Houyi Sun , Ya-Ping Li , Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

The nature and properties of dark matter (DM) are both outstanding issues in physics. Besides clustering in halos, the universal character of gravity implies that self-gravitating compact DM configurations might be spread throughout the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Caio F. B. Macedo , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Luis C. B. Crispino

Within a generally covariant Hamiltonian framework of loop quantum gravity (LQG), two black hole models parameterized by a quantum correction $\zeta$ have recently been constructed. Using extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Ruo-Ting Chen , Guoyang Fu , Dan Zhang , Jian-Pin Wu

The measurement of multipole moments of astrophysical objects through gravitational wave (GW) observations provides a novel way to distinguish black holes from other astrophysical objects. This paper studies the gravitational wave radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Mostafizur Rahman , Arpan Bhattacharyya

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR) in the highly dynamical, strong-field regime. So far, the majority of the tests of GR with GW signals have been carried out following parametrized,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Félix-Louis Julié , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno

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

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes constitute some of the most important sources for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally intractable, so…

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

Pulsars of very different types - isolated objects, and binaries with short- and long-period orbits, white-dwarf and neutron-star companions - provide the means to test both the predictions of general relativity and the viability of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ingrid H. Stairs

We study the dynamics of a hierarchical three-body system in the general-relativistic regime: an extreme mass-ratio inner binary under the tidal influence of an external body. The inner binary consists of a central Schwarzschild black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Huan Yang , Marc Casals

Is the graviton massless? This problem was addressed in the literature at a phenomenological level, using modified dispersion relations for gravitational waves, in linearized calculations around flat space. Here, we perform a detailed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Vitor Cardoso , Gonçalo Castro , Andrea Maselli

Studies regarding extra-dimensions have been of great interest in modern theoretical physics, including their observational consequences from future gravitational wave (GW) observatories. In this direction, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Shailesh Kumar , Tieguang Zi , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We study whether binary black hole template banks can be used to search for the gravitational waves emitted by general binary coalescences. To recover binary signals from noisy data, matched-filtering techniques are typically required. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Horng Sheng Chia , Thomas D. P. Edwards

The swirling-Kerr black hole is a novel solution of vacuum general relativity and has an extra swirling parameter characterizing the rotation of spacetime background. We have studied the gravitational waves generated by extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Yuhang Gu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The largest part of any gravitational-wave inspiral of a compact binary can be understood as a slow, adiabatic drift between the trajectories of a certain referential conservative system. In many contexts, the phase space of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-23 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Vojtěch Witzany

We describe progress evolving an important limit of binary orbits in general relativity, that of a stellar mass compact object gradually spiraling into a much larger, massive black hole. These systems are of great interest for gravitational…

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

Wet extreme mass-ratio inspirals (wet EMRIs), which arise from stellar-mass black holes inspiral into supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the gas-rich environments of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), are primary sources of gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhenwei Lyu , Zhen Pan , Junjie Mao , Ning Jiang , Huan Yang

We investigate extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in which a stellar-mass compact object orbits a supermassive bosonic dark matter star, modeled as a boson star, using fully relativistic perturbative methods. Unlike inspirals around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Caio F. B. Macedo , Haroldo C. D. Lima , Raissa F. P. Mendes , Rodrigo Vicente , Vitor Cardoso

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

Inspirals of stellar mass compact objects into massive black holes are an important source for future gravitational wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and LISA. Detection of these sources and extracting information from the signal relies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-20 Tanja Hinderer , Eanna E. Flanagan