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We consider the observation of stellar-mass black holes binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Preliminary results based on Fisher information matrix analyses have suggested that gravitational waves from those sources…

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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…

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Gravitational wave events with electromagnetic counterparts provide direct measurements of the Hubble diagram. We demonstrate that incorporating weak lensing into bright standard siren analyses allows measurements of cosmological parameters…

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The continuous improvement in localization errors (sky position and distance) in real time as LISA observes the gradual inspiral of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary can be of great help in identifying any prompt electromagnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bence Kocsis , Zoltán Haiman , Kristen Menou , Zsolt Frei

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) in the low-frequency ($\sim$mHz) band. Low-mass lenses, such as low-mass dark matter halos or subhalos, have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Mesut Çalışkan , Neha Anil Kumar , Lingyuan Ji , Jose M. Ezquiaga , Roberto Cotesta , Emanuele Berti , Marc Kamionkowski

The geosynchronous Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (gLISA) is a space-based gravitational wave (GW) mission that, for the past five years, has been under joint study at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, the National…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Massimo Tinto , Jose' Carlos N. de Araujo

Massive black holes (MBHs) are crucial in shaping their host galaxies. How the MBH co-evolves with its host galaxy is a pressing problem in astrophysics and cosmology. The valuable information carried by the binary MBH is encoded in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Yi Gong , Zhoujian Cao , Junjie Zhao , Lijing Shao

Our current understanding is that an environment - mainly consisting of gas or stars - is required to bring massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with total redshifted mass $M_z\sim[10^{4},10^7]~{\rm M}_\odot$ to the LISA band from parsec…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Mudit Garg , Laura Sberna , Lorenzo Speri , Francisco Duque , Jonathan Gair

In the next decade, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect the coalescence of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) in the range $[10^4, 10^8] \, \rm M_{\odot}$, up to $z\sim10$. Their gravitational wave (GW) signal is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 A. Mangiagli , C. Caprini , M. Volonteri , S. Marsat , S. Vergani , N. Tamanini , H. Inchauspé

Coalescing, massive black-hole (MBH) binaries are the most powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the Universe, which makes MBH science a prime focus for ongoing and upcoming GW observatories. The Laser Interferometer Space…

We present the first joint gravitational-wave cosmological inference with LISA extreme mass-ratio inspirals at $z\lesssim1$ (galaxy redshifts) and massive black hole binaries at $z\gtrsim1$ (electromagnetic counterparts). Combining these…

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I review the scientific potential of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a space-borne gravitational wave (GW) observatory to be launched in the early 30s'. Thanks to its sensitivity in the milli-Hz frequency range, LISA will…

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Spin induced precessional modulations of gravitational wave signals from supermassive black hole binaries can improve the estimation of luminosity distance to the source by space based gravitational wave missions like the Laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Adamantios Stavridis , K. G. Arun , Clifford M. Will

Observations of binary inspirals with LISA will allow us to place bounds on alternative theories of gravity and to study the merger history of massive black holes (MBH). These possibilities rely on LISA's parameter estimation accuracy. We…

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Observations of the gravitational radiation from well-localized, inspiraling compact object binaries can measure absolute source distances with high accuracy. When coupled with an independent determination of redshift through an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Neal Dalal , Daniel E. Holz , Scott A. Hughes , Bhuvnesh Jain

Gravitational-wave (GW) dark sirens provide an independent probe of the cosmic expansion history. Their cosmological constraining power, however, depends critically on precise luminosity-distance measurements and sky localizations for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Ji-Yu Song , Yue-Yan Dong , Shang-Jie Jin , Si-Ren Xiao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Standard sirens (SS) are the gravitational wave analog of the astronomical standard candles, and can provide powerful information about the dynamics of the Universe up to very high $z$ values. In this work, we generate three mock SS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Alireza Allahyari , Rafael C. Nunes , David F. Mota

In this paper, we investigate the expected constraints on the Hubble constant from the gravitational-wave standard sirens, in a cosmological-model-independent way. In the framework of the well-known Hubble law, the GW signal from each…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sixuan Zhang , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian

Gravitational waves (GWs) have provided a new lens through which to view the universe beyond traditional electromagnetic methods. The upcoming space-based gravitational wave mission, Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will give us…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Shaniya Jarrett , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Robert J. Scherrer

We evaluate the cosmological coalescence and detection rates for massive black hole (MBH) binaries targeted by the gravitational wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Our calculation starts with a population of…

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