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Stellar-mass black-hole binaries are the most numerous gravitational-wave sources observed to date. Their properties make them suitable for observation both by ground- and space-based detectors. Starting from synthetic catalogues…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 R. Buscicchio , J. Torrado , C. Caprini , G. Nardini , N. Karnesis , M. Pieroni , A. Sesana

We investigate the intrinsic and observational properties of $z\gtrsim 6$ galaxies hosting coalescing massive black holes (MBHs) that gives rise to gravitational waves (GWs) detectable with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We…

In the Galaxy, close binaries with compact objects are important low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) sources. As potential low-frequency GW sources, neutron star/white dwarf (WD) ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) have been investigated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Ke Qin , Long Jiang , Wen-Cong Chen

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 apply state-of-the-art, likelihood-free statistical inference (machine-learning-based) techniques for reconstructing the spectral shape of a gravitational wave background (GWB). We focus on the reconstruction of an arbitrarily shaped…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Androniki Dimitriou , Daniel G. Figueroa , Bryan Zaldivar

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will be able to detect the inspiral and merger of Super Massive Black Hole Binaries (SMBHBs) anywhere in the Universe. Standard matched filtering techniques can be used to detect and characterize these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Neil J. Cornish , Edward K. Porter

Massive stellar origin black hole binaries (SBHBs), originating from stars above the pair-instability mass gap, are primary candidates for multiband gravitational wave (GW) observations. Here we study the possibility to use them as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Niccolò Muttoni , Alberto Mangiagli , Alberto Sesana , Danny Laghi , Walter Del Pozzo , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Mattia Rosati

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational radiation from a large number of compact binary systems. We present a method by which these signals can be identified and have their parameters estimated. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard Umstätter , Nelson Christensen , Martin Hendry , Renate Meyer , Vimal Simha , John Veitch , Sarah Vigeland , Graham Woan

Binary black holes (BBH) are expected to form and merge in active galactic nuclei (AGN), deep in the potential well of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), from populations that exist in a nuclear star cluster (NSC). Here we investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Jake Postiglione , K. E. Saavik Ford , Henry Best , Barry McKernan , Matthew O'Dowd

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open complementary observational windows on massive black-hole binaries (MBHBs), i.e., with masses in the range $\sim 10^6 - 10^{10}\,$ M$_{\odot}$. While…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is due to launch in the mid-2030s. A key challenge for LISA data analysis is efficient Bayesian inference with parametrised gravitational-wave models, particularly for early inspirals of low-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Jethro Linley

The observability of gravitational waves from supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes by the forecoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and the physics we can learn from the observations, will depend on two basic factors:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy has revolutionized our capacity to explore nature. The next generation of observatories, among which the space-borne detector Laser Interferometer Space Antenna LISA, is expected to yield orders of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-06 Henri Inchauspé , Silvia Gasparotto , Diego Blas , Lavinia Heisenberg , Jann Zosso , Shubhanshu Tiwari

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

The coalescences of massive black hole binaries are one of the main targets of space-based gravitational wave observatories. Such gravitational wave sources are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic emissions. Low latency detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Wen-Hong Ruan , He Wang , Chang Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is being developed by ESA with NASA participation. As it has recently passed the Mission Adoption milestone, models of the instruments and noise performance are becoming more detailed,…

Future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as LISA will detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs), which are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, thereby providing bright standard sirens for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Jia-Hao Zhong , Jin-Zhao Yang , Tao Yang , Xu-Heng Ding , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Bei You

Future space-based laser interferometric detectors, such as LISA, will be able to detect gravitational waves (GWs) generated during the inspiral phase of stellar-mass binary black holes (SmBBHs). The detection and characterization of GWs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Yao Fu , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty

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

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect gravitational wave signals from astrophysical sources, including those from coalescing binary systems of compact objects such as black holes. Colliding galaxies have…

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