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LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly $(0.03 - 0.1) {\rm mHz} \lesssim f \lesssim 0.1 {\rm Hz}$. This is expected to be an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Scott A. Hughes

In the hierarchical paradigm of galaxy formation, central massive black holes (MBHs) are expected to coalesce after the merger of their host galaxies. One of the main goals of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to constrain…

Reconstructing the properties of the astrophysical population of binary compact objects in the universe is a key science goal of gravitational wave detectors. This goal is hindered by the finite strain, frequency sensitivity and observing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-21 Jam Sadiq , Kallol Dey , Thomas Dent , Enrico Barausse

Coalescence of two massive black holes is the strongest and most promising source for LISA. In fact, gravitational signal from the end of inspiral and merger will be detectable throughout the Universe. In this article we describe the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanislav Babak

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational-wave (GW) signals from merging supermassive black holes (BHs) with masses below $10^7$~M$_{\odot}$. It is thus of paramount importance to understand the orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Fazeel M. Khan , Pedro R. Capelo , Lucio Mayer , Peter Berczik

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) guarantees the detection of gravitational waves by monitoring a handful of known nearby galactic binary systems, the so-called ``verification binaries''. We consider the most updated information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Stroeer , A. Vecchio

We present a novel machine learning framework tailored to detect massive black hole binaries observed by spaceborne gravitational wave detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and predict their future merger times. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Niklas Houba , Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Domenico Giardini

If binary intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; with masses between 100 and $10^4 \Msun$) form in dense stellar clusters, their inspiral will be detectable with the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) out to several Gpc. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Cole Miller , Marc Freitag

Disentangling the rich astrophysical structure of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from its cosmological component is essential for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to access the physics of the early Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Mesut Çalışkan , Neha Anil Kumar , Marc Kamionkowski , Sihao Cheng

New concepts for observing the gravitational waves (GWs) using a detector on the Moon, such as the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (LGWA), have gained increasing attention. By utilizing the Moon as a giant antenna, the LGWA is expected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-07 Hanlin Song , Han Yan , Yacheng Kang , Xian Chen , Junjie Zhao , Lijing Shao

A key science target of the Large Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to carry out multi-messenger observations of massive black hole binaries, observing the merger simultaneously in gravitational waves and with electromagnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Gareth Cabourn Davies , Ian Harry

By listening to gravity in the low frequency band, between 0.1 mHz and 1 Hz, the future space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA will be able to detect tens of thousands of astrophysical sources from cosmic dawn to the present. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Quentin Baghi , Ira Thorpe , Jacob Slutsky , John Baker , Tito Dal Canton , Natalia Korsakova , Nikos Karnesis

We propose that stellar-mass binary black holes like GW150914 will become a tool to explore the local Universe within ~100Mpc in the era of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). High calibration accuracy and annual motion of LISA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Koutarou Kyutoku , Naoki Seto

We present a semi analytic forecast for the detection of intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) binaries with the space based detectors LISA (millihertz band) and AMIGO (deci hertz band). A redshift dependent population model is built from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Marcelo M. Lapola , Oswaldo D. Miranda

The LISA Parameter Estimation (LISAPE) Taskforce was formed in September 2007 to provide the LISA Project with vetted codes, source distribution models, and results related to parameter estimation. The Taskforce's goal is to be able to…

This article is an introduction for the nonpractitioner to the ideas and issues of LISA data analysis, as reflected in the explorations and experiments of the participants in the Mock LISA Data Challenges. In particular, I discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-27 Michele Vallisneri

We compute the expected low-frequency gravitational wave signal from coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries at the center of galaxies. We follow the merging history of halos and associated holes via cosmological Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sesana , F. Haardt , P. Madau , M. Volonteri

The recent evidence of a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the nHz band by pulsar-timing array (PTA) experiments has shed new light on the formation and evolution of massive black hole binaries with masses $\sim 10^8$--$10^9…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-27 Enrico Barausse , Kallol Dey , Marco Crisostomi , Akshay Panayada , Sylvain Marsat , Soumen Basak

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational wave signals from ~100 extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. The long duration and large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R Gair , Ilya Mandel , Linqing Wen

The coalescence of a compact object with a $10^{4}-10^{7} {\rm M_\odot}$ supermassive black hole (SMBH) produces mHz gravitational waves (GWs) detectable by the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). If such an inspiral occurs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-14 A. Derdzinski , D. D'Orazio , P. Duffell , Z. Haiman , A. MacFadyen