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We study binary systems in which a stellar mass compact object spirals into a massive black hole, known as extreme mass ratio inspirals, in scenarios with a new fundamental scalar field. Earlier work has shown that, in most interesting such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Susanna Barsanti , Nicola Franchini , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli , Thomas P. Sotiriou

A binary extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (b-EMRI) is a hierarchical triple system consisting of a stellar-mass binary black hole (BBH) orbiting a central Kerr supermassive black hole (SMBH). Although predicted by several astrophysical models,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Yucheng Yin , Josh Mathews , Alvin J. K. Chua , Xian Chen

We study the influence of the loop quantum gravity (LQG) holonomy-correction parameter $\xi$ on black hole horizon structure, timelike geodesic motion, and gravitational wave emission in two rotating LQG-inspired black hole spacetimes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Yang Yang , Yu-Xuan Bai , Yong-Zhuang Li , Yu Han

Recently, Contreras et al. \cite{Contreras:2021yxe} introduced a new type of black hole, called hairy Kerr black hole (HKBH), which describes a Kerr BH surrounded by an axially symmetric fluid with conserved energy momentum tensor. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 Tieguang Zi , Peng-Cheng Li

We study extreme mass ratio inspirals occurring in modified gravity, for which the system is modeled by a small compact object with scalar charge spiraling into a supermassive Kerr black hole. Besides the tensorial gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-28 Hong Guo , Yunqi Liu , Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Wei-Liang Qian , Rui-Hong Yue

Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes, known as extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are one of the key targets for upcoming space-based gravitational-wave detectors. In this paper we take the first steps…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-01 Lukáš Polcar , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Vojtěch Witzany

The field of gravitational waves is rapidly progressing due to the noticeable advancements in the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors that has enabled the detection prospects of binary black hole mergers. Extreme mass ratio inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

The future space-based gravitational wave observatories are expected to provide unprecedented opportunities to explore intricate characteristics of black hole binaries, particularly for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Tieguang Zi , Shailesh Kumar

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) -- systems with a compact object orbiting a much more massive (e.g., galactic center) black hole -- are of interest both as a new probe of the environments of galactic nuclei, and their waveforms are a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Makana Silva , Christopher Hirata

We derive the approximate, ``analytic-kludge'' (AK) waveforms for the inspiral of a charged stellar-mass compact object (CO) into a charged massive Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole (BH). The modifications of the inspiral orbit due to the charges…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Tieguang Zi , Ziqi Zhou , Hai-Tian Wang , Peng-Cheng Li , Jian-dong Zhang , Bin Chen

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are important sources for space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Such a source normally consists of a stellar-mass black hole (BH) and a Kerr supermassive BH (SMBH), but recent astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Xian Chen , Zhongfu Zhang

The detection of gravitational waves from Extreme mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) by the future space-based gravitational-wave detectors demands the generation of accurate enough waveform templates. Since the spin of the smaller secondary body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-21 Viktor Skoupý , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

To investigate the imprint on the gravitational-wave emission from extreme mass-ratio inspirals in non-pure Kerr spacetimes, we have studied the ``kludge'' waveforms generated in highly-accurate, numerically-generated spacetimes containing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Enrico Barausse , Luciano Rezzolla , David Petroff , Marcus Ansorg

A mathematically consistent rotating black hole model in loop quantum gravity (LQG) is yet lacking. The scarcity of rotating black hole solutions in LQG substantially hampers the development of testing LQG from observations, e.g., from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Shafqat Ul Islam , Jitendra Kumar , Rahul Kumar Walia , Sushant G. Ghosh

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRI) are one of the most sensitive probes of black hole spacetimes with gravitational wave measurements. In this work, we systematically analyze the dynamics of an EMRI system near orbital resonances, assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang , Laura Bernard , Béatrice Bonga

Suppose a small compact object (black hole or neutron star) of mass $m$ orbits a large black hole of mass $M \gg m$. This system emits gravitational waves (GWs) that have a radiation-reaction effect on the particle's motion. EMRIs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Jonathan Thornburg

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a small compact object inspiralls onto a supermassive black hole, are excellent sources for the space-based laser interferometer gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The presence of dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-10 Chao Zhang , Guoyang Fu , Ning Dai

One of the sources of gravitational waves for the proposed space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), are the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan R. Gair , Christopher Tang , Marta Volonteri

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals, a target source for the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA, are a sensitive probe of fundamental scalar fields coupled to gravity. We assess the capability of LISA to detect whether the secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-19 Matteo Della Rocca , Susanna Barsanti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna are unique probes of the nature of supermassive compact objects. We compute the gravitational-wave signal emitted by a stellar-mass compact object in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Elisa Maggio , Maarten van de Meent , Paolo Pani