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We investigate resonance crossings of a charged body moving around a Kerr black hole immersed in an external homogeneous magnetic field. This system can serve as an electromagnetic analogue of a weakly non-integrable extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Sajal Mukherjee , Ondrej Kopacek , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass object orbits a supermassive black hole, are prime sources of millihertz gravitational waves for upcoming space-based detectors. While most studies assume idealized vacuum backgrounds,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Kyriakos Destounis , Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) events are vulnerable to perturbations by the stellar background, which can abort them prematurely by deflecting EMRI orbits to plunging ones that fall directly into the massive black hole (MBH), or to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Tal Alexander

The extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar mass compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies are an important source of low-frequency gravitational waves for space-based detectors. We discuss the prospects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-31 Jonathan R Gair , Edward K Porter

Intermediate mass ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of binary black holes with mass ratios $10^{-4}\lesssim q \lesssim 0.1$ are astrophysically interesting sources of gravitational waves. Mergers of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with…

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most powerful probes of strong-field gravity and of the environments surrounding supermassive compact objects. Motivated by the expected presence of dark matter near galactic centers, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Mubasher Jamil , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The detection of gravitational waves from the inspiral of a neutron star or stellar-mass black hole into an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) promises an entirely new look at strong-field gravitational physics. Gravitational waves from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-29 Carl L. Rodriguez , Ilya Mandel , Jonathan R. Gair

Gravitational wave observations of the inspiral of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes (MBHs), extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), enable precision measurements of parameters such as the MBH mass and spin. The Laser…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird , Christopher P. L. Berry , Graham Woan

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are key sources for the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA, and are considered promising probes of fundamental physics. Here, we present the first complete Bayesian analysis of EMRI…

We study the evolution of eccentric, equatorial extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) immersed in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei. We find that single gravitational-wave observations from these systems could provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-30 Francisco Duque , Shubham Kejriwal , Laura Sberna , Lorenzo Speri , Jonathan Gair

We consider the motion of a particle in the geometry of a Schwarzschild-like black hole embedded in a dark matter (DM) halo with Dehnen type density profile and calculate the orbital periods along with the evolution of the semi-latus rectum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Amjad Ashoorioon , Roberto Casadio , Khadije Jafarzade , Mohammad B. Jahani Poshteh , Orlando Luongo

Using an analytic, static, and spherically symmetric metric for a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a dark matter (DM) halo with the Hernquist-type profile, we derive analytic expressions for the orbital period and precession of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Ning Dai , Yungui Gong , Yang Zhao , Tong Jiang

Extreme mass ratio bursts (EMRBs) have been proposed as a possible source for future space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). These events are characterized by long-period,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Yunes , Carlos F. Sopuerta , Louis J. Rubbo , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

We model the inspiral of a compact stellar-mass object into a massive nonrotating black hole including all dissipative and conservative first-order-in-the-mass-ratio effects on the orbital motion. The techniques we develop allow inspirals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-22 Thomas Osburn , Niels Warburton , Charles R. Evans

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are the most potential sources detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To analyze the influence of higher harmonics on parameter estimation for EMRIs efficiently, we use the waveform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Chao Zhang , Ning Dai , Dicong Liang

We produce the gravitational waveforms for the extreme mass ratio inspiral systems (EMRIs) of binary stars moving around central supermassive black hole (SBH), or called B-EMRIs. We calculate the external orbits of the binary stars via the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Kun Meng , Hongsheng Zhang , Xi-Long Fan , Yuan Yong , Fei Du

We explore the ability of future low-frequency gravitational wave detectors to measure the spin of stellar mass and intermediate mass black holes that inspiral onto super-massive Kerr black holes (SMBHs). We develop a kludge waveform model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair

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

We investigate strong gravitational lensing by a charged loop quantum gravity (LQG) black hole obtained through the polymerisation scheme of Borges \textit{et al.} \cite{Borges:2023fog}. These effective geometries replace the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Arun Kumar , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Sushant G. Ghosh

An expected source of gravitational waves for future detectors in space are the inspirals of small compact objects into much more massive black holes. These sources have the potential to provide a wealth of information about astronomy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan R Gair , Nicolas Yunes , Carl M Bender