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We present a refined estimation of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) based on observed dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) together with AGN X-ray luminosity functions, in light of recent Pulsar Timing Array detections of…

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Accurately estimating the parameters of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background is essential for understanding its origin. The background is typically modeled with a power-law spectrum, parametrized with an amplitude $A$, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Valentina Di Marco , Andrew Zic , Ryan M. Shannon , Eric Thrane , Atharva D. Kulkarni

Binary black-hole systems with spins aligned or anti-aligned to the orbital angular momentum provide the natural ground to start detailed studies of the influence of strong-field spin effects on gravitational wave observations of coalescing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-09 Christian Reisswig , Sascha Husa , Luciano Rezzolla , Ernst Nils Dorband , Denis Pollney , Jennifer Seiler

Cosmological gamma-ray bursts may be powered by rotating black holes with contemporaneous emission of gravitational radiation from a surrounding torus. We calculate the resulting stochastic background radiation assuming strong cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David M. Coward , Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Ronald R. Burman

Stars on eccentric orbits around a massive black hole (MBH) emit bursts of gravitational waves (GWs) at periapse. Such events may be directly resolvable in the Galactic centre. However, if the star does not spiral in, the emitted GWs are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Silvia Toonen , Clovis Hopman , Marc Freitag

The first direct detections of gravitational waves from merging binary black holes open a unique window into the binary black hole formation environment. One promising environmental signature is the angular distribution of the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Will M. Farr , Simon Stevenson , M. Coleman Miller , Ilya Mandel , Ben Farr , Alberto Vecchio

This paper reports a comprehensive study on the gravitational wave (GW) background from compact binary coalescences. We consider in our calculations newly available observation-based neutron star and black hole mass distributions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric J. Howell , David G. Blair , Zong-Hong Zhu

The direct detection of gravitational waves crowns decades of efforts in the modelling of sources and of increasing detectors' sensitivity. With future third-generation Earth-based detectors or space-based observatories, gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Lorenzo Annulli , Laura Bernard , Diego Blas , Vitor Cardoso

Gravitons radiated from light, evaporating black holes contribute to the stochastic background of gravitational waves. The spectrum of such emission depends on both the mass and the spin of the black holes, as well as on the redshifting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Aurora Ireland , Stefano Profumo , Jordan Scharnhorst

Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are binary systems formed by black holes with mass exceeding millions of solar masses, expected to form and evolve in the nuclei of galaxies. The extreme compact nature of such objects determines a loud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Matteo Bonetti , Alessia Franchini , Bruno Giovanni Galuzzi , Alberto Sesana

We study the orbital evolution and gravitational wave (GW) emission of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries formed in gas-free mergers of massive early-type galaxies using the hybrid tree-regularized N-body code KETJU. The evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Matias Mannerkoski , Peter H. Johansson , Pauli Pihajoki , Antti Rantala , Thorsten Naab

The coalescence of massive black hole (MBH) binaries following galaxy mergers is one of the main sources of low-frequency gravitational radiation. A higher-order relativistic phenomenon, the recoil as a result of the non-zero net linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Piero Madau , Eliot Quataert

We model the gravitational-wave background created by double compact objects from isolated binary evolution across cosmic time using the \textbf{\textit{StarTrack}} binary population code. We include population I/II stars as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-10 C. Périgois , C. Belczynski , T. Bulik , T. Regimbau

The inner part of dense clusters of primordial black holes is an active environment where multiple scattering processes take place. Some of them give rise from time to time to bounded pairs, and the rest ends up with a single scattering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-19 Juan García-Bellido , Santiago Jaraba , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

We calculate the expected nHz--$\mu$Hz gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. We consider detection of this spectrum by precision pulsar timing and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew H. Jaffe , Donald C. Backer

In dense stellar regions, highly eccentric binaries of black holes and neutron stars can form through various n-body interactions. Such a binary could emit a significant fraction of its binding energy in a sequence of largely isolated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Kai Sheng Tai , Sean T. McWilliams , Frans Pretorius

Ultralight bosons, which are predicted in a variety of beyond-Standard-Model scenarios as dark-matter candidates, can trigger the superradiant instability around spinning black holes. This instability gives rise to oscillating boson…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-28 Leo Tsukada , Richard Brito , William E. East , Nils Siemonsen

We use large N-body simulations and empirical scaling relations between dark matter halos, galaxies, and supermassive black holes to estimate the formation rates of supermassive black hole binaries and the resulting low-frequency stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-11 Elinore Roebber , Gilbert Holder , Daniel Holz , Michael Warren

Stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a stationary coalescing population of binary neutron stars in the Galaxy is calculated. This background is found to constitute a confusion limit within the LISA frequency band up to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. B. Ignatiev , A. G. Kuranov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

We consider a binary system in the context of screened modified gravity models and investigate its emitted gravitational wave which has been shown that is a hairy wave. We derive power of the gravitational wave and the binding energy of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-31 Matin Honardoost , Nima Khosravi , Nafiseh Rahmanpour