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The gravitational capture of a stellar-mass object by a supermassive black hole represents a unique probe of warped spacetime. The small object, typically a stellar-mass black hole, describes a very large number of cycles before crossing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Pau Amaro Seoane , Yiren Lin , Kostas Tzanavaris

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) show a strong separation of timescales, with the time characterizing inspiral, $T_{\rm i}$, much longer than any time $T_{\rm o}$ characterizing orbital motions. The ratio of these timescales (which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-12 Scott A. Hughes

The detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) is intricate due to their complex waveforms, extended duration, and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), making them more challenging to be identified compared to compact binary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Tianyu Zhao , Yue Zhou , Ruijun Shi , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

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

Extreme mass ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass object merges with a supermassive black hole, are prime sources for space-based gravitational wave detectors because they will facilitate tests of strong gravity and probe the spacetime…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-22 Nicolas Yunes , M. Coleman Miller , Jonathan Thornburg

The inspiral of stellar-mass compact objects, like neutron stars or stellar-mass black holes, into supermassive black holes provides a wealth of information about the strong gravitational-field regime via the emission of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-13 Christopher P. L. Berry , Robert H. Cole , Priscilla Cañizares , Jonathan R. Gair

Extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral (EMRI) is one of the most important sources for the future space-borne gravitational wave detectors. In such kind of systems, the compact objects usually orbit around the central supermassive black holes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Chen Zhang , Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most interesting gravitational wave (GW) sources for space-borne GW detectors. However, successful GW data analysis remains challenging due to many issues, ranging from the difficulty of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Xue-Ting Zhang , Chris Messenger , Natalia Korsakova , Man Leong Chan , Yi-Ming Hu , Jing-dong Zhang

Detecting individual extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) is a major science goal of future space-based gravitational wave observatories such as Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and TianQin. However, matched-filtering can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Lingyuan Ji , Liang Dai

Systems consisting of a massive black hole and a stellar-origin compact object (CO), known as extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are of great significance for space-based gravitational-wave detectors, as they will allow for testing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-06 Hui-Min Fan , Yi-Ming Hu , Enrico Barausse , Alberto Sesana , Jian-dong Zhang , Xuefeng Zhang , Tie-Guang Zi , Jianwei Mei

Orbital resonances in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) have been proven to be a key feature for accurate gravitational-wave template modeling. Decades of research have led to schemes that can not only model the adiabatic inspiral of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Edoardo Levati , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Kyriakos Destounis , Paolo Pani

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources of gravitational waves for space-based detectors such as LISA. However, their detection remains a major data analysis challenge due to the signals' complexity and length. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Lorenzo Speri , Rodrigo Tenorio , Christian Chapman-Bird , Davide Gerosa

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) occur when stellar-mass compact objects begin a gravitational wave (GW) driven inspiral into massive black holes. EMRI waveforms can precisely map the surrounding spacetime, making them a key target for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-27 Ismail Qunbar , Nicholas C. Stone

Recurrence analysis is a well settled method allowing to discern chaos from order, and determinism from noise. We apply this tool to study time series representing geodesic and inspiraling motion of a test particle in a deformed Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-24 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Ondřej Kopáček

Even if globally neutral, in various scenarios compact objects can have a nonvanishing dipole moment. Examples include neutron stars with magnetic dipoles, black-hole microstates in the string-theory fuzzball scenario, and classical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Jacopo Lestingi , Enrico Cannizzaro , Paolo Pani

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

Inspirals of stellar mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are known as extreme mass ratio inspirals. In the simplest approximation, the motion of the compact object is modeled as a geodesic in the space-time of the massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-22 Ondřej Zelenka , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Vojtěch Witzany , Ondřej Kopáček

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), comprising a stellar-mass compact object (CO) orbiting a supermassive black hole (BH), are key targets for future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. Incorporating the spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Qiuxin Cui , Wen-Biao Han

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the key targets for future space-based gravitational wave detectors. The gravitational waveforms emitted by EMRIs are highly sensitive to the orbital dynamics of the small compact object, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-08 Soroush Zare , Tao Zhu , Luis M. Nieto , Shuo Lu , Hassan Hassanabadi

We investigate the orbital dynamics and gravitational wave signatures of neutral Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) in the spacetime of a Kerr black hole immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field, described by the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Xiang-Qian Li , Hao-Peng Yan , Xiao-Jun Yue