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Coalescing supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the primary source candidates for low frequency gravitational wave (GW) detections, which could bring us deep insights into galaxy evolutions over cosmic time and violent processes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Minghui Du , Qiong Deng , Yifan Bian , Ziren Luo , Peng Xu

Stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) in galactic nuclei are gravitationally perturbed by the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) of the host galaxy, potentially inducing strong eccentricity oscillations through the eccentric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-21 Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Smadar Naoz , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Bao-Minh Hoang , Evgeni Grishin

Gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole (MBH) mergers will provide a novel way to probe the high-redshift universe and are key to understanding galactic dynamics and evolution. In this work, we analyze MBH mergers, their GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Sourabh Magare , Abhinav Roy , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Nishikanta Khandai , R. Srianand

The coalescence of massive black hole (BH) binaries due to galaxy mergers provides a primary source of low-frequency gravitational radiation detectable by pulsar timing measurements and by the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometry Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments worldwide recently reported evidence of a nHz stochastic gravitational wave background (sGWB) compatible with the existence of slowly inspiralling massive black hole (MBH) binaries (MBHBs). The shape of…

Important scientific discoveries should be backed by high statistical significance. In the 2030s, multiple space-based gravitational wave detectors are expected to operate. While many works aim to achieve quick and reliable detection and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Hong-Yu Chen , En-Kun Li , Yi-Ming Hu

For space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection, the main noise source for massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) is attributed to approximately $10^7$ double white dwarf binaries in the foreground. For a GW source, the amplitude of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-27 Pan Guo , Hong-Bo Jin , Cong-Feng Qiao , Yue-Liang Wu

The dynamical formation of binary black holes (BBHs) in globular clusters (GCs) may contribute significantly to the observed gravitational wave (GW) merger rate. Furthermore, LISA may detect many BBH sources from GCs at mHz frequencies,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Zeyuan Xuan , Kyle Kremer , Smadar Naoz

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 most massive black holes in our Universe form binaries at the centre of merging galaxies. The recent evidence for a gravitational-wave (GW) background from pulsar timing may constitute the first observation that these supermassive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Jakob Stegmann , Lorenz Zwick , Sander M. Vermeulen , Fabio Antonini , Lucio Mayer

Massive black hole binaries, with masses in the range 1E3-1E8 Msun, are expected to be the most powerful sources of gravitational radiation at mHz frequencies, and hence are among the primary targets for the planned Laser Interferometer…

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

Observation of gravitational waves (GWs) in two different frequency bands is referred to as multiband GW astronomy. With the planned Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) operating in the $10^{-4}-0.1$ Hz range, and third generation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Sayantani Datta , Anuradha Gupta , Shilpa Kastha , K. G. Arun , B. S. Sathyaprakash

There may exist stellar-mass binary black holes (BBH) which merge while orbiting nearby a supermassive black hole (SMBH). In such a triple system, the SMBH will modulate the gravitational waveform of the BBH through orbital Doppler shift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Andrew Laeuger , Brian Seymour , Yanbei Chen , Hang Yu

The space-based laser interferometers, LISA, Taiji and TianQin, are targeting to observe milliHz gravitational waves (GWs) in the 2030s. The joint observations from multiple space-based detectors yield significant advantages. In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Bin Hu , Chang Liu , Youjun Lu , Wei-Tou Ni , Wen-Hong Ruan , Naoki Seto , Gang Wang , Yue-Liang Wu

In multi-component dark matter models, a fraction $f_\text{pbh}$ of the dark matter could be in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) with (sub)solar masses. Some would have formed binaries that presently trace the Milky Way halo of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 Frans van Die , Ivan Rapoport , Yonadav Barry Ginat , Vincent Desjacques

Ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories have transformed our view of compact-object mergers, yet their reach still limits a comprehensive reconstruction of the processes that generate these systems. Only next-generation…

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LISA, are expected to detect thousands of Galactic close white dwarf binaries emitting nearly monochromatic GWs. In this study, we demonstrate that LISA is reasonably likely to detect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

According to General Relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) should travel at the speed of light $c$. However, some theories beyond GR predict deviations of the velocity of GWs $c_{\rm gw}$ from $c$, and some of those expect vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Tian-Yong Cao , Shu-Xu Yi

In the Galaxy, close binaries with compact objects are important low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) sources. As potential low-frequency GW sources, neutron star/white dwarf (WD) ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) have been investigated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Ke Qin , Long Jiang , Wen-Cong Chen

The gravitational waves generated during supermassive black hole (SMBH) coalescence are prime candidates for detection by the satellite LISA. We use the extended Press-Schechter formalism combined with empirically motivated estimates for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kirsty J. Rhook , J. Stuart B. Wyithe
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