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Joint gravitational-wave detections of stellar-mass black-hole binaries by ground- and space-based observatories will provide unprecedented opportunities for fundamental physics and astronomy. We present a semianalytic method to estimate…

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The possible formation of stellar-mass binary black holes through dynamical interactions in dense stellar environments predicts the existence of binaries with non-negligible eccentricity in the frequency band of ground-based gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-19 Antoni Ramos-Buades , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Maria Haney , Sascha Husa

Globular clusters (GCs) are crucial for studying stellar dynamics and galactic structure, yet precise measurements of their distances and masses are often limited by uncertainties in electromagnetic (EM) observations. We present a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Jie Wu , Yao Xiao , Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

Unveiling the origin of the coalescing binaries detected via gravitational waves (GW) is challenging, notably if no multi-wavelength counterpart is detected. One important diagnostic tool is the coalescing binary distribution with respect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 F. Calore , A. Cuoco , T. Regimbau , S. Sachdev , P. D. Serpico

Understanding the formation and evolution of the stellar-mass binary black holes discovered by LIGO and Virgo is a challenge that spans many areas of astrophysics, from stellar evolution, dynamics and accretion disks, to possible exotic…

An enormous number of compact binary systems, spanning from stellar to supermassive levels, emit substantial gravitational waves during their final evolutionary stages, thereby creating a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-05 Zhencheng Li , Zhen Jiang , Xi-Long Fan , Yun Chen , Liang Gao , Qi Guo , Shenghua Yu

Most gravitational wave (GW) events observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are consistent with mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) on quasi-circular orbits. However, some events are also consistent with non-zero orbital eccentricity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Divyajyoti , Sumit Kumar , Snehal Tibrewal , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Chandra Kant Mishra

We assess the possibility of detecting both eccentricity and gas effects (migration and accretion) in the gravitational wave (GW) signal from LISA massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at redshift $z=1$. Gas induces a phase correction to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-16 Mudit Garg , Andrea Derdzinski , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Jonathan Gair , Lucio Mayer

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the nanohertz (nHz) regime, detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), provides a promising probe of the cosmic population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These binaries…

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) have not been detected beyond any reasonable doubt through either dynamical or accretion signatures. Gravitational waves (GWs) represent an unparalleled opportunity to survey the sky and detect mergers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Giacomo Fragione , Abraham Loeb

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) found in the centers of many galaxies have been recognized to play a fundamental active role in the cosmological structure formation process. In hierarchical formation scenarios, SMBHs are expected to form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Alberto Sesana , Loren Hoffman , Matthew Benacquista , Christoph Eichhorn , Junichiro Makino , Rainer Spurzem

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

The mergers of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are key drivers of galaxy evolution, contributing to the growth of both galaxies and their central black holes. Current and upcoming gravitational wave (GW) detectors -- Pulsar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Yun Fang , Rong-Gen Cai

We investigate the detectability of single-event coalescing black hole binaries with total mass of $100-600 M_{\odot}$ at cosmological distances ($5 \lesssim z \lesssim 20$) with the next generation of terrestrial gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-30 Stephen Fairhurst , Cameron Mills , Monica Colpi , Raffaella Schneider , Alberto Sesana , Alessandro Trinca , Rosa Valiante

It remains an open question whether the binary black hole mergers observed with gravitational-wave detectors originate from the evolution of isolated massive binary stars or were dynamically driven by perturbations from the environment.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Jakob Stegmann , Davide Gerosa , Isobel Romero-Shaw , Giulia Fumagalli , Hiromichi Tagawa , Lorenz Zwick

The scientific aim of the space gravitational wave (GW) detector Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) that was scheduled to launch in the early 2030s is to detect the low-frequency GW signals in the Galaxy. Its main candidate GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Wen-Cong Chen

Gravitational-wave (GW) dark sirens provide an independent probe of the cosmic expansion history. Their cosmological constraining power, however, depends critically on precise luminosity-distance measurements and sky localizations for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Ji-Yu Song , Yue-Yan Dong , Shang-Jie Jin , Si-Ren Xiao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

A likely source of a gravitational-wave background (GWB) in the frequency band of the Advanced LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors is the superposition of signals from the population of unresolvable stellar-mass binary-black-hole (BBH) mergers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Jessica Lawrence , Kevin Turbang , Andrew Matas , Arianna I. Renzini , Nick van Remortel , Joseph D. Romano

A single space-based gravitational wave detector will push the boundaries of astronomy and fundamental physics. Having a network of two or more detectors would significantly improve source localization. Here we consider how dual networks of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Kevin J. Shuman , Neil J. Cornish

The events detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA collaboration over a period of 10 years have yielded a treasure trove of signals from compact binary coalescences. None of these events have shown a confident signature of eccentricity. With…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Johann Fernandes , Praveer Tiwari , Archana Pai