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Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a compact object orbits a massive black hole, are a key source of gravitational waves for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Due to their small mass ratio, ($\epsilon \sim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Philip Lynch , Vojtěch Witzany , Maarten van de Meent , Niels Warburton

The gravitational-wave (GW) inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects onto a supermassive black hole (MBH), are some of the most promising GW sources detectable by next-generation space-born GW-detectors. The rates and characteristics of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-05 Yael Raveh , Hagai B. Perets

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

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), consisting of a stellar-mass black hole orbiting a supermassive black hole, are among the primary targets for future space-based gravitational wave detectors. By analyzing the emitted gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Li Huang

We investigate the imprints of chaos in gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals configuration, where a stellar massive object, confined in a harmonic potential, orbits a supermassive Schwarzschild-like black hole embedded in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Surajit Das , Surojit Dalui , Bum-Hoon Lee , Yi-Fu Cai

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

The discovery of gravitational waves and black holes has started a new era of gravitational wave astronomy that allows us to probe the underpinning features of gravity and astrophysics in extreme environments of the universe. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Two recent papers\citep{xmri1, xmri2} revealed that in our Galaxy there are very extreme-mass-ratio inspirals composed by brown dwarfs and the supermassive black hole at the center of the Galaxy. The event rates estimated in these papers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-22 Wen-Biao Han , Xing-Yu Zhong , Xian Chen , Shuo Xin

The past year has seen numerous publications underlining the importance of a space mission to the ice giants in the upcoming decade. Proposed mission plans involve a $\sim$10 year cruise time to the ice giants. This cruise time can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Deniz Soyuer , Lorenz Zwick , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Prasenjit Saha

An extreme mass ratio inspiral takes place when a compact stellar object is inspiraling into a supermassive black hole due to gravitational radiation reaction. Gravitational waves (GWs) from this system can be calculated using the Teukolsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Viktor Skoupý , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

This paper evaluates the potential for constraining the quantum scale parameter $\xi$ of regular black hole within the asymptotically safe gravity framework using gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Since $\xi$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

Constituted with a massive black hole and a stellar mass compact object, Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI) events hold unique opportunity for the study of massive black holes, such as by measuring and checking the relations among the mass,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-06 Tie-Guang Zi , Jian-dong Zhang , Hui-Min Fan , Xue-Ting Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu , Changfu Shi , Jianwei Mei

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most exciting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen , Jonathan Gair

Supermassive black hole binaries are one of the primary targets for gravitational wave searches using pulsar timing arrays. Gravitational wave signals from such systems are well represented by parametrized models, allowing the standard…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-25 Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty , Fredrick A. Jenet

Gravitational waves from inspiraling sub-solar mass compact objects would provide almost definitive evidence for the existence of primordial black holes. In this chapter, we explain why these exotic objects are interesting candidates for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Andrew L. Miller

The eccentricity of binary black-hole mergers is predicted to be an indicator of the history of their formation. In particular, eccentricity is a strong signature of dynamical formation rather than formation by stellar evolution in isolated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 Eamonn O'Shea , Prayush Kumar

The population study of stellar-mass black hole (sBH) binaries with ground-based gravitational wave detection has achieved tremendous success in recent years. Future observation of extreme mass-ratio inspirals will similarly require proper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Houyi Sun , Ya-Ping Li , Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

One of the primary objectives for space-borne gravitational wave detectors is the detection of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This undertaking poses a substantial challenge because of the complex and long EMRI signals, further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Yi-Yang Guo , He Wang , Minghui Du

We study the detection accuracy of double white dwarfs (DWDs), stellar-mass black hole binaries (SBHBs), light and heavy intermediate mass ratio inspirals (IMRIs), extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), massive black hole binaries (MBHBs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-02 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

The swirling-Kerr black hole is a novel solution of vacuum general relativity and has an extra swirling parameter characterizing the rotation of spacetime background. We have studied the gravitational waves generated by extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Yuhang Gu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing