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We study eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) into scalar clouds formed through superradiant instabilities, within a fully relativistic perturbative framework. While previous relativistic analyses were limited to circular motion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Qi-Xuan Xu , Richard Brito , Riccardo Della Monica , Rodrigo Vicente , Chen Yuan

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

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

The space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to observe the gravitational-wave signals from systems comprised of a massive black hole and a stellar-mass compact object. These systems are known as extreme-mass-ratio…

Dark matter (DM) search is one of the greatest challenges in physics. If DM consists of particles, it may form a spike around supermassive black holes (BH) prevalent in galaxy centers. This spike could be potentially observed by altering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Takafumi Kakehi , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takuya Takahashi , Takahiro Tanaka

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

One of the sources of gravitational waves for the proposed space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), are the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan R. Gair , Christopher Tang , Marta Volonteri

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), stellar-mass compact objects (SCOs) inspiralling into a massive black hole, are one of the main sources of gravitational waves expected for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To extract the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

The gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), a key target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will be affected in the presence of dark matter (DM) halos. In this paper we explore whether the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Sara Gliorio , Emanuele Berti , Andrea Maselli , Nicholas Speeney

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), namely binary systems composed of a massive black hole and a compact stellar-mass object, are anticipated to be among the gravitational wave (GW) sources detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-23 Chang Liu , Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini

The inspirals of compact objects into massive black holes are some of the most exciting of the potential sources of gravitational waves for the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Observations of such extreme mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Jonathan R Gair

Intermediate/Extreme mass ratio inspiral (I/EMRI) system provides a good tool to test the nature of gravity in strong field. Based on the method of osculating orbits, we compute the orbital evolutions of I/EMRIs on quasi-elliptic orbits in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Tong Jiang , Ning Dai , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Chao Zhang

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), consisting of a secondary (stellar mass) black hole (BH) orbiting around a supermassive BH, are one of the primary targets for future spaceborne gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The spin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-23 Qiuxin Cui , Wen-Biao Han , Zhen Pan

An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

We investigate extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) around a rotating Hayward black hole to assess the detectability of signatures arising from quantum gravity.The quantum parameter $\alpha_0$, which encodes deviations from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Dan Zhang , Chao Zhang , Qiyuan Pan , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu

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

Gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are a key observational target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The waveforms may be affected by the astrophysical environment surrounding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Soumodeep Mitra , Nicholas Speeney , Sumanta Chakraborty , Emanuele Berti

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

Extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) events are vulnerable to perturbations by the stellar background, which can abort them prematurely by deflecting EMRI orbits to plunging ones that fall directly into the massive black hole (MBH), or to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Tal Alexander

Gravitational wave (GW) detector LISA will observe near-coalescence extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), which typically form in galactic central accretion disks. Gas torques on EMRI will alter its GW-driven inspiral trajectory from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-24 Mudit Garg , Lucio Mayer , Yinhao Wu , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Douglas N. C. Lin
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