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Primordial black hole (PBH), which can be naturally produced in the early universe, remains a promising dark matter candidate . It can merge with a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the center of a galaxy and generate gravitational wave…

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The continuous improvement in localization errors (sky position and distance) in real time as LISA observes the gradual inspiral of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary can be of great help in identifying any prompt electromagnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bence Kocsis , Zoltán Haiman , Kristen Menou , Zsolt Frei

We present a detailed analysis of the expected signal-to-noise ratios of supermassive black hole binaries on eccentric orbits observed by pulsar timing arrays. We derive several analytical relations that extend the results of Peters and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-11 E. A. Huerta , Sean T. McWilliams , Jonathan R. Gair , Stephen R. Taylor

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be capable of detecting gravitational waves (GWs) in the milli-Hertz band. Among various sources, LISA will detect the coalescence of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). Accurate and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Abhishek Sharma , Anand S. Sengupta , Suvodip Mukherjee

The advent of multimessenger cosmology, marked by the detection of GW170817, demonstrated that standard sirens are a valuable cosmological probe. In the absence of an electromagnetic counterpart identification, gravitational waves carry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 V. Alfradique , C. R. Bom , T. Castro

The detection of orbital eccentricity for a binary black hole system via gravitational waves is a key signature to distinguish between the possible binary origins. The identification of eccentricity has been difficult so far due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 H. L. Iglesias , J. Lange , I. Bartos , S. Bhaumik , R. Gamba , V. Gayathri , A. Jan , R. Nowicki , R. O'Shaughnessy , D. Shoemaker , R. Venkataramanan , K. Wagner

Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into $\sim 10^6 M_{\odot}$ black holes are especially interesting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. We investigate whether the emitted waveforms can be used to strongly constrain the geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Leor Barack , Curt Cutler

The advent of gravitational wave (GW) and multi-messenger astronomy has stimulated the research on the formation mechanisms of binary black holes (BBHs) observed by LIGO/Virgo. In literature, the progenitors of these BBHs could be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Fan Huang , Qing-Guo Huang

We investigate the capability of various configurations of the space interferometer eLISA to probe the late-time background expansion of the universe using gravitational wave standard sirens. We simulate catalogues of standard sirens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-09 Nicola Tamanini , Chiara Caprini , Enrico Barausse , Alberto Sesana , Antoine Klein , Antoine Petiteau

Precise measurement of the Hubble parameter will enable stringent tests of the standard model for cosmology. Standard sirens, using the luminosity distances measured by gravitational-wave observations of compact binary mergers, are expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Alberto Salvarese , Hsin-Yu Chen , Alberto Mangiagli , Nicola Tamanini

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

The origin and formation of stellar-mass binary black holes remains an open question that can be addressed by precise measurements of the binary and orbital parameters from their gravitational-wave signal. Such binaries are expected to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Alice Bonino , Rossella Gamba , Patricia Schmidt , Alessandro Nagar , Geraint Pratten , Matteo Breschi , Piero Rettegno , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We investigate the effect of spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings on the estimation of parameters for inspiralling compact binaries of massive black holes, and for neutron stars inspiralling into intermediate-mass black holes, using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Emanuele Berti , Alessandra Buonanno , Clifford M. Will

One approach to testing general relativity (GR) introduces free parameters in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion of the gravitational-wave (GW) phase. If systematic errors on these testing GR (TGR) parameters exceed the statistical errors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-14 Pankaj Saini , Sajad A. Bhat , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun

Captures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) by massive ($\sim 10^6 M_\odot$) black holes (MBHs) are potentially an important source for LISA, the proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. The orbits of the inspiraling COs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Leor Barack , Curt Cutler

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

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations reported evidence of a nano-Hz stochastic gravitational wave background (sGWB) compatible with an adiabatically inspiraling population of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). Despite the large…

Many gravitational wave (GW) sources are expected to have non-negligible eccentricity in the millihertz band. These highly eccentric compact object binaries may commonly serve as a progenitor stage of GW mergers, particularly in dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Erez Michaely

Eccentricity has emerged as a potentially useful tool for helping to identify the origin of black hole mergers. However, owing to the large number of harmonics required to compute the amplitude of an eccentric signal, eccentric templates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Lisa Randall , Alexandra Shelest , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with masses in the range 10^4-10^7 M_sun/(1+z), produced in galaxy mergers, are thought to complete their coalescence due to the emission of gravitational waves (GWs). The anticipated detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zoltán Haiman , Bence Kocsis , Kristen Menou , Zoltán Lippai , Zsolt Frei