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The ultrahigh frequency emission of gravitational waves by binary systems of black holes has recently been investigated in details in the framework of new experimental ideas around resonant cavities. In this article, we consider the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Pierre Jamet , Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau

The environment surrounding supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei (GNs) is expected to harbour stellar-mass binary black hole (BBH) populations. These binaries were suggested to form a hierarchical triple system with the SMBH,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 László Gondán

Eccentric binary black holes (BBHs) formed through dynamical interactions can significantly contribute to gravitational wave (GW) detections. In this work, we present a simulated catalog of dynamically-formed, stellar-mass BBHs in the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Kyle Kremer , Michael L. Katz , Bence Kocsis , Erez Michaely

Binary black hole (BBH) systems residing in the centers of galaxies evolve within complex astrophysical environments. These environments, comprising dark matter (DM) halos and baryonic accretion disks, can significantly alter the orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Meng Xu , Zhijin Li , Xiao Guo , Yun-Long Zhang

Unlike traditional electromagnetic measurements, gravitational-wave observations are not affected by crowding and extinction. For this reason, compact object binaries orbiting around a massive black hole can be used as probes of the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Kaze W. K. Wong , Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti

We show that under certain astrophysical conditions a binary system consisting of two compact objects can be stabilized against indefinite shrinking of orbits due to the emission of gravitational radiation. In this case, the lighter binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Here we discuss the possibility of super-massive binary black hole (SMBBH) detection, using the shifts of the broad lines emitted from a binary system. We perform a number of simulations of shapes and shifts of $H_{\beta}$ lines emitted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Sasa Simic , Luka C. Popovic

We study the relativistic orbit of binary black holes in systems with small mass ratio. The trajectory of the smaller object (another black hole or a neutron star), represented as a particle, is determined by the geodesic equation on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. O. Lousto

Black-hole (BH) binary mergers driven by gravitational perturbations of tertiary companions constitute an important class of dynamical formation channels for compact binaries detected by LIGO/VIRGO. Recent works have examined numerically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Yubo Su , Dong Lai , Bin Liu

Triple stars and compact objects are ubiquitously observed in nature. Their long-term evolution is complex; in particular, the von-Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai (ZLK) mechanism can potentially lead to highly eccentric encounters of the inner binary.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Abhi Mangipudi , Evgeni Grishin , Alessandro A. Trani , Ilya Mandel

In addition to producing gravitational waves (GW), the dynamics of a binary black hole system could induce emission of electromagnetic (EM) radiation by affecting the behavior of plasmas and electromagnetic fields in their vicinity. We here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-03 Carlos Palenzuela , Matthew Anderson , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , David Neilsen

Black holes in binaries with other compact objects can provide natural venues for indirect detection of axions or other ultralight fields. The superradiant instability associated with a rapidly spinning black hole leads to the creation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-10 Michael Kavic , Steven L. Liebling , Matthew Lippert , John H. Simonetti

To describe a general bound binary black hole system, we need to consider orbital eccentricity and the misalignment of black holes' spin vectors with respect to the orbital angular momentum. While binary black holes produced through many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Amitesh Singh , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Anuradha Gupta , Khun Sang Phukon

Soon after the Gaia data release (DR) 3 in June 2022, some candidates (and one confirmed) of detached black hole (BH) - luminous companion (LC) binaries have been reported. Existing and future detections of astrometric BH-LC binaries will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Minori Shikauchi , Daichi Tsuna , Ataru Tanikawa , Norita Kawanaka

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

With better statistics and precision, eccentricity could prove to be a useful tool for understanding the origin and environment of binary black holes. Hierarchical triples in particular, which might be abundant in globular clusters and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Lisa Randall , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

We use long-run, high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations to compute the multi-wavelength light curves (LCs) from thermal disk emission around accreting equal-mass supermassive black hole (BH) binaries, with a focus on revealing binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-14 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltán Haiman

We analyze the dynamical evolution of binary stars that interact with a static background of single stars in the environment of a massive black hole (MBH). All stars are considered to be single mass, Newtonian point particles. We follow the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Clovis Hopman

Unresolved coalescing binary neutron stars in the Galaxy and beyond produce a stochastic gravitational wave background within the LISA frequency band, which can be potentially dangerous for possible detection of fundamentally more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. B. Ignatiev , A. G. Kuranov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

We present a Bayesian parameter estimation progress to infer the stellar mass binary black hole properties by TianQin, LISA, and TianQin+LISA.Two typical stellar mass black hole binary systems, GW150914 and GW190521 are chosen as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Xiangyu Lyu , En-Kun Li , Yi-Ming Hu