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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational radiation from a large number of compact binary systems. We present a method by which these signals can be identified and have their parameters estimated. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard Umstätter , Nelson Christensen , Martin Hendry , Renate Meyer , Vimal Simha , John Veitch , Sarah Vigeland , Graham Woan

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) within the millihertz frequency range. LISA is anticipated to observe the inspiral of compact objects into black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Stefan H. Strub , Lorenzo Speri , Domenico Giardini

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will play a vital role in constraining the origin and evolution of massive black holes throughout the Universe. In this study we use a waveform model (IMRPhenomXPHM) that includes both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-28 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Hannah Middleton , Alberto Vecchio

We consider the general problem of estimating the inflight LISA noise power spectra and cross-spectra, which are needed for detecting and estimating the gravitational wave signals present in the LISA data. For the LISA baseline design and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre , Massimo Tinto

We fit the data for the binary-lens microlensing event MACHO 98-SMC-1 from 5 different microlensing collaborations and find two distinct solutions characterized by binary separation d and mass ratio q: (d,q)=(0.54,0.50) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Afonso , C. Alcock , S. H. Rhie , A. Udalski et al. , M. Albrow et al.

The planned space-based gravitational wave detector, LISA, will provide a fundamentally new means of studying the orbital alignment of close white dwarf binaries. However, due to the inherent symmetry of their gravitational wave signals, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

White dwarf binaries are the most common compact binaries in the Universe and are especially important for low-frequency gravitational wave detectors such as LISA. There are a number of open questions about binary evolution and the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Nelemans

With the launch of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), we will be able to estimate the sky position, luminosity distance (d$_{L}$), chirp mass, and mass ratio for detected merging massive black hole binary (MBHB) systems. LISA's…

Upcoming space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will be sensitive to extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs and IMRIs). These binaries are comprised of a supermassive…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect a variety of gravitational-wave events, including mergers of massive black hole binaries, stellar-mass black hole inspirals, and extreme mass-ratio inspirals. LISA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Aasim Jan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Lange

We consider a potentially new class of gravitational wave sources consisting of a white dwarf coalescing into a massive black hole in the mass range ~10^4-10^5\msun. These sources are of particular interest because the gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sesana , A. Vecchio , M. Eracleous , S. Sigurdsson

To date more than 3500 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting a large variety of stars. Due to the sensitivity limits of the currently used detection techniques, these planets populate zones restricted either to the solar neighbourhood or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-16 Nicola Tamanini , Camilla Danielski

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

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) defines new demands on data analysis efforts in its all-sky gravitational wave survey, recording simultaneously thousands of galactic compact object binary foreground sources and tens to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alexander Stroeer , John Veitch

Galactic ultra compact binaries are expected to be the dominant source of gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band. Of the tens of millions of galactic binaries with periods shorter than an hour, it is estimated that a few tens…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Tyson Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Kristen Lackeos , Travis Robson

We study the limits on how accurately LISA will be able to estimate the parameters of low-mass compact binaries, comprising white dwarfs (WDs), neutron stars (NSs) or black holes (BHs), while battling the amplitude, frequency, and phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Rogan , Sukanta Bose

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect thousands of individually resolved gravitational wave sources, overlapping in time and frequency, on top of unresolved astrophysical and/or primordial backgrounds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Rahul Srinivasan , Enrico Barausse , Natalia Korsakova , Roberto Trotta

Binaries of relatively massive black holes like GW190521 have been proposed to form in dense gas environments, such as the disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), and they might be associated with transient electromagnetic counterparts. The…

Following an approach developed by Paczy\'nski & Stanek, we derive a distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by comparing red clump stars from the Hipparcos catalog with the red clump stars observed in two fields in the LMC that were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Z. Stanek , D. Zaritsky , J. Harris

Context. Galactic binaries account for the loudest combined continuous gravitational wave signal in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) band, which spans a frequency range of 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. Aims. A superposition of low frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Kristen Lackeos , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish , James I. Thorpe