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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

The capture of compact stellar remnants by galactic black holes provides a unique laboratory for exploring the near horizon geometry of the Kerr spacetime, or possible departures from general relativity if the central cores prove not to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 N. J. Cornish

We construct effective-one-body waveform models suitable for data analysis with LISA for extreme-mass ratio inspirals in quasi-circular, equatorial orbits about a spinning supermassive black hole. The accuracy of our model is established…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-23 Nicolas Yunes , Alessandra Buonanno , Scott A. Hughes , Yi Pan , Enrico Barausse , M. Coleman Miller , William Throwe

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will explore the source-rich milli-Hertz band of the gravitational wave spectrum. In contrast to ground based detectors, where typical signals are short-lived and discrete, LISA signals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-09 Travis Robson , Neil Cornish

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

Our current understanding is that an environment - mainly consisting of gas or stars - is required to bring massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with total redshifted mass $M_z\sim[10^{4},10^7]~{\rm M}_\odot$ to the LISA band from parsec…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Mudit Garg , Laura Sberna , Lorenzo Speri , Francisco Duque , Jonathan Gair

As gravitational wave detectors improve in sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratios of compact binary coalescences will dramatically increase, reaching values in the hundreds and potentially thousands. Such strong signals offer both exciting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-15 Aasim Jan , Deborah Ferguson , Jacob Lange , Deirdre Shoemaker , Aaron Zimmerman

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will catalogue the light-curves of up to 100 million quasars. Among these there can be up to approximately 100 ultra-compact massive black hole (MBH) binaries, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-28 Chengcheng Xin , Zoltan Haiman

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational wave signals from a wide range of sources. However, disentangling individual signals from the source-dominated data stream is a challenging problem and the…

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

We develop an accurate simulation-based inference framework for high-mass ($\gtrsim\!10^7 \rm{M_\odot}$) black-hole binaries observable by LISA. The method is implemented within the DINGO gravitational-wave parameter-estimation code,…

We propose that stellar-mass binary black holes like GW150914 will become a tool to explore the local Universe within ~100Mpc in the era of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). High calibration accuracy and annual motion of LISA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Koutarou Kyutoku , Naoki Seto

Over the last three decades, an exceptionally good science case has been made for pursuing gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. This has engendered a worldwide effort to detect the extremely weak signals generated by expected sources. With…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-12 S. Buchman , J. A. Lipa , R. L. Byer , D. DeBra , K. Balakrishnan , G. Dufresne Cutler , A. Al-Fauwaz , E. Hultgren , A. K. Al-Jadaan , S. Saraf , S. Tan , S. Al-Thubiti , A. Zoellner

Gravitational waves (GWs) produced by sound waves in the primordial plasma during a strong first-order phase transition in the early Universe are going to be a main target of the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-17 Kai Schmitz

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in the universe. Here we revisit the wave-optics effects induced by dark matter (DM) halos on the GW signals of merging massive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Zucheng Gao , Xian Chen , Yi-Ming Hu , Jian-Dong Zhang , Shunjia Huang

Observations of binary inspirals with LISA will allow us to place bounds on alternative theories of gravity and to study the merger history of massive black holes (MBH). These possibilities rely on LISA's parameter estimation accuracy. We…

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

We investigate the possible bounds which could be placed on alternative theories of gravity using gravitational wave detection from inspiralling compact binaries with the proposed LISA space interferometer. Specifically, we estimate lower…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Clifford M Will , Nicolas Yunes

The intensity of low frequency gravitational waves from black hole MACHO binaries is studied. First we estimate the gravitational wave background produced by black hole MACHO binaries in the Milky Way halo as well as the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kunihito Ioka , Takahiro Tanaka , Takashi Nakamura

The extreme weakness of the gravitational interaction has as one of its consequences that appreciable intensities of gravitational waves (GW) can only be generated in large size astrophysical and cosmological sources. Earth based detectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Alberto Lobo

The gravitational wave signals from coalescing Supermassive Black Hole Binaries are prime targets for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). With optimal data processing techniques, the LISA observatory should be able to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Neil J. Cornish , Edward K. Porter

The proposed space gravitational wave (GW) detector LISA has potential to detect stellar-mass black hole binaries (BBHs). The majority of the detected BBHs are expected to emit nearly monochromatic GWs, whose frequency evolution will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Naoki Seto