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Scalar-tensor theories are among the simplest extensions of general relativity. In theories with light scalars, deviations from Einstein's theory of gravity are determined by the scalar mass m_s and by a Brans-Dicke-like coupling parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Michael Horbatsch , Justin Alsing

If binary intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; with masses between 100 and $10^4 \Msun$) form in dense stellar clusters, their inspiral will be detectable with the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) out to several Gpc. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Cole Miller , Marc Freitag

We improve the numerical kludge waveform model introduced in [1] in two ways. We extend the equations of motion for spinning black hole binaries derived by Saijo et al. [2] using spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings taken from perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-20 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair , Duncan A. Brown

We compute the accuracy at which a LISA-like space-based gravitational wave detector will be able to observe deviations from General Relativity in the low frequency approximation. To do so, we introduce six correction parameters that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Cédric Huwyler , Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer

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 remarkable sensitivity achieved by the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will allow us to observe gravitational-wave signals from the mergers of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Sophia Yi , Francesco Iacovelli , Sylvain Marsat , Digvijay Wadekar , Emanuele Berti

Spin induced precessional modulations of gravitational wave signals from supermassive black hole binaries can improve the estimation of luminosity distance to the source by space based gravitational wave missions like the Laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Adamantios Stavridis , K. G. Arun , Clifford M. Will

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) will provide long duration inspiral signals with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, ideal for testing general relativity (GR) in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Manuel Piarulli , Sylvain Marsat , Elise M. Sänger , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Nicola Tamanini

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

An outstanding prediction of general relativity is the fact that the angular momentum $S$ of an isolated black hole with mass $\mu$ is limited by the Kerr bound, $S\leq G\mu^2/c$. Testing this cornerstone is challenging due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-22 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

Galactic nuclei are potential hosts for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), whose gravitational field can affect the motion of stars and compact objects. The absence of observable perturbations in our own Galactic Centre has resulted in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Vladimir Strokov , Giacomo Fragione , Emanuele Berti

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA, will detect gravitational wave signals from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals, where a stellar mass compact object orbits a supermassive black hole and eventually plunges into it. Here we report on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Andrea Maselli , Nicola Franchini , Leonardo Gualtieri , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Susanna Barsanti , Paolo Pani

LISA can detect higher harmonics of the ringdown gravitational-wave signal from massive black-hole binary mergers with large signal-to-noise ratio. The most massive black-hole binaries are more likely to have electromagnetic counterparts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso

Observations of gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries using laser-interferometric detectors can provide accurate measures of parameters of the source. They can also constrain alternative gravitation theories. We analyse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Clifford M. Will

The Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) will observe supermassive black hole binary mergers with amplitude signal-to-noise ratio of several thousands. We investigate the extent to which such observations afford high-precision tests…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 K. G. Arun , B. R. Iyer , M. S. S. Qusailah , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We investigate the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to measure the center of mass acceleration of stellar-origin black hole binaries emitting gravitational waves. Our analysis is based on the idea that the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-05 Nicola Tamanini , Antoine Klein , Camille Bonvin , Enrico Barausse , Chiara Caprini

Parsec-scale separation supermassive black hole binaries in the centre of gas-rich galaxy merger remnants could be surrounded by massive circumbinary discs (CBDs). Black hole mass and spin evolution during the gas-rich binary inspiral are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-13 Martin A. Bourne , Davide Fiacconi , Debora Sijacki , Joanna M. Piotrowska , Sophie Koudmani

Response of an interferometer becomes complicated for gravitational wave shorter than the arm-length of the detector, as nature of wave appears strongly. We have studied how parameter estimation for merging massive black hole binaries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Naoki Seto

We explore the ability of future low-frequency gravitational wave detectors to measure the spin of stellar mass and intermediate mass black holes that inspiral onto super-massive Kerr black holes (SMBHs). We develop a kludge waveform model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair

We conduct an analysis of the measurement abilities of distinctive LISA detector designs, examining the influence of LISA's low-frequency performance on the detection and characterization of massive black hole binaries. We are particularly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-07 Michael L. Katz , Shane L. Larson