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LISA will be able to detect gravitational waves from inspiralling massive black hole (MBH) binaries out to redshifts z > 10. If the binary masses and luminosity distances can be extracted from the LISA data stream, this information can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Baker , J. Centrella

We forecast the prospective of detection for a stochastic gravitational wave background sourced by cosmological first-order phase transitions. We focus on first-order phase transitions with negligible plasma effects, and consider the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Daniel G. Figueroa , Eugenio Megias , Germano Nardini , Mauro Pieroni , Mariano Quiros , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The noise produced by the inspiral of millions of white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way may pose a threat to one of the main goals of the space-based LISA mission: the detection of massive black hole binary mergers. We present a novel study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Charles Badger , Katarina Martinovic , Alejandro Torres-Forné , Mairi Sakellariadou , José A. Font

Gravitational wave observations will probe non-linear gravitational interactions and thus enable strong tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity. We present a numerical relativity study of the late inspiral and merger of binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 James Healy , Tanja Bode , Roland Haas , Enrique Pazos , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre M. Shoemaker , Nicolás Yunes

The present work reports on a feasibility study commissioned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences of China to explore various possible mission options to detect gravitational waves in space alternative to that of the eLISA/LISA mission…

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

We present the steps to forecast the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to both a stochastic gravitational wave background and deterministic wave sources. We show how to use these expressions to estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Tristan L. Smith , Robert Caldwell

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is being designed to detect and study in detail gravitational waves from sources throughout the Universe such as massive black hole binaries. The conceptual formulation of the LISA space-borne…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Scott E Pollack , Robin Tuck Stebbins

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

The orbital motion of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) introduces modulations into the observed gravitational wave signal. These modulations can be used to determine the location and orientation of a gravitational wave source.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Neil J. Cornish , Louis J. Rubbo

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based gravitational wave telescope with the goal of measuring gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band, which is dominated by millions of Galactic binaries. While…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, is designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It is expected that tens of millions of Galactic binaries will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cedric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna's (LISA's) observation of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBH) could provide a new tool for precision cosmography. Inclusion of sub-dominant signal harmonics in the inspiral signal allows for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Chris Van Den Broeck , M. Trias , B. S. Sathyaprakash , A. M. Sintes

General relativity has very specific predictions for the gravitational waveforms from inspiralling compact binaries obtained using the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation. We investigate the extent to which the measurement of the PN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Chandra Kant Mishra , K. G. Arun , Bala R. Iyer , B. S. Sathyaprakash

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri

We present a novel machine learning framework tailored to detect massive black hole binaries observed by spaceborne gravitational wave detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and predict their future merger times. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Niklas Houba , Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Domenico Giardini

Current searches for signals of departures from the fundamental symmetries of General Relativity using gravitational waves are largely dominated by propagation effects like dispersion and birefringence from highly dynamic sources such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Nils A. Nilsson , Christophe Le-Poncin Lafitte

We present a method to search for gravitational waves from coalescing supermassive binary black holes in LISA data. The search utilizes the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic to maximize over, and determine the values of, the extrinsic parameters of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. W. Harry , S. Fairhurst , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We study the constraints on alternative theories of gravity that can be determined by multi-band observations of gravitational wave signals emitted from binary black hole coalescences. We focus on three types of General Relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-18 Giuseppe Gnocchi , Andrea Maselli , Tiziano Abdelsalhin , Nicola Giacobbo , Michela Mapelli

Ultracompact binaries with orbital periods less than a few hours will dominate the gravitational wave signal in the mHz regime. Until recently, 10 systems were expected have a predicted gravitational wave signal strong enough to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 T. Kupfer , V. Korol , S. Shah , G. Nelemans , T. R. Marsh , G. Ramsay , P. J. Groot , D. T. H Steeghs , E. M. Rossi