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Coalescing massive Black Hole binaries are the strongest and probably the most important gravitational wave sources in the LISA band. The spin and orbital precessions bring complexity in the waveform and make the likelihood surface richer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Antoine Petiteau , Yu Shang , Stanislav Babak , Farhan Feroz

In the frequency band of Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), extensive research has been conducted on the impact of foreground confusion noise generated by galactic binaries within the Milky Way galaxy. Additionally, the recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Fan Huang , Yan-Chen Bi , Zhoujian Cao , Qing-Guo Huang

Massive black hole binaries, with masses in the range 1E3-1E8 Msun, are expected to be the most powerful sources of gravitational radiation at mHz frequencies, and hence are among the primary targets for the planned Laser Interferometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sesana , F. Haardt , P. Madau , M. Volonteri

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

The recent detections of GW150914 and GW151226 imply an abundance of stellar-mass binary-black-hole mergers in the local universe. While ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are limited to observing the final moments before a binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 Katelyn Breivik , Carl L. Rodriguez , Shane L. Larson , Vassiliki Kalogera , Frederic A. Rasio

The laser-interferometer space antenna (LISA) will be launched in the mid 2030s. It promises to observe the coalescence of massive black-hole (BH) binaries with signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) reaching thousands. Crucially, it will detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Alexandre Toubiana , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael L. Katz

This article is an introduction for the nonpractitioner to the ideas and issues of LISA data analysis, as reflected in the explorations and experiments of the participants in the Mock LISA Data Challenges. In particular, I discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-27 Michele Vallisneri

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect the inspiral and merger of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at z <~ 5 with signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of hundreds to thousands. Because of these high SNRs,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Curt Cutler , Michele Vallisneri

The coalescence of massive black hole binaries (with masses $10^4 - 10^7 M_{\odot}$) leads to gravitational wave emission that is detectable out to high redshifts ($z \sim 20$) with the forthcoming LISA observatory. We combine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Abraham Loeb

The early inspiral of massive stellar-mass black-hole binaries merging in LIGO's sensitivity band will be detectable at low frequencies by the upcoming space mission LISA. LISA will predict, with years of forewarning, the time and frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Rhondale Tso , Davide Gerosa , Yanbei Chen

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

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is expected to observe gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries across cosmic time. Many are anticipated to be detectable hours to weeks before coalescence. We present a fast algorithm for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Francesco Nobili , Malvina Bellotti , Riccardo Buscicchio , Massimo Dotti , Alessandro Lupi

Coalescing binary black hole mergers are expected to be the strongest gravitational wave sources for ground-based interferometers, such as the LIGO, VIRGO, and GEO600, as well as the space-based interferometer LISA. Until recently it has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John G. Baker , Sean T. McWilliams , James R. van Meter , Joan Centrella , Dae-Il Choi , Bernard J. Kelly , Michael Koppitz

We study prospects for detecting extragalactic binary black holes similar to GW150914 by evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA). We find that the majority of detected binary black holes will not merge within reasonable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-30 Koutarou Kyutoku , Naoki Seto

We investigate the capability of LISA to measure the sky position of equal-mass, nonspinning black hole binaries, combining for the first time the entire inspiral-merger-ringdown signal, the effect of the LISA orbits, and the complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Sean T. McWilliams , Ryan N. Lang , John G. Baker , James Ira Thorpe

Large-scale (i.e., $\gtrsim {\rm kpc}$) and micro-Gauss scale magnetic fields have been observed throughout the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. These fields depend on the geometry and matter-energy composition, can display complicated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Anuraag Reddy , Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb , Jo-Anne Brown

The upcoming LISA mission will be able to detect gravitational waves from galactic and extragalactic compact binaries. Here, we report on LISA's capability to probe dark matter around these binaries if the latter constitute black holes. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sohan Ghodla

Recently it was shown that the inclusion of higher signal harmonics in the inspiral signals of binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) leads to dramatic improvements in parameter estimation with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 K G Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra , Chris Van Den Broeck , B R Iyer , B S Sathyaprakash , Siddhartha Sinha

The evolving Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) will revolutionize our understanding of the formation and evolution of massive black holes along cosmic history by probing massive black hole binaries in the $10^3-10^7$ solar mass…

Gravitational wave detection has opened up new avenues for exploring and understanding some of the fundamental principles of the universe. The optimal method for detecting modelled gravitational-wave events involves template-based matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Damon Beveridge , Alistair McLeod , Linqing Wen , Andreas Wicenec