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The accurate calculation of long-term phase evolution of gravitational wave (GW) forms from extreme (intermediate) mass ratio inspirals (E(I)MRIs) is an inevitable step to extract information from this system. Achieving this goal, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-09 Soichiro Isoyama , Ryuichi Fujita , Norichika Sago , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Takahiro Tanaka

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves due to the gravitational instability of primordial density perturbations in an early matter-dominated era which could be detectable by experiments such as LIGO and LISA. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

The capture of a stellar-mass compact object by a supermassive black hole and the subsequent inspiral (driven by gravitational radiation emission) constitute one of the most important sources of gravitational waves for space-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-02 Carlos F. Sopuerta

In an earlier work [S. Kastha et al., PRD {\bf 98}, 124033 (2018)], we developed the {\it parametrized multipolar gravitational wave phasing formula} to test general relativity, for the non-spinning compact binaries in quasi-circular orbit.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Shilpa Kastha , Anuradha Gupta , K. G. Arun , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Chris Van Den Broeck

Extreme mass ratio inspirals, compact objects spiraling into massive black holes, represent key sources for future space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA. The inspirals will occur within rich astrophysical environments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Lukáš Polcar , Vojtěch Witzany

Gravitational wave observations will be excellent tools for making precise measurements of processes that occur in very strong-field regions of spacetime. Extreme mass ratio systems, formed by the capture of a stellar mass body compact by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-15 Scott A. Hughes

In astrophysics, extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) systems, which consist of a central supermassive black hole and a stellar-mass compact object (SCO), are typically embedded in galactic dark matter (DM) halos. This dark matter environment…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Guo-He Li , Chen-Kai Qiao , Jun Tao

The pulsar timing residuals induced by gravitational waves from non-evolving single binary sources are affected by many parameters related to the relative positions of the pulsar and the gravitational wave sources. We will fully analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Ming-Lei Tong , Cheng-Shi Zhao , Bao-Rong Yan , Ting-Gao Yang , Yu-Ping Gao

We present a study on binary-single interactions with energy loss terms such as tidal dissipation and gravitational wave emission added to the equation-of-motion. The inclusion of such terms leads to the formation of compact binaries that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Johan Samsing , Morgan MacLeod , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

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

In this article we give a brief review of the fundamental physics that can be done with the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. This includes detection of gravitational wave bursts coming from cosmic strings, measuring a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-25 Stanislav Babak , Jonathan R. Gair , Antoine Petiteau , Alberto Sesana

Gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals offer a new opportunity to constrain the cosmological time dependence of gravitational coupling parameters, due to the high precision of the observations themselves as well as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Oliver Pitt , Timothy Clifton

The future space mission LISA will observe a wealth of gravitational-wave sources at millihertz frequencies. Of these, the extreme-mass-ratio inspirals of compact objects into massive black holes are the only sources that combine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-08 Alvin J. K. Chua , Michael L. Katz , Niels Warburton , Scott A. Hughes

The effect of a slowly rotating mass on a forced harmonic oscillator with two degrees of freedom is studied in the weak field approximation. It is found that according to the general theory of relativity there is a shift in the resonat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Babur M. Mirza

Precision observations of orbital systems have recently emerged as a promising new means of detecting gravitational waves and ultra-light dark matter, offering sensitivity in new regimes with significant discovery potential. These searches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-25 Joshua W. Foster , Diego Blas , Adrien Bourgoin , Aurelien Hees , Míriam Herrero-Valea , Alexander C. Jenkins , Xiao Xue

Gravitational waves have been shown to provide new constraints on gravitational theories beyond general relativity (GR), especially in the strong field regime. Gravitational wave signals from galactic double white dwarfs, expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi , Phil Arras

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals are crucial sources for future space-based gravitational wave detections. Gravitational waveforms emitted by extreme mass-ratio inspirals are closely related to the orbital dynamics of small celestial objects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Sen Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang , Tao Zhu , Li Zhao , Yu-Xiao Liu

Inspiraling compact binaries have been identified as one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves for interferometric detectors. Most of these binaries are expected to have circularized by the time their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Martel , Eric Poisson

Gravitational wave astronomy has placed strong constraints on fundamental physics, and there is every expectation that future observations will continue to do so. In this work we quantify this expectation for future binary merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Stephon Alexander , Evan McDonough , Robert Sims , Nicolas Yunes

We study gravitational-wave emission from the quasi-circular, extreme mass ratio inspiral of compact objects of mass m0 into massive objects of mass M>>m0 whose external metric is identical to the Schwarzschild metric, except for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Paolo Pani , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Yanbei Chen , Richard Norte