Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

Quasinormal modes are eigenmodes of dissipative systems. Perturbations of classical
gravitational backgrounds involving black holes or branes naturally lead to quasinormal …

To be observed and analyzed by the network of gravitational wave detectors on ground
(LIGO, VIRGO, etc.) and by the future detectors in space (e LISA, etc.), inspiralling compact …

The next two decades are expected to open the door to the first coincident detections of
electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational-wave (GW) signatures associated with massive …

We review the current theory of how galaxies form within the cosmological framework
provided by the cold dark matter paradigm for structure formation. Beginning with the pre …

We review the current status of general relativistic studies for coalescences of black hole–
neutron star binaries. First, high-precision computations of black hole–neutron star binaries …

When unequal-mass black holes merge, the final black hole receives a kick due to the
asymmetric loss of linear momentum in the gravitational radiation emitted during the merger …

We study the inspiral, merger, and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries by
analyzing a catalogue of numerical simulations for seven different values of the mass ratio …

Hamiltonian formalisms provide powerful tools for the computation of approximate analytic
solutions of the Einstein field equations. The post-Newtonian computations of the explicit …

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) in galactic nuclei are thought to be a common
by-product of major galaxy mergers. We use simple disk models for the circumbinary gas …