Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA

KG Arun, E Belgacem, R Benkel, L Bernard… - Living Reviews in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders
about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the …

Gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio systems in astrophysical environments

V Cardoso, K Destounis, F Duque, RP Macedo… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We establish a generic, fully relativistic formalism to study gravitational-wave emission by
extreme-mass-ratio systems in spherically symmetric, nonvacuum black hole spacetimes …

Black holes in galaxies: Environmental impact on gravitational-wave generation and propagation

V Cardoso, K Destounis, F Duque, RP Macedo… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We introduce a family of solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to an anisotropic
fluid, describing asymptotically flat black holes with “hair” and a regular horizon. These …

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in ultralight dark matter

F Duque, CFB Macedo, R Vicente, V Cardoso - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Previous works have argued that future gravitational-wave detectors will be able to probe
the properties of astrophysical environments where binaries coalesce, including accretion …

Distinguishing environmental effects on binary black hole gravitational waveforms

PS Cole, G Bertone, A Coogan, D Gaggero… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Future gravitational wave interferometers such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna,
Taiji, DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory and TianQin will enable …

Dynamical friction in gravitational atoms

GM Tomaselli, TFM Spieksma… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to superradiant instabilities, clouds of ultralight bosons can spontaneously grow around
rotating black holes, creating so-called" gravitational atoms". In this work, we study their …

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals into black holes surrounded by scalar clouds

R Brito, S Shah - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study extreme mass-ratio binary systems in which a stellar mass compact object spirals
into a supermassive black hole surrounded by a scalar cloud. Scalar clouds can form …

Black holes surrounded by generic dark matter profiles: Appearance and gravitational-wave emission

E Figueiredo, A Maselli, V Cardoso - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We develop a numerical approach to find asymptotically flat black hole solutions coupled to
anisotropic fluids, described by generic density profiles. Our model allows for a variety of …

Probing accretion physics with gravitational waves

L Speri, A Antonelli, L Sberna, S Babak, E Barausse… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
Gravitational-wave observations of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) offer the
opportunity to probe the environments of active galactic nuclei (AGN) through the torques …