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 …

Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

Orbital evolution of binaries in circumbinary discs

M Siwek, R Weinberger… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the to-date largest parameter space exploration of binaries in circumbinary discs
(CBDs), deriving orbital evolution prescriptions for eccentric, unequal mass binaries from our …

Probing the Dark Matter density with gravitational waves from super-massive binary black holes

A Ghoshal, A Strumia - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Supermassive black hole binaries source gravitational waves measured by Pulsar Timing
Arrays. The frequency spectrum of this stochastic background is predicted more precisely …

Post-Newtonian evolution of massive black hole triplets in galactic nuclei–IV. Implications for LISA

M Bonetti, A Sesana, F Haardt… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Coalescing massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) of, forming in the aftermath of galaxy
mergers, are primary targets of the space mission LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space …

Origins and demographics of wandering black holes

A Ricarte, M Tremmel, P Natarajan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We characterize the population of wandering black holes, defined as those physically offset
from their halo centres, in the romulus cosmological simulations. Unlike most other currently …

Searching for stochastic gravitational waves below a nanohertz

W DeRocco, JA Dror - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The stochastic gravitational-wave background is imprinted on the times of arrival of radio
pulses from millisecond pulsars. Traditional pulsar timing analyses fit a timing model to each …

Reviving stochasticity: uncertainty in SMBH binary eccentricity is unavoidable

A Rawlings, M Mannerkoski… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary eccentricity of equal-mass galaxy
mergers in N-body simulations with the ketju code, which combines the gadget-4 fast …

Eccentricity evolution of massive black hole binaries from formation to coalescence

A Gualandris, FM Khan, E Bortolas… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Coalescing supermassive black hole binaries (BHBs) are expected to be the loudest
sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the Universe. Detection rates for ground or space …

Interactions between multiple supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei: a solution to the final parsec problem

T Ryu, R Perna, Z Haiman, JP Ostriker… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Using few-body simulations, we investigate the evolution of supermassive black holes
(SMBHs) in galaxies (M*= 1010–1012 M⊙ at z= 0) at 0< z< 4. Following galaxy merger trees …