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 …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Bayesian limits on gravitational waves from individual supermassive black hole binaries

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Evidence for a low-frequency stochastic gravitational-wave background has recently been
reported based on analyses of pulsar timing array data. The most likely source of such a …

Fundamental physics with the square kilometre array

A Weltman, P Bull, S Camera, K Kelley… - Publications of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned large radio interferometer designed to
operate over a wide range of frequencies, and with an order of magnitude greater sensitivity …

The astrophysics of nanohertz gravitational waves

S Burke-Spolaor, SR Taylor, M Charisi, T Dolch… - The Astronomy and …, 2019 - Springer
Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations in North America, Australia, and Europe, have been
exploiting the exquisite timing precision of millisecond pulsars over decades of observations …

Prospects for future binary black hole gravitational wave studies in light of PTA measurements

J Ellis, M Fairbairn, G Hütsi, M Raidal, J Urrutia… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
NANOGrav and other Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have discovered a common-spectrum
process in the nHz range that may be due to gravitational waves (GWs): if so, they are likely …

Circumbinary disks: accretion and torque as a function of mass ratio and disk viscosity

PC Duffell, D D'Orazio, A Derdzinski… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Using numerical hydrodynamics calculations and a novel method for densely sampling
parameter space, we measure the accretion and torque on a binary system from a …

A systematic search for close supermassive black hole binaries in the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey

MJ Graham, SG Djorgovski, D Stern… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Hierarchical assembly models predict a population of supermassive black hole (SMBH)
binaries. These are not resolvable by direct imaging but may be detectable via periodic …

Electromagnetic counterparts to massive black-hole mergers

T Bogdanović, MC Miller, L Blecha - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Lunar gravitational-wave antenna

J Harms, F Ambrosino, L Angelini, V Braito… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Monitoring of vibrational eigenmodes of an elastic body excited by gravitational waves was
one of the first concepts proposed for the detection of gravitational waves. At laboratory …