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 …

Quiescent and active galactic nuclei as factories of merging compact objects in the era of gravitational wave astronomy

M Arca Sedda, S Naoz, B Kocsis - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
Galactic nuclei harbouring a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), possibly surrounded
by a dense nuclear cluster (NC), represent extreme environments that house a complex …

GW190521: orbital eccentricity and signatures of dynamical formation in a binary black hole merger signal

I Romero-Shaw, PD Lasky, E Thrane… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
GW190521: Orbital Eccentricity and Signatures of Dynamical Formation in a Binary Black Hole
Merger Signal - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to …

Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M o˙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521

LIGO Scientific Collaboration… - Astrophysical …, 2020 - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
The gravitational-wave signal GW190521 is consistent with a binary black hole (BBH)
merger source at redshift 0.8 with unusually high component masses, 85-14+ 21 M o and 66 …

Merging black holes in young star clusters

UN Di Carlo, N Giacobbo, M Mapelli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Searching for distinctive signatures, which characterize different formation channels of
binary black holes (BBHs), is a crucial step towards the interpretation of current and future …

AGN as potential factories for eccentric black hole mergers

J Samsing, I Bartos, DJ D'Orazio, Z Haiman, B Kocsis… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
There is some weak evidence that the black hole merger named GW190521 had a non-zero
eccentricity,. In addition, the masses of the component black holes exceeded the limit …

Stochastic gravitational wave background from stellar origin binary black holes in LISA

S Babak, C Caprini, DG Figueroa… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the latest constraints on the population of stellar origin binary black holes (SOBBH)
from LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observations, to estimate the stochastic gravitational wave …

Eccentric black hole mergers in dense star clusters: The role of binary–binary encounters

M Zevin, J Samsing, C Rodriguez… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first systematic study of strong binary–single and binary–binary black hole
(BH) interactions with the inclusion of general relativity. By including general relativistic …

Four eccentric mergers increase the evidence that LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA's binary black holes form dynamically

I Romero-Shaw, PD Lasky, E Thrane - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The growing population of compact binary mergers detected with gravitational waves
contains multiple events that are challenging to explain through isolated binary evolution …