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The Fast and the Frame-Dragging: Efficient waveforms for asymmetric-mass eccentric equatorial inspirals into rapidly-spinning black holes
Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Lorenzo Speri, Zachary Nasipak +13
Observations of gravitational-wave signals emitted by compact binary inspirals provide unique insights into their properties, but their analysis requires accurate and efficient wav…
Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group, Niayesh Afshordi, Sarp Akçay +144
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will exp…
Measuring source properties and quasi-normal-mode frequencies of heavy massive black-hole binaries with LISA
Alexandre Toubiana, Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno +2
The laser-interferometer space antenna (LISA) will be launched in the mid 2030s. It promises to observe the coalescence of massive black-hole (BH) binaries with signal-to-noise rat…
Fast and Fourier: Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral Waveforms in the Frequency Domain
Lorenzo Speri, Michael L. Katz, Alvin J. K. Chua +5
Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources for future space-based gravitational wave interferometers. Measurements of EMRI gravitational waves are expected to…
Is there an excess of black holes around ? Optimising the complexity of population models with the use of reversible jump MCMC
Alexandre Toubiana, Michael L. Katz, Jonathan R. Gair
Some analyses of the third gravitational wave catalogue released by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration (LVK) suggest an excess of black holes around . In order to…
Eryn : A multi-purpose sampler for Bayesian inference
Nikolaos Karnesis, Michael L. Katz, Natalia Korsakova +2
In recent years, methods for Bayesian inference have been widely used in many different problems in physics where detection and characterization are necessary. Data analysis in gra…
Probing Accretion Physics with Gravitational Waves
Lorenzo Speri, Andrea Antonelli, Laura Sberna +4
Gravitational-wave observations of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) offer the opportunity to probe the environments of active galactic nuclei (AGN) through the torques that acc…
Bayesian Characterisation of Circumbinary Exoplanets with LISA
Michael L. Katz, Camilla Danielski, Nikolaos Karnesis +4
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect and characterize Galactic Binaries consisting predominantly of two White Dwarfs (WD). An interesting prospect w…
Assessing the data-analysis impact of LISA orbit approximations using a GPU-accelerated response model
Michael L. Katz, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Alvin J. K. Chua +1
The analysis of gravitational wave (GW) datasets is based on the comparison of measured time series with theoretical templates of the detector's response to a variety of source par…
Merging Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies: Calculating Binary Black Hole Coalescence Timescales from Simulations for LISA Detection
Victoria I. De Cun, Jillian M. Bellovary, Michael L. Katz
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) merging in dwarf galaxies will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) in the mid-2030s. Previous cosmological hydrodynamic…
A fully-automated end-to-end pipeline for massive black hole binary signal extraction from LISA data
Michael L. Katz
The LISA Data Challenges Working Group within the LISA Consortium has started publishing datasets to benchmark, compare, and build LISA data analysis infrastructure as the Consorti…
The missing link in gravitational-wave astronomy: A summary of discoveries waiting in the decihertz range
Manuel Arca Sedda, Christopher P L Berry, Karan Jani +25
Since 2015 the gravitational-wave observations of LIGO and Virgo have transformed our understanding of compact-object binaries. In the years to come, ground-based gravitational-wav…
FastEMRIWaveforms: New tools for millihertz gravitational-wave data analysis
Michael L. Katz, Alvin J. K. Chua, Lorenzo Speri +2
We present the FastEMRIWaveforms (FEW) package, a collection of tools to build and analyze extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) waveforms. Here, we expand on the Physical Review Lett…
Adiabatic waveforms for extreme mass-ratio inspirals via multivoice decomposition in time and frequency
Scott A. Hughes, Niels Warburton, Gaurav Khanna +2
We compute adiabatic waveforms for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by "stitching" together a long inspiral waveform from a sequence of waveform snapshots, each of which corres…
The ZTF Source Classification Project: II. Periodicity and variability processing metrics
Michael W. Coughlin, Kevin Burdge, Dmitry A. Duev +22
The current generation of all-sky surveys is rapidly expanding our ability to study variable and transient sources. These surveys, with a variety of sensitivities, cadences, and fi…
Rapid generation of fully relativistic extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral waveform templates for LISA data analysis
Alvin J. K. Chua, Michael L. Katz, Niels Warburton +1
The future space mission LISA will observe a wealth of gravitational-wave sources at millihertz frequencies. Of these, the extreme-mass-ratio inspirals of compact objects into mass…
Observing the inspiral of coalescing massive black hole binaries with LISA in the era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
Alberto Mangiagli, Antoine Klein, Matteo Bonetti +6
Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) of merging in low redshift galaxies () are sufficiently loud to be detected weeks b…
GPU-Accelerated Periodic Source Identification in Large-Scale Surveys: Measuring and
Michael L. Katz, Olivia R. Cooper, Michael W. Coughlin +3
Many inspiraling and merging stellar remnants emit both gravitational and electromagnetic radiation as they orbit or collide. These gravitational wave events together with their as…
GPU-accelerated massive black hole binary parameter estimation with LISA
Michael L. Katz, Sylvain Marsat, Alvin J. K. Chua +2
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is slated for launch in the early 2030s. A main target of the mission is massive black hole binaries that have an expected detection r…
The Missing Link in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Discoveries waiting in the decihertz range
Manuel Arca Sedda, Christopher P. L. Berry, Karan Jani +27
The gravitational-wave astronomical revolution began in 2015 with LIGO's observation of the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. Over the coming decades, ground-based detec…
Probing Massive Black Hole Binary Populations with LISA
Michael L. Katz, Luke Zoltan Kelley, Fani Dosopoulou +3
ESA and NASA are moving forward with plans to launch LISA around 2034. With data from the Illustris cosmological simulation, we provide analysis of LISA detection rates accompanied…
Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Star Clusters: Binary Black Holes in the LISA Band
Kyle Kremer, Carl L. Rodriguez, Pau Amaro-Seoane +8
The dynamical processing of black holes in the dense cores of globular clusters (GCs), makes them efficient factories for producing binary black holes (BBHs). Here we explore the p…
Evaluating Black Hole Detectability with LISA
Michael L. Katz, Shane L. Larson
We conduct an analysis of the measurement abilities of distinctive LISA detector designs, examining the influence of LISA's low-frequency performance on the detection and character…