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most citedFastEMRIWaveforms: New tools for millihertz gravitational-wave data analysis

211 citations · 1.3k across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

gr-qc2025

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…

gr-qc2023★ 48 cited

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…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

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…

gr-qc2023★ 47 cited

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…

gr-qc2023★ 26 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 57 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 17 cited

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…

gr-qc2022★ 51 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

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…

gr-qc2021

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…

gr-qc2021★ 7 cited

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…

gr-qc2021★ 211 cited

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…

gr-qc2021★ 139 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 29 cited

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…

gr-qc2020★ 151 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 69 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

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…

gr-qc2020★ 60 cited

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…

gr-qc2019★ 139 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 85 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 107 cited

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…

gr-qc2018★ 29 cited

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…