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most citedBlack holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

742 citations · 1.5k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Multi-messenger and Multi-band Studies of Massive Black Holes: the Synergies Between LISA and SKAO

Pedro R. Capelo, Alberto Mangiagli, Lorenz Zwick +2

Depending on its mass, the same gas-embedded massive black hole (BH) binary can emit gravitational waves (GWs) in one or more bands (nHz and mHz) concurrently, along with electroma…

astro-ph.GA2026

The LISA Astrophysics MBHcatalogues Project: A comparison of predictions of simulated massive black hole binaries

David Izquierdo-Villalba, Melanie Habouzit, Matteo Bonetti +67

In the hierarchical paradigm of galaxy formation, central massive black holes (MBHs) are expected to coalesce after the merger of their host galaxies. One of the main goals of the…

astro-ph.CO2026

Reducing cosmological degeneracies by combining multiple classes of LISA gravitational-wave standard sirens

Danny Laghi, Nicola Tamanini, Alberto Sesana +6

We present the first joint gravitational-wave cosmological inference with LISA extreme mass-ratio inspirals at (galaxy redshifts) and massive black hole binaries at $z…

astro-ph.CO2026

Testing gravitational wave polarizations with LISA

Shingo Akama, Maxence Corman, Paola C. M. Delgado +16

In this paper we quantify the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to test the presence of non-tensorial polarizations as well as modifications to the tensor on…

astro-ph.IM2025

ESO Expanding Horizons White Paper: Electromagnetic counterparts of massive BH mergers with LISA

M. Dotti, F. Mannucci, R. Buscicchio +10

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), adopted by ESA and scheduled for the second half of the next decade, will drive a new revolution in the rapidly growing field of grav…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Listening Across the Cosmic Time: Standard Sirens from Ground- and Space-Based Missions in the Next Decade

Alberto Salvarese, Hsin-Yu Chen, Alberto Mangiagli +1

Precise measurement of the Hubble parameter will enable stringent tests of the standard model for cosmology. Standard sirens, using the luminosity distances measured by gravitation…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 45 cited

LISA Definition Study Report

Monica Colpi, Karsten Danzmann, Martin Hewitson +108

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Massive black hole binaries in LISA: constraining cosmological parameters at high redshifts

Alberto Mangiagli, Chiara Caprini, Sylvain Marsat +3

One of the scientific objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to probe the expansion of the Universe using gravitational wave observations. Indeed, as gravit…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Massive Black Hole Binaries as LISA Precursors in the Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey

Zoltán Haiman, Chengcheng Xin, Tamara Bogdanović +27

With its capacity to observe faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) out to redshift , Roman is poised to reveal a population of b…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 21 cited

Multimessenger study of merging massive black holes in the OBELISK simulation: gravitational waves, electromagnetic counterparts, and their link to galaxy and black hole populations

C. A. Dong-Páez, M. Volonteri, R. S. Beckmann +5

Massive black-hole (BH) mergers are predicted to be powerful sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). Coupling the detection of GWs with an electromagnetic (EM) detectio…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 25 cited

Chasing Super-Massive Black Hole merging events with and LISA

L. Piro, M. Colpi, J. Aird +15

The European Space Agency is studying two large-class missions bound to operate in the decade of the 30s, and aiming at investigating the most energetic and violent phenomena in th…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 32 cited

Galaxy fields of LISA massive black hole mergers in a simulated Universe

Gaia Lops, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Monica Colpi +3

LISA will extend the search for gravitational waves (GWs) at mHz where loud signals from coalescing binary black holes of are exp…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 359 cited

Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Pierre Auclair, David Bacon, Tessa Baker +177

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand stochastic gravita…

gr-qc2022★ 6 cited

Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Pau Amaro Seoane, Jeff Andrews, Manuel Arca Sedda +156

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 many…

gr-qc2021

The Next Generation Global Gravitational Wave Observatory: The Science Book

Vicky Kalogera, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Matthew Bailes +88

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors will observe coalescences of black holes and neutron stars throughout the cosmos, thousands of them with exceptiona…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 34 cited

Multi-messenger-Athena Synergy White Paper

L. Piro, M. Ahlers, A. Coleiro +30

In this paper we explore the scientific synergies between Athena and some of the key multi-messenger facilities that should be operative concurrently with Athena. These facilities…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 25 cited

Multiband gravitational wave cosmology with stellar origin black hole binaries

Niccolò Muttoni, Alberto Mangiagli, Alberto Sesana +4

Massive stellar origin black hole binaries (SBHBs), originating from stars above the pair-instability mass gap, are primary candidates for multiband gravitational wave (GW) observa…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

The Effect of Mission Duration on LISA Science Objectives

Pau Amaro Seoane, Manuel Arca Sedda, Stanislav Babak +38

The science objectives of the LISA mission have been defined under the implicit assumption of a 4 yr continuous data stream. Based on the performance of LISA Pathfinder, it is now…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 43 cited

Unveiling early black hole growth with multi-frequency gravitational wave observations

Rosa Valiante, Monica Colpi, Raffaella Schneider +7

Third Generation ground based Gravitational Wave Interferometers, like the Einstein Telescope (ET), Cosmic Explorer (CE), and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will det…

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.IM2019★ 11 cited

Unveiling the Gravitational Universe at μ-Hz Frequencies

Alberto Sesana, Natalia Korsakova, Manuel Arca Sedda +31

We propose a space-based interferometer surveying the gravitational wave (GW) sky in the milli-Hz to -Hz frequency range. By the 2040s', the -Hz frequency band, bracketed in…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 36 cited

Merger rate of stellar black hole binaries above the pair instability mass gap

Alberto Mangiagli, Matteo Bonetti, Alberto Sesana +1

In current stellar evolutionary models, the occurrence of pair instability supernovae implies the lack of stellar black holes (BHs) with masses between about $[60, \, 120] \, \rm{M…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

Deeper, Wider, Sharper: Next-Generation Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Observations of Binary Black Holes

Vassiliki Kalogera, Christopher P L Berry, Monica Colpi +10

Next-generation observations will revolutionize our understanding of binary black holes and will detect new sources, such as intermediate-mass black holes. Primary science goals in…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 24 cited

Detectability of modulated X-rays from LISA's supermassive black hole mergers

Tito Dal Canton, Alberto Mangiagli, Scott C. Noble +5

One of the central goals of LISA is the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of supermassive black holes. Contrary to stellar-mass black hole mergers, such events are e…