5 papers
The Doppler boosted LISA response to gravitational waves
Tom van der Steen, Henri Inchauspé, Thomas Hertog +1
Future space-based gravitational wave observatories like LISA, TianQin and Taji are expected to detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs),…
Relativistic signatures of scalar dark matter in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
Robrecht Keijzer, Simon Maenaut, Henri Inchauspé +1
We study gravitational wave emission by circular extreme-mass-ratio systems in a spherically symmetric scalar environment. Previous studies have focused on the impact of scalar rad…
Good things always come in 3s: trimodality in the binary black-hole chirp-mass distribution supports bimodal black-hole formation
Reinhold Willcox, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Eva Laplace +7
The latest GWTC-4 release from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration nearly doubles the known population of double compact object mergers and reveals a new trimodal structure in…
New gravitational-wave data support a bimodal black-hole mass distribution
R. Willcox, F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace +7
Detailed stellar evolution and supernova models yield a bimodal black-hole mass distribution with a narrow peak around 10 solar masses from stars within a narrow range of progenito…
Ringdown Analysis of Rotating Black Holes in Effective Field Theory Extensions of General Relativity
Simon Maenaut, Gregorio Carullo, Pablo A. Cano +4
Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes were recently computed in a generic effective-field-theory extension of general relativity with higher-derivative corrections. We…