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most citedThe Science of the Einstein Telescope

97 citations · 132 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

gr-qc2026

Chaotic signatures in extreme-mass-ratio systems surrounded by bosonic environments

Qi-Xuan Xu, Kyriakos Destounis, Yin-Da Guo +2

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals are key gravitational-wave sources for testing strong gravity and the environments of massive black holes. While orbital motion in Kerr black hole spac…

gr-qc2026

Stochastic gravitational-wave background from self-interacting superradiant clouds

Yin-Da Guo, Richard Brito, Chen Yuan

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations offer a powerful probe of new fundamental fields. One well-motivated source is black hole (BH)--boson cloud systems, in which an ultralight sca…

gr-qc2026

Revisiting environmental effects on black hole quasibound-state spectra with relativistic perturbation theory

Yin-Da Guo, Qi-Xuan Xu, Richard Brito +1

We present a relativistic framework for computing corrections to the eigenfrequency spectrum of a massive scalar field in perturbed black-hole spacetimes, including first-order shi…

gr-qc2026

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals into Newtonian Proca stars

João Bernardo Silva, Richard Brito

Massive bosonic fields can form self-gravitating solitonic structures, which for vector fields are known as Proca stars. For ultralight fields, these structures can describe the co…

gr-qc2026

Resonances as signatures of scalar clouds in eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

Qi-Xuan Xu, Richard Brito, Riccardo Della Monica +2

Ultralight scalars arise naturally in many extensions to the Standard Model and are compelling dark matter candidates. Around spinning black holes, dense scalar clouds could form t…

gr-qc2026

Relativistic effects in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals within scalar clouds: Eccentric and inclined orbits

Qi-Xuan Xu, Richard Brito, Riccardo Della Monica +2

We study extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) evolving in a scalar cloud environment that may form through superradiant instabilities, using a fully relativistic perturbative frame…

gr-qc2025

Excitation of scalar quasi-normal modes from boson clouds

Enrico Cannizzaro, Marco Palleschi, Laura Sberna +2

Massive scalar fields on black hole backgrounds generally admit two families of modes: quasi-bound states (QBS) and quasinormal modes (QNM). We demonstrate the orthogonality betwee…

gr-qc2025

Constraining the Swift Memory Burden Effect with GW250114-like Events

Chen Yuan, Richard Brito

Black hole spectroscopy allows to infer the properties of the remnant of a binary black hole coalescence. Motivated by the recent proposal that a black hole's information load can…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Overdamped quasibound states inside a Schwarzschild black hole

Jeff Steinhauer, Kyriakos Destounis, Richard Brito

Schwarzschild black-hole interiors, bounded by event horizons and terminated by spacelike singularities, are regions where all physical observers are inevitably destroyed. In the g…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

Extreme mass ratio inspirals around topological stars

Marco Melis, Richard Brito, Paolo Pani

We study a point scalar charge in circular orbit around a topological star, a regular, horizonless soliton emerging from dimensional compactification of Einstein-Maxwell theory in…

gr-qc2025

Detectability of gravitational atoms in black hole binaries with the Einstein Telescope

Riccardo Della Monica, Richard Brito

Rotating black holes can amplify ultralight bosonic fields through superradiance, forming macroscopic clouds known as gravitational atoms. When the cloud forms around one of the co…

gr-qc2025★ 97 cited

The Science of the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Environmental effects in extreme mass ratio inspirals: perturbations to the environment in Kerr

Conor Dyson, Thomas F. M. Spieksma, Richard Brito +2

Future gravitational wave observatories open a unique avenue to study the environments surrounding black holes. Intermediate or extreme mass ratio inspirals will spend thousands to…

gr-qc2024★ 26 cited

Impact of relativistic waveforms in LISA's science objectives with extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

Hassan Khalvati, Alessandro Santini, Francisco Duque +4

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key targets for future space-based gravitational wave detectors, such as LISA. The scientific potential of these sources can onl…