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most citedIndication for a compact object next to a LIGO-Virgo binary black hole merger

12 citations · 18 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

gr-qc2026

Horizon-redshift transfer in black-hole direct-wave damping

Wen-Biao Han, Ye Jiang

Direct waves from black-hole mergers may probe horizon dynamics, but their observed envelopes need not decay at the Kerr surface-gravity rate. We compute the complex-frequency spin…

gr-qc2026

Measurability of Quadrupole Deviations from Kerr in Binary black hole Mergers

Song Li, Wen-Biao Han

We investigate the measurability of black hole quadrupole deviations from Kerr using five binary black hole mergers observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration with the beyond-g…

gr-qc2026

Long-Lived Ringing of Near-Extremal Kerr Black Holes Resonantly Driven by Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Wen-Biao Han

Near-extremal Kerr black holes support zero-damped modes (ZDMs), whose small time-domain damping rates make them long-lived probes of the near-horizon region. We show that bound ex…

gr-qc2026

A self-consistent EOB--Teukolsky framework for generic extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Xingyu Zhong, Wen-Biao Han, Ye Jiang +2

We present a full-relativistic waveform model for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by self-consistently combining the effective one-body (EOB) formalism with the Teukolsky equa…

gr-qc2026

Probing Active Galactic Nuclei and Measuring the Hubble constant with Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Jian-Dong Liu, Wen-Biao Han, Hiromichi Tagawa

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) carry valuable information about their surrounding astrophysical environments. Over the course of their long-term evolution, interactions betwe…

astro-ph.HE2026

Waveforms and Fluxes of Generic Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals with a Spinning Secondary

Qiuxin Cui, Wen-Biao Han

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), comprising a stellar-mass compact object (CO) orbiting a supermassive black hole (BH), are key targets for future space-based gravitational-wa…

gr-qc2025

A New High-Performing Method for Solving the Homogeneous Teukolsky Equation

Ye Jiang, Wen-Biao Han

The numerical waveforms for the extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) require a huge amount of homogeneous solutions of the Teukolsky equation in the frequency domain. The calculati…

gr-qc2025

Mapping inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms of binary black holes from black hole perturbation waveforms by machine learning

Xing-Yu Zhong, Wen-Biao Han, Ling Sun

Identifying weak gravitational wave signals in noise and estimating the source properties require high-precision waveform templates. Numerical relativity (NR) simulations can provi…

gr-qc2025★ 6 cited

Assessing the systematic errors of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals waveforms for testing general relativity

Ping Shen, Qiuxin Cui, Wen-Biao Han

Gravitational wave (GW) observations from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are powerful tools for testing general relativity (GR). However, systematic errors arising from wavef…

gr-qc2024

The imprint of cosmic expansion history on the propagation of gravitational waves

Ye Jiang, Wen-Biao Han

Gravitational waves (GWs) are regarded as standard sirens for Cosmology. GWs from compact binary coalescence (CBC) can directly determine the luminosity distance but usually can no…

gr-qc2024

Tests of gravitational wave propagation with LIGO-Virgo catalog

Xian-Liang Wang, Shu-Cheng Yang, Wen-Biao Han

In the framework of general relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) travel at the speed of light across all frequencies. However, massive gravity and weak equivalence principle…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

Indication for a compact object next to a LIGO-Virgo binary black hole merger

Shu-Cheng Yang, Wen-Biao Han, Hiromichi Tagawa +2

The astrophysical origin of binary black hole (BBH) mergers remains uncertain, although many events have been observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network. Such mergers are potentially…

gr-qc2023

Resolving "dirty" effects around black holes by decoupling the Teukolsky equation

Ye Jiang, Wen-Biao Han

Detecting the environment around the supermassive black holes and tests of general relativity are important applications of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). There is still a c…

gr-qc2023

Tests of no-hair theorem with binary black-hole coalescences

Song Li, Wen-Biao Han, Shu-Cheng Yang

Test of the no-hair theorem is the primary target with gravitational waves from binary black holes. In this Letter, we analyze gravitational-wave data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA det…