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most citedProbing astrophysical environment with eccentric extreme mass-ratio inspirals

73 citations · 142 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

gr-qc2026

Spinning test particles in a weak gravitational wave and the memory effect

Ritwik Acharyya, Shailesh Kumar, Sayan Kar

In this work, we investigate the worldline deviation of spinning test particles in a weak gravitational wave (GW) spacetime. Within the pole-dipole approximation and the Tulczyjew…

gr-qc2026

Massive scalar fields in eccentric regime: Detectability and constraints from LISA observations of extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Tieguang Zi, Shailesh Kumar, Jun-Kun Zhao +3

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most promising sources for future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories and provide sensitive probes of additional fu…

hep-th2026

Dynamical tidal response of regular black holes: Perturbative analysis and shell EFT interpretation

Arpan Bhattacharyya, Naman Kumar, Shailesh Kumar

We compute the frequency-dependent quadrupolar tidal response of Bardeen, Hayward, and Fan-Wang regular black holes in the polar and axial sectors by solving the coupled gravitatio…

gr-qc2026

Probing beyond-vacuum general relativistic effects with extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Tieguang Zi, Mostafizur Rahman, Shailesh Kumar

We examine extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) as probes of beyond-vacuum general relativistic effects, accounting for both astrophysical environments and scalar Gauss-Bonnet (sGB…

gr-qc2025

Gravitational memory meets astrophysical environments: exploring a new frontier through osculations

Rishabh Kumar Singh, Shailesh Kumar, Abhishek Chowdhuri +1

We study how dark matter environments influence nonlinear gravitational memory from intermediate-mass-ratio binaries. Incorporating environmental effects from the dark matter gravi…

hep-th2025★ 3 cited

Love beyond Einstein: Metric reconstruction and Love number in quadratic gravity using WEFT

Arpan Bhattacharyya, Saptaswa Ghosh, Naman Kumar +2

We study tidal Love numbers of static black holes in four-dimensional quadratic theory of gravity, extending the result of GR. We use worldline effective field theory (WEFT) method…

gr-qc2025

Probing scalar field with generic extreme mass-ratio inspirals around Kerr black holes

Tieguang Zi, Shailesh Kumar

The future space-based gravitational wave observatories are expected to provide unprecedented opportunities to explore intricate characteristics of black hole binaries, particularl…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals and extra dimensions: Insights from modified Teukolsky framework

Shailesh Kumar, Tieguang Zi, Arpan Bhattacharyya

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) offer a promising avenue to test extra-dimensional physics through gravitational wave (GW) observations. In this work, we study equatorial ecce…

gr-qc2025★ 5 cited

Imprints of extra dimensions in eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals gravitational waveforms

Shailesh Kumar, Tieguang Zi, Arpan Bhattacharyya

Studies regarding extra-dimensions have been of great interest in modern theoretical physics, including their observational consequences from future gravitational wave (GW) observa…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Gravitational waves from regular black holes in extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Shailesh Kumar, Tieguang Zi

We analyze a rotating regular black hole spacetime with an asymptotically Minkowski core, focusing on extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRIs) where a stellar-mass object inspirals a su…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Probing deviations to Kerr geometry with extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Shailesh Kumar

One of the primary research aims of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is to comprehensively map the Kerr spacetime, a fundamental pursuit in the realm of genera…

gr-qc2024

Eccentric extreme mass-ratio inspirals: A gateway to probe quantum gravity effects

Tieguang Zi, Shailesh Kumar

We examine a loop quantum gravity (LQG) inspired rotating black hole, treating it as a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) in an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) system, where…

gr-qc2024★ 29 cited

Exploring waveforms with non-GR deviations for extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Shailesh Kumar, Rishabh Kumar Singh, Abhishek Chowdhuri +1

The fundamental process of detecting and examining the polarization modes of gravitational waves plays a pivotal role in enhancing our grasp on the precise mechanisms behind their…

gr-qc2023★ 27 cited

Prospects of detecting deviations to Kerr geometry with radiation reaction effects in EMRIs

Abhishek Chowdhuri, Arpan Bhattacharyya, Shailesh Kumar

Direct detection of gravitational waves and binary black hole mergers have proven to be remarkable investigations of general relativity. In order to have a definitive answer as to…

gr-qc2023★ 73 cited

Probing astrophysical environment with eccentric extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Mostafizur Rahman, Shailesh Kumar, Arpan Bhattacharyya

The discovery of gravitational waves and black holes has started a new era of gravitational wave astronomy that allows us to probe the underpinning features of gravity and astrophy…