8 papers
Gotta light? Illuminating AGN disks with LISA EMRIs
Federico Fantoccoli, Francisco Duque, Jonathan Gair
We study the ability of the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to constrain gas torques acting on extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) when these are embedded in ac…
Quantifying the Scientific Potential of Intermediate and Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Lorenzo Speri, Francisco Duque, Susanna Barsanti +4
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable precision studies of Extreme and Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs/IMRIs), providing unique probes of astrophysical…
Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in relativistic accretion discs
Francisco Duque, Laura Sberna, Andrew Spiers +1
We compute relativistic Lindblad torques for circular, equatorial extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) embedded in relativistic thin accretion discs, including spinning black hole…
Bias-Corrected Importance Sampling for Inferring Beyond-Vacuum-GR Effects in Gravitational-Wave Sources
Shubham Kejriwal, Francisco Duque, Alvin J. K. Chua +1
The upcoming gravitational wave (GW) observatory LISA will measure the parameters of sources like extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) to exquisite precision. These measurements wi…
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…
Constraining accretion physics with gravitational waves from eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
Francisco Duque, Shubham Kejriwal, Laura Sberna +2
We study the evolution of eccentric, equatorial extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) immersed in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei. We find that single gravitational-wa…