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most citedBlack holes surrounded by generic matter distributions: polar perturbations and energy flux

54 citations · 120 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

gr-qc2026

From Density to Mass: A New Parametrized Framework for Dark Matter Environment Around Black Holes

Rajes Ghosh, Nicholas Speeney, Avijit Chowdhury +3

Astrophysical black holes (BHs) are not isolated vacuum objects but are expected to reside within complex environments, such as dark matter (DM) halos and baryonic distributions. S…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Gravitational Atoms from Topological Stars

Ibrahima Bah, Emanuele Berti, Bogdan Ganchev +2

We study the bound states of a massive scalar field around a topological star, and show that these are strictly normal modes. This yields a genuine gravitational atom, sharply dist…

gr-qc2025★ 18 cited

Extreme mass ratio inspirals in rotating dark matter spikes

Soumodeep Mitra, Nicholas Speeney, Sumanta Chakraborty +1

Gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are a key observational target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The waveforms may be aff…

gr-qc2025★ 14 cited

Extreme mass ratio inspirals in dark matter halos: dynamics and distinguishability of halo models

Sara Gliorio, Emanuele Berti, Andrea Maselli +1

The gravitational wave (GW) signals from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), a key target for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will be affected in the presence of d…

gr-qc2024★ 54 cited

Black holes surrounded by generic matter distributions: polar perturbations and energy flux

Nicholas Speeney, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso +1

We develop a numerical approach to compute polar parity perturbations within fully relativistic models of black hole systems embedded in generic, spherically symmetric, anisotropic…

gr-qc2023★ 30 cited

Cavity effect in the quasinormal mode spectrum of topological stars

Pierre Heidmann, Nicholas Speeney, Emanuele Berti +1

We study scalar perturbations of topological solitons, smooth horizonless solutions in five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory that correspond to coherent states of gravity via th…

gr-qc2022★ 1 cited

The impact of relativistic corrections on the detectability of dark-matter spikes with gravitational waves

Nicholas Speeney, Andrea Antonelli, Vishal Baibhav +1

Black holes located within a dark matter cloud can create overdensity regions known as dark matter spikes. The presence of spikes modifies the gravitational-wave signals from binar…