3 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
Recoil-regulated extreme mass-ratio inspirals in AGN disks
LingQin Xue, Zoltán Haiman, Hiromichi Tagawa +1
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the primary targets of future space-based gravitational-wave observatories, such as LISA, TianQin, and Taiji. Active galactic nucleus…
astro-ph.HE2025
What Determines the Maximum Mass of AGN-assisted Black Hole Mergers?
LingQin Xue, Hiromichi Tagawa, Zoltan Haiman +1
The origin of merging binary black holes detected through gravitational waves remains a fundamental question in astrophysics. While stellar evolution imposes an upper mass limit of…
astro-ph.HE2025
Reconstructing the origin of black hole mergers using sparse astrophysical models
V. Gayathri, Giuliano Iorio, Hiromichi Tagawa +8
The astrophysical origin of binary black hole mergers discovered by LIGO and Virgo remains uncertain. Efforts to reconstruct the processes that lead to mergers typically rely on ei…