Detecting massive scalar fields with extreme mass-ratio inspirals

S Barsanti, A Maselli, TP Sotiriou, L Gualtieri - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study the imprint of light scalar fields on gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio
inspirals—binary systems with a very large mass asymmetry. We first show that, to leading …

Waveform modelling for the laser interferometer space antenna

N Afshordi, S Akçay, PA Seoane, A Antonelli… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave
astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will expand …

Detecting new fundamental fields with pulsar timing arrays

C Zhang, N Dai, Q Gao, Y Gong, T Jiang, X Lu - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Strong evidence of the existence of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB)
has been reported recently by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational …

Detecting vector charge with extreme mass ratio inspirals onto Kerr black holes

C Zhang, H Guo, Y Gong, B Wang - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are excellent sources for space-based observatories to
explore the properties of black holes and test no-hair theorems. We consider EMRIs with a …

Testing gravity with extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

A Cárdenas-Avendaño, CF Sopuerta - Recent Progress on Gravity Tests …, 2024 - Springer
Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals consist of binary systems of compact objects, with orders of
magnitude differences in their masses, in the regime where the dynamics are driven by …

Signatures of ultralight bosons in compact binary inspiral and outspiral

Y Cao, Y Tang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Ultralight bosons are well-motivated particles from various physical and cosmological
theories and can be spontaneously produced during the superradiant process, forming a …

Probing fundamental physics with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals: a full Bayesian inference for scalar charge

L Speri, S Barsanti, A Maselli, TP Sotiriou… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are key sources for the future space-based
gravitational wave detector LISA, and are considered promising probes of fundamental …

Probing new fundamental fields with extreme mass ratio inspirals

C Zhang, Y Gong - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We examine extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a charged compact object spirals
into a supermassive black hole, in modified gravity theories with additional scalar or vector …

Quasi-normal modes of loop quantum black holes formed from gravitational collapse

C Zhang, A Wang - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a scalar field in the background of
a large class of quantum black holes that can be formed from gravitational collapse of a dust …

Importance of including higher signal harmonics in the modeling of extreme mass-ratio inspirals

C Zhang, N Dai, D Liang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are the most potential sources detectable by the Laser
Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). To analyze the influence of higher harmonics on …