The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

Cosmology with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Auclair, D Bacon, T Baker, T Barreiro… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of
cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Constraints on supermassive black hole binaries from the gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The NANOGrav 15 yr data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency
gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low …

New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA

KG Arun, E Belgacem, R Benkel, L Bernard… - Living Reviews in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders
about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the …

JADES-The diverse population of infant black holes at 4< z< 11: Merging, tiny, poor, but mighty

R Maiolino, J Scholtz, E Curtis-Lake, S Carniani… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope has opened the possibility of
identifying moderate-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the early Universe, at and …

Gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio systems in astrophysical environments

V Cardoso, K Destounis, F Duque, RP Macedo… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We establish a generic, fully relativistic formalism to study gravitational-wave emission by
extreme-mass-ratio systems in spherically symmetric, nonvacuum black hole spacetimes …

Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

E Bagui, S Clesse, V De Luca, JM Ezquiaga… - Living Reviews in …, 2025 - Springer
In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most
interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could …

UNCOVER Spectroscopy Confirms the Surprising Ubiquity of Active Galactic Nuclei in Red Sources at z> 5

JE Greene, I Labbe, AD Goulding… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope is revealing a new population of dust-reddened
broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) at redshifts z≳ 5. Here we present deep …

Gravitational waveforms for compact binaries from second-order self-force theory

B Wardell, A Pound, N Warburton, J Miller, L Durkan… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We produce gravitational waveforms for nonspinning compact binaries undergoing a
quasicircular inspiral. Our approach is based on a two-timescale expansion of the Einstein …

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in ultralight dark matter

F Duque, CFB Macedo, R Vicente, V Cardoso - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Previous works have argued that future gravitational-wave detectors will be able to probe
the properties of astrophysical environments where binaries coalesce, including accretion …