LISA capture sources: Approximate waveforms, signal-to-noise ratios, and parameter estimation accuracy
LISA capture sources: Approximate waveforms, signal-to-noise ratios, and parameter estimation accuracy
Captures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) by massive ($\sim 10^6 M_\odot$) black holes (MBHs) are potentially an important source for LISA, the proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. The orbits of the inspiraling COs are highly complicated; they can remain rather eccentric up until the final plunge, and display extreme versions …