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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 107, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.171103
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- NASA [PF9-00063, PF0-110080, NAS8-03060, NNX08AL43G, NNA09DB30A, NNX08AH35G]
- NSF [AST-0907890]
- Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH)
- Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA) [68228]
- NASA [NNX08AH35G, 101487] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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We study the effects of a thin gaseous accretion disk on the inspiral of a stellar-mass black hole into a supermassive black hole. We construct a phenomenological angular momentum transport equation that reproduces known disk effects. Disk torques modify the gravitational wave phase evolution to detectable levels with LISA for reasonable disk parameters. The Fourier transform of disk-modified waveforms acquires a correction with a different frequency trend than post-Newtonian vacuum terms. Such inspirals could be used to detect accretion disks with LISA and to probe their physical parameters.
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