Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the primary targets for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The extreme mass ratios of these systems result in relatively weak GW signals, that can be individually resolved only for cosmologically nearby sources (up to $z\approx2$). The incoherent piling up of the signal emitted by unresolved EMRIs generate a confusion noise, that can be formally treated as a stochastic GW background (GWB). In this paper, we estimate the level of this background considering a collection of astrophysically motivated EMRI models, spanning the range of uncertainties affecting EMRI formation. To this end, we employed the innovative Augmented Analytic Kludge waveforms and used the full LISA response function. For each model, we compute the GWB SNR and the number of resolvable sources. Compared to simplified computations of the EMRI signals from the literature, we find that for a given model the GWB SNR is lower by a factor of $\approx 2$ whereas the number of resolvable sources drops by a factor 3-to-5. Nonetheless, the vast majority of the models result in potentially detectable GWB which can also significantly contribute to the overall LISA noise budget in the 1-10 mHz frequency range.
From S2 to LISA: Astrometric Bounds on Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals and Bursts
CERN（欧洲核子研究中心）；Dipartimento di Fisica, “Sapienza” Università di Roma & Sezione INFN Roma1（罗马第一大学物理系与INFN罗马第一分部）；Weizmann Institute of Science（魏茨曼科学研究所）
Chaotic migration of LISA Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals in a turbulent accretion disk: effect on waveform de-phasing
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Physics Department, New York University（纽约大学物理系宇宙学与粒子物理中心）；Department of Astrophysics, University of Zurich（苏黎世大学天体物理学系）；Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院上海天文台）；National Astronomical Observatory of Japan（日本国立天文台）；Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz（加州大学圣克鲁兹分校天文与天体物理学系）；Institute for Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University（清华大学高等研究院）
