Pitching Cosmic Curveballs: Environmental Effects on Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals with Spinning Secondaries

arXiv:2606.01569 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-06-01 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-06-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fisher Matrix — 3× in this paper
• Accretion Flows — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Momentum transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accreting Environment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chebyshev Polynomials — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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