Emulating the complex galactic-scale orbital dynamics of LISA massive black hole pairs with normalizing flows

arXiv:2607.26125 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Pedro R. Capelo, Carlos Moreno Martinez, Nodens Koren, Tommaso Zana, Elisa Bortolas, Matteo Bonetti, Janis Fluri, Thomas Hofmann, Lucio Mayer

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-07-28

Comments: 23 pages, submitted to MNRAS

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Normalizing Flow — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Normalizing Flows — 18× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• AGN — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Italian Ministry for Universities and Research — 1× in this paper
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• pulsar timing arrays — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Multi-messenger and Multi-band Studies of Massive Black Holes: the Synergies Between LISA and SKAO
• LISA Definition Study Report
• Not all cores are equal: Phase-space origins of dynamical friction, stalling and buoyancy
• Neural Spline Flows
• The LISA Astrophysics MBHcatalogues Project: A comparison of predictions of simulated massive black hole binaries
• Variational Inference with Normalizing Flows
• Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
• The black hole occupation fraction as a fossil record of seeding, dynamics, and galaxy assembly

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