Paper:	Observing EMRIs with eLISA/NGO
Volume:	467, 9th LISA Symposium
Page:	173
Authors:	Gair, J. R.; Porter, E. K.
Abstract:	The extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar mass compact objects into massive black holes in the centres of galaxies are an important source of low-frequency gravitational waves for space-based detectors. We discuss the prospects for detecting these sources with the evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA), recently proposed as an ESA mission candidate under the name NGO. We show that NGO could observe a few tens of EMRIs over its two year mission lifetime at redshifts z ≤ 0.5 and describe how the event rate changes under possible alternative specifications of the eLISA design.

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