Detecting extreme-mass-ratio-inspirals with LISA using time-frequency methods

The inspiral of a stellar-mass object into a supermassive BH constitutes one of the most important sources for LISA Fully coherent matched filtering has been shown to be computationally intractable We discuss an efficient and robust detection method that utilizes the time-frequency evolution of such systems The feasibility of this method as a first step of a hierarchical search will be discussed