Measuring eccentricity and gas-induced perturbation from gravitational waves of LISA massive black hole binaries

We assess the possibility of detecting both eccentricity and gas effects (migration and accretion) in the gravitational wave (GW) signal from LISA massive black hole binaries at redshift . Gas induces a phase correction to the GW signal with an effective amplitude () and a semimajor axis dependence (assumed to follow a power-law with slope ). We use a complete model of the LISA response and employ a gas-corrected post-Newtonian inspiral-only waveform model TaylorF2Ecc. By using the Fisher formalism and Bayesian inference, we constrain together with the initial eccentricity , the total redshifted mass , the primary-to-secondary mass ratio q, the dimensionless spins of both component BHs, and the time of coalescence . We find that simultaneously constraining and leads to worse constraints on both parameters with respect to when considered individually. For a standard thin viscous accretion disc around , , , and years MBHB, we can confidently measure (with a relative error of percent) an Eddington ratio for a circular binary and for an eccentric system assuming stronger gas torque near-merger than at the currently explored much-wider binary separations. The minimum measurable eccentricity is in vacuum and in gas. A weak environmental perturbation () to a circular binary can be mimicked by an orbital eccentricity during inspiral, implying that an electromagnetic counterpart would be required to confirm the presence of an accretion disc.