scholarly journals Gravitational-wave detectability of equal-mass black-hole binaries with aligned spins

2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Reisswig ◽  
Sascha Husa ◽  
Luciano Rezzolla ◽  
Ernst Nils Dorband ◽  
Denis Pollney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Equal Mass ◽  
Black Hole Binaries

scholarly journals Formation of counter-rotating and highly eccentric massive black hole binaries in galaxy mergers

2021 ◽  
Vol 503 (1) ◽  
pp. 498-510
Author(s):  
Imran Tariq Nasim ◽  
Cristobal Petrovich ◽  
Adam Nasim ◽  
Fani Dosopoulou ◽  
Fabio Antonini
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Dynamical Evolution ◽  
Orbital Plane ◽  
Equal Mass ◽  
Galaxy Mergers ◽  
High Eccentricity ◽  
Massive Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Binary Evolution

ABSTRACT Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries represent the main target for missions such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and Pulsar Timing Arrays. The understanding of their dynamical evolution prior to coalescence is therefore crucial to improving detection strategies and for the astrophysical interpretation of the gravitational wave data. In this paper, we use high-resolution N-body simulations to model the merger of two equal-mass galaxies hosting a central SMBH. In our models, all binaries are initially prograde with respect to the galaxy sense of rotation. But, binaries that form with a high eccentricity, e ≳ 0.7, quickly reverse their sense of rotation and become almost perfectly retrograde at the moment of binary formation. The evolution of these binaries proceeds towards larger eccentricities, as expected for a binary hardening in a counter-rotating stellar distribution. Binaries that form with lower eccentricities remain prograde and at comparatively low eccentricities. We study the origin of the orbital flip by using an analytical model that describes the early stages of binary evolution. This model indicates that the orbital plane flip is due to the torque from the triaxial background mass distribution that naturally arises from the galactic merger process. Our results imply the existence of a population of SMBH binaries with a high eccentricity and could have significant implications for the detection of the gravitational wave signal emitted by these systems.

scholarly journals The local nanohertz gravitational-wave landscape from supermassive black hole binaries

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 886-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara M. F. Mingarelli ◽  
T. Joseph W. Lazio ◽  
Alberto Sesana ◽  
Jenny E. Greene ◽  
Justin A. Ellis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole

scholarly journals Stellar hardening of massive black hole binaries: the impact of the host rotation

2021 ◽  
Vol 508 (1) ◽  
pp. 1533-1542
Author(s):  
Ludovica Varisco ◽  
Elisa Bortolas ◽  
Massimo Dotti ◽  
Alberto Sesana
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Equal Mass ◽  
Stellar Systems ◽  
Massive Black Hole ◽  
Loss Cone ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Influence Radius ◽  
Three Body ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with masses of ∼104 to $\sim 10^{10} \, \mathrm{M}_{\odot {}}$ are one of the main targets for currently operating and forthcoming space-borne gravitational wave observatories. In this paper, we explore the effect of the stellar host rotation on the bound binary hardening efficiency, driven by three-body stellar interactions. As seen in previous studies, we find that the centre of mass (CoM) of a prograde MBHB embedded in a rotating environment starts moving on a nearly circular orbit about the centre of the system shortly after the MBHB binding. In our runs, the oscillation radius is ≈ 0.25 (≈ 0.1) times the binary influence radius for equal mass MBHBs (MBHBs with mass ratio 1:4). Conversely, retrograde binaries remain anchored about the centre of the host. The binary shrinking rate is twice as fast when the binary CoM exhibits a net orbital motion, owing to a more efficient loss cone repopulation even in our spherical stellar systems. We develop a model that captures the CoM oscillations of prograde binaries; we argue that the CoM angular momentum gain per time unit scales with the internal binary angular momentum, so that most of the displacement is induced by stellar interactions occurring around the time of MBHB binding, while the subsequent angular momentum enhancement gets eventually quashed by the effect of dynamical friction. The effect of the background rotation on the MBHB evolution may be relevant for LISA sources, that are expected to form in significantly rotating stellar systems.

scholarly journals Multimode frequency-domain model for the gravitational wave signal from nonprecessing black-hole binaries

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilio García-Quirós ◽  
Marta Colleoni ◽  
Sascha Husa ◽  
Héctor Estellés ◽  
Geraint Pratten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Frequency Domain ◽  
Domain Model ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Wave Signal

scholarly journals Gravitational-wave Detection and Parameter Estimation for Accreting Black-hole Binaries and Their Electromagnetic Counterpart

2020 ◽  
Vol 892 (2) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Caputo ◽  
Laura Sberna ◽  
Alexandre Toubiana ◽  
Stanislav Babak ◽  
Enrico Barausse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Parameter Estimation ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Wave Detection ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Wave Detection
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