scholarly journals Importance of including small body spin effects in the modelling of extreme and intermediate mass-ratio inspirals

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Huerta ◽  
Jonathan R. Gair
Keyword(s):  
Small Body ◽  
Mass Ratio ◽  
Intermediate Mass ◽  
Spin Effects

scholarly journals Dark Matter: An Efficient Catalyst for Intermediate-mass-ratio-inspiral Events

2019 ◽  
Vol 874 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Jun Yue ◽  
Wen-Biao Han ◽  
Xian Chen
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Mass Ratio ◽  
Intermediate Mass ◽  
Efficient Catalyst

scholarly journals Probing gas disc physics with LISA: simulations of an intermediate mass ratio inspiral in an accretion disc

2019 ◽  
Vol 486 (2) ◽  
pp. 2754-2765 ◽  
Author(s):  
A M Derdzinski ◽  
D D’Orazio ◽  
P Duffell ◽  
Z Haiman ◽  
A MacFadyen
Keyword(s):  
Small Deviation ◽  
Compact Object ◽  
Accretion Disc ◽  
Mass Ratio ◽  
Intermediate Mass ◽  
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna ◽  
Total Phase ◽  
Accretion Rates ◽  
Hydrodynamical Simulations ◽  
And Migration

Abstract The coalescence of a compact object with a $10^{4}\hbox{--}10^{7}\, {\rm M_\odot }$ supermassive black hole (SMBH) produces mHz gravitational waves (GWs) detectable by the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). If such an inspiral occurs in the accretion disc of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the gas torques imprint a small deviation in the GW waveform. Here, we present two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with the moving-mesh code disco of a BH inspiraling at the GW rate in a binary system with a mass ratio q = M2/M1 = 10−3, embedded in an accretion disc. We assume a locally isothermal equation of state for the gas (with Mach number $\mathcal {M}=20$) and implement a standard α-prescription for its viscosity (with α = 0.03). We find disc torques on the binary that are weaker than in previous semi-analytic toy models, and are in the opposite direction: the gas disc slows down, rather than speeds up the inspiral. We compute the resulting deviations in the GW waveform, which scale linearly with the mass of the disc. The SNR of these deviations accumulates mostly at high frequencies, and becomes detectable in a 5 yr LISA observation if the total phase shift exceeds a few radians. We find that this occurs if the disc surface density exceeds $\Sigma _0 \gtrsim 10^{2-3}\rm g\, cm^{-2}$, as may be the case in thin discs with near-Eddington accretion rates. Since the characteristic imprint on the GW signal is strongly dependent on disc parameters, a LISA detection of an intermediate mass ratio inspiral would probe the physics of AGN discs and migration.

scholarly journals Prospects for Detection of Gravitational Waves from Intermediate-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

2007 ◽  
Vol 99 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan A. Brown ◽  
Jeandrew Brink ◽  
Hua Fang ◽  
Jonathan R. Gair ◽  
Chao Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Mass Ratio ◽  
Intermediate Mass

scholarly journals The Taiji program: A concise overview

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziren Luo ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Yueliang Wu ◽  
Wenrui Hu ◽  
Gang Jin
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Frequency Band ◽  
Space Mission ◽  
Mass Ratio ◽  
Intermediate Mass ◽  
Concise Overview

Abstract Taiji is a Chinese space mission to detect gravitational waves in the frequency band 0.1 mHz to 1.0 Hz, which aims at detecting super (intermediate) mass black hole mergers and extreme (intermediate) mass ratio in-spirals. A brief introduction of its mission overview, scientific objectives, and payload design is presented. A roadmap is also given in which the launching time is set to the 2030s.

A ROBUST TEST OF GENERAL RELATIVITY IN SPACE

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (12a) ◽  
pp. 2319-2324 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES GRABER
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quadrupole Moment ◽  
Binary Systems ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Uniqueness Theorems ◽  
Mass Ratio ◽  
Intermediate Mass ◽  
Robust Test

LISA may make it possible to test the black-hole uniqueness theorems of general relativity, also called the no-hair theorems, by Ryan's method of detecting the quadrupole moment of a black hole using high-mass-ratio inspirals. This test can be performed more robustly by observing inspirals in earlier stages, where the simplifications used in making inspiral predictions by the perturbative and post-Newtonian methods are more nearly correct. Current concepts for future missions such as DECIGO and BBO would allow even more stringent tests by this same method. Recently discovered evidence supports the existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). Inspirals of binary systems with one IMBH and one stellar-mass black hole would fall into the frequency band of proposed maximum sensitivity for DECIGO and BBO. This would enable us to perform the Ryan test more precisely and more robustly. We explain why tests based on observations earlier in the inspiral are more robust and provide preliminary estimates of possible optimal future observations.

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