scholarly journals Black hole mass function from gravitational wave measurements

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ely D. Kovetz ◽  
Ilias Cholis ◽  
Patrick C. Breysse ◽  
Marc Kamionkowski
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Wave Measurements

scholarly journals OPTICAL THERMONUCLEAR TRANSIENTS FROM TIDAL COMPRESSION OF WHITE DWARFS AS TRACERS OF THE LOW END OF THE MASSIVE BLACK HOLE MASS FUNCTION

2016 ◽  
Vol 819 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan MacLeod ◽  
James Guillochon ◽  
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz ◽  
Daniel Kasen ◽  
Stephan Rosswog
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Massive Black Hole

scholarly journals Sensitivity of the lower edge of the pair-instability black hole mass gap to the treatment of time-dependent convection

2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (3) ◽  
pp. 4333-4341 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Renzo ◽  
R J Farmer ◽  
S Justham ◽  
S E de Mink ◽  
Y Götberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Turnover Time ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mass Gap ◽  
Mixing Length Theory ◽  
State Assumption ◽  
Additional Equation

ABSTRACT Gravitational-wave detections are now probing the black hole (BH) mass distribution, including the predicted pair-instability mass gap. These data require robust quantitative predictions, which are challenging to obtain. The most massive BH progenitors experience episodic mass ejections on time-scales shorter than the convective turnover time-scale. This invalidates the steady-state assumption on which the classic mixing length theory relies. We compare the final BH masses computed with two different versions of the stellar evolutionary code $\tt{MESA}$: (i) using the default implementation of Paxton et al. (2018) and (ii) solving an additional equation accounting for the time-scale for convective deceleration. In the second grid, where stronger convection develops during the pulses and carries part of the energy, we find weaker pulses. This leads to lower amounts of mass being ejected and thus higher final BH masses of up to ∼$5\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$. The differences are much smaller for the progenitors that determine the maximum mass of BHs below the gap. This prediction is robust at $M_{\rm BH, max}\simeq 48\, \mathrm{M}_\odot$, at least within the idealized context of this study. This is an encouraging indication that current models are robust enough for comparison with the present-day gravitational-wave detections. However, the large differences between individual models emphasize the importance of improving the treatment of convection in stellar models, especially in the light of the data anticipated from the third generation of gravitational-wave detectors.

scholarly journals Constraining the stellar mass function from the deficiency of tidal disruption flares in the nuclei of massive galaxies

2019 ◽  
Vol 485 (3) ◽  
pp. 4413-4422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J D’Orazio ◽  
Abraham Loeb ◽  
James Guillochon
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Stellar Mass ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Tidal Disruption ◽  
Massive Black Hole ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Massive Galaxies ◽  
O 10

ABSTRACT The rate of tidal disruption flares (TDFs) per mass of the disrupting black hole encodes information on the present-day mass function (PDMF) of stars in the clusters surrounding super massive black holes. We explore how the shape of the TDF rate with black hole mass can constrain the PDMF, with only weak dependence on black hole spin. We show that existing data can marginally constrain the minimum and maximum masses of stars in the cluster, and the high-mass end of the PDMF slope, as well as the overall TDF rate. With $\mathcal {O}(100)$ TDFs expected to be identified with the Zwicky Transient Facility, the overall rate can be highly constrained, but still with only marginal constraints on the PDMF. However, if ${\lesssim } 10 {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the TDFs expected to be found by LSST over a decade ($\mathcal {O}(10^3)$ TDFs) are identified, then precise and accurate estimates can be made for the minimum stellar mass (within a factor of 2) and the average slope of the high-mass PDMF (to within $\mathcal {O}(10{{\ \rm per\ cent}})$) in nuclear star clusters. This technique could be adapted in the future to probe, in addition to the PDMF, the local black hole mass function and possibly the massive black hole binary population.

scholarly journals The Distribution and Evolution of Black Hole Mass in Broad Line Quasars

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S267) ◽  
pp. 263-263
Author(s):  
Brandon C. Kelly ◽  
Marianne Vestergaard ◽  
Xiaohui Fan ◽  
Lars Hernquist ◽  
Philip Hopkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Broad Line ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Black Hole Growth ◽  
Hole Growth ◽  
Eddington Limit

We present the first estimate of the black hole mass function (BHMF) of broad-line quasars (BLQSOs) that self-consistently corrects for incompleteness and the statistical uncertainty in the mass estimates, based on a sample of 9886 quasars at 1 < z < 4.5 drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We find evidence for “cosmic downsizing” of black holes in BLQSOs, where the peak in their number density shifts to higher redshift with increasing black hole mass. We estimate the lifetime of the BLQSO phase to be 70 ± 5 Myr for supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at z = 1 with a mass of MBH = 109M⊙, and we constrain the maximum mass of a black hole in a BLQSO to be ~ 1010M⊙. We find that most BLQSOs are not radiating at or near the Eddington limit. Our results are consistent with models for self-regulated black hole growth, where the BLQSO phase occurs at the end of a fueling event when black hole feedback unbinds the accreting gas.

scholarly journals LISA extreme-mass-ratio inspiral events as probes of the black hole mass function

2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Gair ◽  
Christopher Tang ◽  
Marta Volonteri
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Mass Ratio

scholarly journals CONSTRAINTS ON BLACK HOLE GROWTH, QUASAR LIFETIMES, AND EDDINGTON RATIO DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE SDSS BROAD-LINE QUASAR BLACK HOLE MASS FUNCTION

2010 ◽  
Vol 719 (2) ◽  
pp. 1315-1334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon C. Kelly ◽  
Marianne Vestergaard ◽  
Xiaohui Fan ◽  
Philip Hopkins ◽  
Lars Hernquist ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Broad Line ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Black Hole Growth ◽  
Hole Growth
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