Intermediate-mass black holes as LISA sources

Miller, M. Coleman

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/26/9/094031

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“…As additional confidence is gained through improved analytical understanding and numerical modeling, the dynamical-formation rates will, of course, need to be included in the overall BH-BH rate predictions. The very existence of intermediate-mass black holes is still debatable [60], so intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) into IMBHs are an uncertain class of sources for the LIGO-Virgo network. However, as described in [19], IMRIs of NSs or BHs into IMBHs in globular clusters could, under optimistic conditions, present an interesting Advanced LIGO-Virgo source.…”

Section: Bh-bh Rates Via the Isolated Binary-evolution Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

Abadie¹,

Abbott²,

Abbott³

et al. 2010

Class. Quantum Grav.

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We present an up-to-date, comprehensive summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the initial and advanced versions of the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical estimates for compact-binary coalescence rates depend on a number of assumptions and unknown model parameters and are still uncertain. The most confident among these estimates are the rate predictions for coalescing binary neutron stars which are based on extrapolations from observed binary pulsars in our galaxy. These yield a likely coalescence rate of 100 Myr−1 per Milky Way Equivalent Galaxy (MWEG), although the rate could plausibly range from 1 Myr−1 MWEG−1 to 1000 Myr−1 MWEG−1 (Kalogera et al 2004 Astrophys. J. 601 L179; Kalogera et al 2004 Astrophys. J. 614 L137 (erratum)). We convert coalescence rates into detection rates based on data from the LIGO S5 and Virgo VSR2 science runs and projected sensitivities for our advanced detectors. Using the detector sensitivities derived from these data, we find a likely detection rate of 0.02 per year for Initial LIGO–Virgo interferometers, with a plausible range between 2 × 10−4 and 0.2 per year. The likely binary neutron–star detection rate for the Advanced LIGO–Virgo network increases to 40 events per year, with a range between 0.4 and 400 per year.

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Section: Bh-bh Rates Via the Isolated Binary-evolution Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

Abadie¹,

Abbott²,

Abbott³

et al. 2010

Class. Quantum Grav.

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“…IMBHs may form in young clusters by way of mass segregation followed by runaway mergers [99][100][101][102][103]; IMBH binaries may form in situ [104], or after the collision of two clusters [105,106]. Although the evidence for IMBHs is tentative [107,108], eLISA may observe as many as a few coalescences per year [105] out to a few Gpc [92]; it may also detect stellar-mass BHs plunging into IMBHs in the local Universe [109].…”

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confidence: 99%

Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO

Amaro-Seoane¹,

Aoudia²,

Babak³

et al. 2012

Class. Quantum Grav.

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We review the expected science performance of the New Gravitational-Wave Observatory (NGO, a.k.a. eLISA), a mission under study by the European Space Agency for launch in the early 2020s. eLISA will survey the low-frequency gravitational-wave sky (from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz), detecting and characterizing a broad variety of systems and events throughout the Universe, including the coalescences of massive black holes brought together by galaxy mergers; the inspirals of stellar-mass black holes and compact stars into central galactic black holes; several millions of ultra-compact binaries, both detached and mass transferring, in the Galaxy; and possibly unforeseen sources such as the relic gravitational-wave radiation from the early Universe. eLISA's high signal-tonoise measurements will provide new insight into the structure and history of the Universe, and they will test general relativity in its strong-field dynamical regime.

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“…An intriguing question is whether there is an intermediate population of black holes in the mass range M imbh ∼ 100-10 5 M ⊙ (Miller and Colbert 2004). These objects, referred to as intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs), are interesting for several reasons: they may represent seeds for forming SMBHs through accretion, they could stabilize globular clusters against core collapse (Baumgardt et al 2004), they can lead to dark matter overdensities which will cause excessive dark matter annihilation signals (Bertone et al 2005(Bertone et al , 2009, they may have participated in cosmic reionization (Madau et al 2004), and may provide sources of gravitational waves for direct detection Loeb 2003, 2004;Mandel et al 2008;O'Leary et al 2009;Kocsis et al 2012).…”

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Menus for Feeding Black Holes

Kocsis¹,

Loeb²

2013

The Physics of Accretion Onto Black Holes

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Black holes are the ultimate prisons of the Universe, regions of spacetime where the enormous gravity prohibits matter or even light to escape to infinity. Yet, matter falling toward the black holes may shine spectacularly, generating the strongest source of radiation. These sources provide us with astrophysical laboratories of extreme physical conditions that cannot be realized on Earth. This chapter offers a review of the basic menus for feeding matter onto black holes and discusses their observational implications.Keywords Black holes · black hole binaries · Accretion and accretion disks · Plasmas -astrophysical PACS 04.70.Bw · 04.25.dg · 97.60.Lf · 98.62.Mw · 95.30.Qd

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Intermediate-mass black holes as LISA sources

Cited by 49 publications

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Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO

Menus for Feeding Black Holes

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