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Mass Ratio of Binary Black Holes Determined from LIGO/Virgo Data Restricted to Small False Alarm Rate

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-06-28 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We focus on gravitational-wave events of binary black-hole mergers up to the third observing run with the minimum false alarm rate smaller than 105yr110^{-5}\,{\rm yr}^{-1}. These events tell us that the mass ratio of two black holes follows m2/m1=0.723m_2/m_1=0.723 with the chance probability of 0.00301% for the chirp mass Mchirp>18MM_{\rm chirp} > 18\,M_{\odot}. We show that the relation of m2/m1=0.723m_2/m_1=0.723 is consistent with the binaries originated from population III stars which are the first stars in the universe. On the other hand, it is found for chirp<18M{\rm chirp} < 18 M_{\odot} that the mass ratio follows m2/m1=0.601m_2/m_1=0.601 with the chance probability of 0.117% if we ignore GW190412 with m2/m10.32m_2/m_1\sim 0.32. This suggests a different origin from that for Mchirp>18MM_{\rm chirp} > 18 M_{\odot}.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14042,
  title  = {Mass Ratio of Binary Black Holes Determined from LIGO/Virgo Data Restricted to Small False Alarm Rate},
  author = {Tomoya Kinugawa and Takashi Nakamura and Hiroyuki Nakano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14042},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Comment welcome. accepted by MNRAS