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 . These events tell us that the mass ratio of two black holes follows with the chance probability of 0.00301% for the chirp mass . We show that the relation of 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 that the mass ratio follows with the chance probability of 0.117% if we ignore GW190412 with . This suggests a different origin from that for .
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
Comment welcome. accepted by MNRAS