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The Eccentric and Accelerating Stellar Binary Black Hole Mergers in Galactic Nuclei: Observing in Ground and Space Gravitational Wave Observatories

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2022-02-15 v3 Astrophysics of Galaxies General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the stellar binary black holes (BBHs) inspiralling/merging in galactic nuclei based on our numerical method GNC. We find that 340%3-40\% of all new born BBHs will finally merge due to various dynamical effects. In a five year's mission, up to 10410^4, 10510^5, 100\sim100 of BBHs inspiralling/merging in galactic nuclei can be detected with SNR>8>8 in aLIGO, Einstein/DECIGO, TianQin/LISA/TaiJi, respectively. About tens are detectable in both LISA/TaiJi/TianQin and aLIGO. These BBHs have two unique characteristics: (1) Significant eccentricities. 13%1-3\%, 27%2-7\%, or 3090%30-90\% of them is with ei>0.1e_i>0.1 when they enter into aLIGO, Einstein, or space observatories, respectively. Such high eccentricities provide a possible explanation for that of GW 190521. Most highly-eccentric BBHs are not detectable in LISA/Tianqin/TaiJi before entering into aLIGO/Einstein as their strain become significant only at fGW0.1f_{\rm GW}\gtrsim0.1 Hz. DECIGO become an ideal observatory to detect those events as it can fully cover the rising phase. (2) Up to 2%2\% of BBHs can inspiral/merge at distances 103rSW\lesssim10^3 r_{\rm SW} from the massive black hole (MBH), with significant accelerations, such that the Doppler phase drift of 10105\sim10-10^5 of them can be detectable with SNR>8>8 in space observatories. The energy density of the gravitational wave backgrounds (GWB) contributed by these BBHs deviate from the powerlaw slope of 2/32/3 at fGW1f_{\rm GW}\lesssim 1mHz. The high eccentricity, significant accelerations and different profile of GWB of these sources make them distinguishable, thus interesting for future GW detections and tests of relativities.

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@article{arxiv.2109.14842,
  title  = {The Eccentric and Accelerating Stellar Binary Black Hole Mergers in Galactic Nuclei: Observing in Ground and Space Gravitational Wave Observatories},
  author = {Fupeng Zhang and Xian Chen and Lijing Shao and Kohei Inayoshi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14842},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Published in ApJ. 32 pages, 13 figures, typos corrected