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Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010

We report results from a search for gravitational waves produced by perturbed intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in data collected by LIGO and Virgo between 2005 and 2010. The search was sensitive to astrophysical sources that produced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration , J. Aasi , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , T. Abbott , M. R. Abernathy , F. Acernese , K. Ackley , C. Adams , T. Adams , P. Addesso , R. X. Adhikari , C. Affeldt , M. Agathos , N. Aggarwal , O. D. Aguiar , A. Ain , P. Ajith , A. Alemic , B. Allen , A. Allocca , D. Amariutei , M. Andersen , R. Anderson , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , K. Arai , M. C. Araya , C. Arceneaux , J. Areeda , S. M. Aston , P. Astone , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , L. Austin , B. E. Aylott , S. Babak , P. T. Baker , G. Ballardin , S. W. Ballmer , J. C. Barayoga , M. Barbet , B. C. Barish , D. Barker , F. Barone , B. Barr , L. Barsotti , M. Barsuglia , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , A. Basti , J. C. Batch , J. Bauchrowitz , Th. S. Bauer , V. Bavigadda , B. Behnke , M. Bejger , M . G. Beker , C. Belczynski , A. S. Bell , C. Bell , M. Benacquista , G. Bergmann , D. Bersanetti , A. Bertolini , J. Betzwieser , P. T. Beyersdorf , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , S. Biscans , M. Bitossi , M. A. Bizouard , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , S. Bloemen , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , M. Boer , G. Bogaert , C. Bogan , C. Bond , F. Bondu , L. Bonelli , R. Bonnand , R. Bork , M. Born , V. Boschi , Sukanta Bose , L. Bosi , C. Bradaschia , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , M. Branchesi , J. E. Brau , T. Briant , D. O. Bridges , A. Brillet , M. Brinkmann , V. Brisson , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , D. D. Brown , F. Brückner , S. Buchman , T. Bulik , H. J. Bulten , A. Buonanno , R. Burman , D. Buskulic , C. Buy , L. Cadonati , G. Cagnoli , J. Calderón Bustillo , E. Calloni , J. B. Camp , P. Campsie , K. C. Cannon , B. Canuel , J. Cao , C. D. Capano , F. Carbognani , L. Carbone , S. Caride , A. Castiglia , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglià , F. Cavalier , R. Cavalieri , C. Celerier , G. Cella , C. Cepeda , E. Cesarini , R. Chakraborty , T. Chalermsongsak , S. J. Chamberlin , S. Chao , P. Charlton , E. Chassande-Mottin , X. Chen , Y. Chen , A. Chincarini , A. Chiummo , H. S. Cho , J. Chow , N. Christensen , Q. Chu , S. S. Y. Chua , S. Chung , G. Ciani , F. Clara , J. A. Clark , F. Cleva , E. Coccia , P. -F. Cohadon , A. Colla , C. Collette , M. Colombini , L. Cominsky , M. Constancio , A. Conte , D. Cook , T. R. Corbitt , M. Cordier , N. Cornish , A. Corpuz , A. Corsi , C. A. Costa , M. W. Coughlin , S. Coughlin , J. -P. Coulon , S. Countryman , P. Couvares , D. M. Coward , M. Cowart , D. C. Coyne , R. Coyne , K. Craig , J. D. E. Creighton , S. G. Crowder , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , K. Dahl , T. Dal Canton , M. Damjanic , S. L. Danilishin , S. D'Antonio , K. Danzmann , V. Dattilo , H. Daveloza , M. Davier , G. S. Davies , E. J. Daw , R. Day , T. Dayanga , G. Debreczeni , J. Degallaix , S. Deléglise , W. Del Pozzo , T. Denker , T. Dent , H. Dereli , V. Dergachev , R. De Rosa , R. T. DeRosa , R. DeSalvo , S. Dhurandhar , M. Díaz , L. Di Fiore , A. Di Lieto , I. Di Palma , A. Di Virgilio , V. Dolique , A. Donath , F. Donovan , K. L. Dooley , S. Doravari , S. Dossa , R. Douglas , T. P. Downes , M. Drago , R. W. P. Drever , J. C. Driggers , Z. Du , M. Ducrot , S. Dwyer , T. Eberle , T. Edo , M. Edwards , A. Effler , H. Eggenstein , P. Ehrens , J. Eichholz , S. S. Eikenberry , G. Endrőczi , R. Essick , T. Etzel , M. Evans , T. Evans , M. Factourovich , V. Fafone , S. Fairhurst , Q. Fang , S. Farinon , B. Farr , W. M. Farr , M. Favata , H. Fehrmann , M. M. Fejer , D. Feldbaum , F. Feroz , I. Ferrante , F. Ferrini , F. Fidecaro , L. S. Finn , I. Fiori , R. P. Fisher , R. Flaminio , J. -D. Fournier , S. Franco , S. Frasca , F. Frasconi , M. Frede , Z. Frei , A. Freise , R. Frey , T. T. Fricke , P. Fritschel , V. V. Frolov , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , J. Gair , L. Gammaitoni , S. Gaonkar , F. Garufi , N. Gehrels , G. Gemme , B. Gendre , E. Genin , A. Gennai , S. Ghosh , J. A. Giaime , K. D. Giardina , A. 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Intermediate-mass black holes born via repeated mergers are unlikely thermodynamically stable

Black hole (BH) thermodynamics is one of the most fascinating aspects of BH physics. While its direct proof is challenging to observe for astrophysical BHs, gravitational waves (GWs) have recently offered a new indirect powerful method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-04 Giacomo Fragione

Black holes in the low mass gap: Implications for gravitational wave observations

Binary neutron-star mergers will predominantly produce black-hole remnants of mass $\sim 3-4\,M_{\odot}$, thus populating the putative \emph{low mass gap} between neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes. If these low-mass black holes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Anuradha Gupta , Davide Gerosa , K. G. Arun , Emanuele Berti , Will Farr , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Detecting Black-Hole Binary Clustering via the Second-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors

The first discovery of the gravitational wave (GW) event, GW150914, suggests a higher merger rate of black-hole (BH) binaries. If this is true, a number of BH binaries will be observed via the second-generation GW detectors, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

Intermediate-mass black hole binary parameter estimation with next-generation ground-based detector networks

Astrophysical scenarios for the formation and evolution of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in the mass range $10^2 M_\odot \lesssim M \lesssim 10^6 M_\odot$ remain uncertain, but future ground-based gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-12 Luca Reali , Roberto Cotesta , Andrea Antonelli , Konstantinos Kritos , Vladimir Strokov , Emanuele Berti

Multimessenger study of merging massive black holes in the OBELISK simulation: gravitational waves, electromagnetic counterparts, and their link to galaxy and black hole populations

Massive black-hole (BH) mergers are predicted to be powerful sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). Coupling the detection of GWs with an electromagnetic (EM) detection can provide key information about merging BHs and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 C. A. Dong-Páez , M. Volonteri , R. S. Beckmann , Y. Dubois , A. Mangiagli , M. Trebitsch , S. Vergani , N. Webb

Observed Gravitational-Wave Populations

Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA experiments now regularly witness gravitational waves from compact binary mergers: the relativistic collisions of neutron stars and/or stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 T. A. Callister

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational Waves from Dynamically Formed Merging Binaries

Merging binary systems consisting of two collapsed objects are among the most promising sources of high frequency gravitational wave, GW, signals for ground based interferometers. Double neutron star or black hole/neutron star mergers are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dafne Guetta , Luigi Stella

Constraining the Black Hole Initial Mass Function with LIGO/VIRGO Observations

Prior to the detection of black holes (BHs) via the gravitational waves (GWs) they generate at merger, the presence of BHs was inferred in X-ray binaries, mostly via dynamical measurements, with masses in the range between $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Rosalba Perna , Yi-Han Wang , Will M. Farr , Nathan Leigh , Matteo Cantiello

Optimal Detection Bands for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Binaries: Prospects for LISA and AMIGO in General Relativity and $f(R, T)$ Gravity

We present a semi analytic forecast for the detection of intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) binaries with the space based detectors LISA (millihertz band) and AMIGO (deci hertz band). A redshift dependent population model is built from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Marcelo M. Lapola , Oswaldo D. Miranda

The MEGaN project II. Gravitational waves from intermediate mass- and binary black holes around a supermassive black hole

We investigate the evolution of intermediate-mass (IMBHs), stellar (BHs) and binary black holes (BHBs), deposited near a supermassive black hole (SMBH) by a population of massive star clusters. Stellar BHs rapidly segregate around the SMBH,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta

Properties of 'Lite' Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidates in LIGO-Virgo's Third Observing Run

Over a hundred gravitational-wave (GW) detections and candidates have been reported from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) detectors. Among these, the most intriguing events are binary black hole mergers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-26 Krystal Ruiz-Rocha , Anjali B. Yelikar , Jacob Lange , William Gabella , Robert A. Weller , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Karan Jani

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

We study the stellar binary black holes (BBHs) inspiralling/merging in galactic nuclei based on our numerical method GNC. We find that $3-40\%$ of all new born BBHs will finally merge due to various dynamical effects. In a five year's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-15 Fupeng Zhang , Xian Chen , Lijing Shao , Kohei Inayoshi

Prospects for joint multiband detection of intermediate-mass black holes by LGWA and the Einstein Telescope

Gravitational-wave (GW) detection offers a novel approach to exploring intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). The GW signals from IMBH mergers mainly fall in the decihertz frequency band. The lunar-based GW detector, the Lunar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Yue-Yan Dong , Ji-Yu Song , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Gravitational Radiation from Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

Recent X-ray observations of galaxies with ROSAT, ASCA, and Chandra have revealed numerous bright off-center point sources which, if isotropic emitters, are likely to be intermediate-mass black holes, with hundreds to thousands of solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Coleman Miller

Gravitational-Wave Signatures from Compact Object Binaries in the Galactic Center

Almost every galaxy has a supermassive black hole (SMBH) residing at its center, the Milky Way included. Recent studies suggest that these unique places are expected to host a high abundance of stellar and compact object binaries. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Huiyi Wang , Alexander P. Stephan , Smadar Naoz , Bao-Minh Hoang , Katelyn Breivik

Low-frequency gravitational radiation from coalescing massive black hole binaries in hierarchical cosmologies

We compute the expected gravitational wave signal from coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries at the center of galaxies in a hierarchical structure formation scenario in which seed holes of intermediate mass form far up in the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Sesana , Francesco Haardt , Piero Madau , Marta Volonteri

$N-$body dynamics of Intermediate mass-ratio inspirals in globular clusters

The intermediate mass-ratio inspiral of a stellar compact remnant into an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) can produce a gravitational wave (GW) signal that is potentially detectable by current ground-based GW detectors (e.g., Advanced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Carl-Johan Haster , Fabio Antonini , Vicky Kalogera , Ilya Mandel

Black hole-neutron star mergers are unlikely multi-messenger sources

The promise by the LIGO/Virgo/Kagra (LVK) collaboration to detect black hole--neutron star (BH--NS) mergers via gravitational wave (GW) emission has recently been fulfilled with the detection of GW200105 and GW200115. Mergers of BH--NS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Giacomo Fragione

Binary black hole mergers from young massive and open clusters: comparison to GWTC-2 gravitational wave data

Several astrophysical scenarios have been proposed to explain the origin of the population of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected in gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration. Among them, BBH mergers assembled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Giacomo Fragione , Sambaran Banerjee