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We model the electromagnetic emission signatures of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with an associated gas component. The method comprises numerical simulations of relativistic binaries and gas coupled with calculations of the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tamara Bogdanovic , Britton D. Smith , Michael Eracleous , Steinn Sigurdsson

We perform a detailed study of the cosmological bias of gravitational gave (GW) events produced by binary black hole mergers (BBHM). We start from a BBHM distribution modeled inside the EAGLE hydrodyamical simulation using the population…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 Matteo Peron , Sarah Libanore , Andrea Ravenni , Michele Liguori , Maria Celeste Artale

The first directly detected gravitational waves (GW 150914) were emitted by two coalescing black holes (BHs) with masses of ~36Msun and ~29Msun. Several scenarios have been proposed to put this detection into an astrophysical context. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 R. Hainich , L. M. Oskinova , T. Shenar , P. Marchant , J. J. Eldridge , A. A. C. Sander , W. -R. Hamann , N. Langer , H. Todt

Recent detections of gravitational waves from mergers of neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) in the low and high-end mass gap regimes pose a puzzle to standard stellar and binary evolution theory. Mass-gap mergers may originate from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-09 Adrian S. Hamers , Giacomo Fragione , Patrick Neunteufel , Bence Kocsis

We study the evolution of the orientation of the orbital plane of massive black hole binaries (BHBs) in rotating stellar systems in which the total angular momentum of the stellar cusp is misaligned with respect to that of the binary. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Alessia Gualandris , Massimo Dotti , Alberto Sesana

In this Paper we consider a problem of formation and evolution of orbital parameters of a binary primordial black hole (PBH) due to gravitational interaction with clustering cold dark matter (CDM). Mass and initial separation have values,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sergey Pilipenko , Maxim Tkachev , Pavel Ivanov

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers are the primary sources of gravitational wave (GW) events detected by LIGO/Virgo. Binary black holes embedded in the accretion discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are possible candidates for such GW events.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 W. Ishibashi , M. Gröbner

The recent detection of gravitational waves has proven the existence of massive stellar black hole binaries (BBHs), but the formation channels of BBHs are still an open question. Here, we investigate the demography of BBHs by using our new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-23 Nicola Giacobbo , Michela Mapelli , Mario Spera

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries residing at the core of merging galaxies are recently found to be strongly affected by the rotation of their host galaxies. The highly eccentric orbits that form when the host is counterrotating emit…

For a pair of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the remnant of a dual galaxy merger, well-known models exist to describe their dynamical evolution until the final coalescence accompanied by the emission of a low-frequency gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 Hauke Koehn , Andreas Just , Peter Berczik , Michael Tremmel

The possible formation mechanisms of massive close binary black holes (BHs) that can merge in the Hubble time to produce powerful gravitational wave bursts detected during advanced LIGO O1 and O2 science runs include the evolution from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-10 Konstantin Postnov , Alexander Kuranov

We study the accretion flows from the circumbinary disks onto the supermassive binary black holes in a subparsec scale of the galactic center, using a smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Simulation models are presented in four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

Merging supermassive black hole-black hole (BHBH) binaries produced in galaxy mergers are promising sources of detectable gravitational waves. If such a merger takes place in a gaseous environment, there is a possibility of a simultaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-12 Brian D. Farris , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

Supermassive black hole binaries (BHBs) are expected to be one of the most powerful sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) for future space-borne detectors. Prior to the GW emission stage, BHBs evolving in gas-poor nuclei shrink…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-18 Elisa Bortolas , Michela Mapelli , Mario Spera

Understanding the formation and evolution of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) requires a thorough investigation of the key physical processes involved. While one pathway involves the isolated evolution of massive binary stars,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 M. Paola Vaccaro

We review the main physical processes that lead to the formation of stellar binary black holes (BBHs) and to their merger. BBHs can form from the isolated evolution of massive binary stars. The physics of core-collapse supernovae and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-27 Michela Mapelli

Rapid binary population synthesis codes are often used to investigate the evolution of compact-object binaries. They typically rely on analytical fits of single-star evolutionary tracks and parameterized models for interactive phases of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Monica Gallegos-Garcia , Christopher P L Berry , Pablo Marchant , Vicky Kalogera

We investigate properties of black hole (BH) binaries formed in globular clusters via dynamical processes, using direct N-body simulations. We pay attention to effects of BH mass function on the total mass and mass ratio distributions of BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 Dawoo Park , Chunglee Kim , Hyung Mok Lee , Yeong-Bok Bae , Chris Belczynski

Massive black hole binaries are predicted to form during the hierarchical assembly of cosmic structures and will represent the loudest sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) detectable by present and forthcoming GW experiments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-01 Elisa Bortolas , Alessia Franchini , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) form through galaxy mergers and are among the loudest sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the universe. If the binary inspiral time is long, a subsequent galaxy merger can introduce a third black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-06 Pranav Satheesh , Laura Blecha , Luke Zoltan Kelley