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Even though the existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs, black holes with masses ranging between $10^{2-4}\,M_{\odot}$) has not yet been corroborated observationally, these objects are of high interest for astrophysics. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Lucia Santamaria

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) span the approximate mass range $100$--$10^5\,M_\odot$, between black holes (BHs) formed by stellar collapse and the supermassive BHs at the centers of galaxies. Mergers of IMBH binaries are the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-16 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration , the KAGRA Collaboration

Gravitational waves (GWs) offer an unprecedented opportunity to survey the sky and detect mergers of compact objects. While intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) have not been detected beyond any reasonable doubt with either dynamical or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Giacomo Fragione

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) bridge the gap between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes, but remain challenging to detect electromagnetically. Gravitational-wave observations provide a direct means of detecting IMBHs and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yue-Yan Dong , Ji-Yu Song , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We discuss the capability of a third-generation ground-based detector such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) to enhance our astrophysical knowledge through detections of gravitational waves emitted by binaries including intermediate-mass and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel , M. Coleman Miller , Marta Volonteri

The direct measurement of gravitational waves is a powerful tool for surveying the population of black holes across the universe. The first gravitational wave catalog from LIGO has detected black holes as heavy as $\sim50~M_\odot$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-09 Karan Jani , Deirdre Shoemaker , Curt Cutler

We estimated the sensitivity of the upcoming advanced, ground-based gravitational-wave observatories (the upgraded LIGO and Virgo and the KAGRA interferometers) to coalescing intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). We added waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-17 G. Mazzolo , F. Salemi , M. Drago , V. Necula , C. Pankow , G. A. Prodi , V. Re , V. Tiwari , G. Vedovato , I. Yakushin , S. Klimenko

Intermediate Mass Black Hole (IMBH) mergers with masses $10^4 - 10^6$ $M_{\odot}$ are expected to produce gravitational waves (GWs) detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) with high signal to noise ratios out to redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Fiza Javed , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Lucio Mayer , Peter Berczik , Andrea V. Macciò

Atom interferometry detectors like AION, ZAIGA, and AEDGE will be able to detect gravitational waves (GWs) at dHz covering the band between large space-based laser interferometers LISA/TianQin/Taiji and ground-based facilities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-16 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

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

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) with a mass between $10^{2}$ and $10^{5}$ times that of the sun, which bridges the {mass gap between the} stellar-mass black holes and the supermassive black holes, are crucial in understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-05 Yun-Feng Liang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Hao Wang , Xiang Li , Yi-Ming Hu , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan , En-Wei Liang , Da-Ming Wei

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) have not been detected beyond any reasonable doubt through either dynamical or accretion signatures. Gravitational waves (GWs) represent an unparalleled opportunity to survey the sky and detect mergers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Giacomo Fragione , Abraham Loeb

Observation of gravitational waves (GWs) in two different frequency bands is referred to as multiband GW astronomy. With the planned Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) operating in the $10^{-4}-0.1$ Hz range, and third generation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Sayantani Datta , Anuradha Gupta , Shilpa Kastha , K. G. Arun , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The next generation of ground-based gravitational wave detectors may detect a few mergers of comparable-mass M\simeq 100-1000 Msun ("intermediate-mass'', or IMBH) spinning black holes. Black hole spin is known to have a significant impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Richard O'Shaughnessy , Birjoo Vaishnav , James Healy , Deirdre Shoemaker

We investigate the evolution of star clusters containing intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) of $300$ to $5000\ \mathrm{M}_\odot$, focusing on the formation and evolution of IMBH-stellar mass black holes (SBHs; $M_{\rm BH} \lesssim 10^2\…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Seungjae Lee , Hyung Mok Lee , Ji-hoon Kim , Rainer Spurzem , Jongsuk Hong , Eunwoo Chung

Intermediate mass ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of binary black holes with mass ratios $10^{-4}\lesssim q \lesssim 0.1$ are astrophysically interesting sources of gravitational waves. Mergers of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with…

Gravitational waves emitted by merging black holes between $\sim 10^4-10^7~M_\odot$ will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) with signal-to-noise ratios of several hundred out to redshift 20. Supermassive black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

Repeated mergers of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in dense star clusters can produce intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). In particular, nuclear star clusters at the centers of galaxies have deep enough potential wells to retain most of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Giacomo Fragione , Abraham Loeb , Bence Kocsis , Frederic A. Rasio

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are believed to be the missing link between the supermassive black holes (BHs) found at the centers of massive galaxies and BHs formed through stellar core collapse. One of the proposed mechanisms for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-14 Rujuta A. Purohit , Giacomo Fragione , Frederic A. Rasio , Grayson C. Petter , Ryan C. Hickox

Observations suggest that star clusters often form in binaries or larger bound groups. Therefore, mergers between two clusters are likely to occur. If these clusters both harbor an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH; 10^{2-4} Msun) in their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Marc Freitag
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