Up to hundreds of black hole binaries individually resolvable by eLISA will coalesce in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo band within 10 yr, allowing for multiband gravitational wave observations. Binaries formed via dynamical interactions in dense star clusters are expected to have eccentricities e0∼10-3-10-1 at the frequencies f0=10-2 Hz where eLISA is most sensitive, while binaries formed in the field should have negligible eccentricity in both frequency bands. We estimate that eLISA should always be able to detect a nonzero e0 whenever e0â‰10-2; if e0∼10-3, eLISA should detect nonzero eccentricity for a fraction ∼90% (∼25%) of binaries when the observation time is Tobs=5 (2) yr, respectively. Therefore eLISA observations of black hole binaries have the potential to distinguish between field and cluster formation scenarios.

Nishizawa, A., Berti, E., Klein, A., Sesana, A. (2016). ELISA eccentricity measurements as tracers of binary black hole formation. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 94(6) [10.1103/PhysRevD.94.064020].

ELISA eccentricity measurements as tracers of binary black hole formation

Sesana A.
2016

Abstract

Up to hundreds of black hole binaries individually resolvable by eLISA will coalesce in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo band within 10 yr, allowing for multiband gravitational wave observations. Binaries formed via dynamical interactions in dense star clusters are expected to have eccentricities e0∼10-3-10-1 at the frequencies f0=10-2 Hz where eLISA is most sensitive, while binaries formed in the field should have negligible eccentricity in both frequency bands. We estimate that eLISA should always be able to detect a nonzero e0 whenever e0â‰10-2; if e0∼10-3, eLISA should detect nonzero eccentricity for a fraction ∼90% (∼25%) of binaries when the observation time is Tobs=5 (2) yr, respectively. Therefore eLISA observations of black hole binaries have the potential to distinguish between field and cluster formation scenarios.
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Black hole physics; Gravitational waves: General relativity
English
2016
94
6
064020
none
Nishizawa, A., Berti, E., Klein, A., Sesana, A. (2016). ELISA eccentricity measurements as tracers of binary black hole formation. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 94(6) [10.1103/PhysRevD.94.064020].
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