Hartwig, Tilman, Agarwal, Bhaskar and Regan, John (2018) Gravitational Wave Signals from the First Massive Black Hole Seeds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479. ISSN 1365-2966
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Abstract
Recent numerical simulations reveal that the isothermal collapse of pristine gas in atomic cooling haloes may result in stellar binaries of supermassive stars with M∗≳104 M⊙. For the first time, we compute the in-situ merger rate for such massive black hole remnants by combining their abundance and multiplicity estimates. For black holes with initial masses in the range 104−6 M⊙ merging at redshifts z≳15 our optimistic model predicts that LISA should be able to detect 0.6 mergers per year. This rate of detection can be attributed, without confusion, to the in-situ mergers of seeds from the collapse of very massive stars. Equally, in the case where LISA observes no mergers from heavy seeds at z≳15 we can constrain the combined number density, multiplicity, and coalesence times of these high-redshift systems. This letter proposes gravitational wave signatures as a means to constrain theoretical models and processes that govern the abundance of massive black hole seeds in the early Univer
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | quasars; supermassive black holes; cosmology; dark ages; reionization; first stars; galaxies; high-redshift; gravitational waves; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Theoretical Physics Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute |
Item ID: | 13181 |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/mnrasl/sly091 |
Depositing User: | John Regan |
Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2020 20:17 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Publisher: | The Royal Astronomical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/13181 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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