Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes: Effect of non-quadrupole modes

Abstract

We study the effect of non-quadrupolar modes in the detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves (GWs) from non-spinning black-hole binaries. We evaluate the loss of signal-to-noise ratio and the systematic errors in the estimated parameters when one uses a quadrupole-mode template family to detect GW signals with all the relevant modes, for target signals with total masses $20M_{\odot }\le M\le 250M_{\odot }$ and mass ratios $1\le q\le 18$. Target signals are constructed by matching numerical-relativity simulations describing the late inspiral, merger and ringdown of the binary with post-Newtonian/effective-one-body waveforms describing the early inspiral. We find that waveform templates modeling only the quadrupolar modes of the GW signal are sufficient (loss of detection rate $<10\%$) for the detection of GWs with mass ratios $q\le 4$ using advanced GW observatories. Neglecting the effect of non-quadrupole modes will introduce systematic errors in the estimated parameters. The systematic errors are larger than the expected $1\sigma$ statistical errors for binaries with large, unequal masses ($q\gtrsim 4,M\gtrsim 150M_{\odot }$), for sky-averaged signal-to-noise ratios larger than $8$. We provide a summary of the regions in the parameter space where neglecting non-quadrupole modes will cause unacceptable loss of detection rates and unacceptably large systematic biases in the estimated parameters.

11 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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