Localization of Binary Black-Hole Mergers with Known Inclination
arXiv:1902.02797 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2072
Abstract
The localization of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers using gravitational waves is critical in understanding the properties of the binaries' host galaxies, observing possible electromagnetic emission from the mergers, or using them as a cosmological distance ladder. The precision of this localization can be substantially increased with prior astrophysical information about the binary system. In particular, constraining the inclination of the binary can reduce the distance uncertainty of the source. Here we present the first realistic set of localizations for binary black hole mergers, including different prior constraints on the binaries' inclinations. We find that prior information on the inclination can reduce the localization volume by a factor of 3. We discuss two astrophysical scenarios of interest: (i) follow-up searches for beamed electromagnetic/neutrino counterparts and (ii) mergers in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei.
arXiv commentAccepted for publication in MNRAS; 5 pages, 2 figures
References in corpus (57)
- Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
- The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package
- HEALPix -- a Framework for High Resolution Discretization, and Fast Analysis of Data Distributed on the Sphere
- Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Parameter Results
- Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
- Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A
- Advanced LIGO
- An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A
- Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817
- Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the Optical Counterpart to a Gravitational Wave Source
- Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run
- Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Interferometer design of the KAGRA gravitational wave detector
- Robust parameter estimation for compact binaries with ground-based gravitational-wave observations using the LALInference software library
- An improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors
- Superluminal motion of a relativistic jet in the neutron star merger GW170817
- ASCA observations of Seyfert 1 galaxies: II. Relativistic Iron K-alpha emission
- Rapid and Bright Stellar-mass Binary Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei
- What is the Most Promising Electromagnetic Counterpart of a Neutron Star Binary Merger?
- Assisted Inspirals of Stellar Mass Black Holes Embedded in AGN Disks: Solving the "Final AU Problem"
- Exploring short gamma-ray bursts as gravitational-wave standard sirens
- Rapid Bayesian position reconstruction for gravitational-wave transients
- Compact radio emission indicates a structured jet was produced by a binary neutron star merger
- Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks: I. Production & Growth
- Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole Mergers Detected by LIGO
- Identifying Elusive Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Mergers: an end-to-end simulation
- Short Gamma-Ray Bursts from the Merger of Two Black Holes
- Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up
- Dual Jets from Binary Black Holes
- Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory
- AGN Disks Harden the Mass Distribution of Stellar-mass Binary Black Hole Mergers
- Measuring the spin of black holes in binary systems using gravitational waves
- How Gravitational-wave Observations Can Shape the Gamma-ray Burst Paradigm
- A Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
- Parameter estimation for heavy binary-black holes with networks of second-generation gravitational-wave detectors
- Synthetic off-axis light curves for low energy gamma-ray bursts
- A compendium of AGN inclinations with corresponding UV/optical continuum polarization measurements
- Estimating Long GRB Jet Opening Angles and Rest-Frame Energetics
- Electromagnetic signals following stellar-mass black hole mergers
- Ultrafast Outflows from Black Hole Mergers with a Mini-Disk
- Gravitational-Wave Localization Alone Probes AGN Origin of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Mergers
- Constraining the Outflow Structure of the Binary Neutron Star Merger Event GW170817 with Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Analysis
- Inclinations and black hole masses of Seyfert 1 galaxies
- Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and Black Hole Mergers
- Nonspinning searches for spinning binaries in ground-based detector data: Amplitude and mismatch predictions in the constant precession cone approximation
- Swift follow-up of the Gravitational Wave source GW150914
- Disks Around Merging Binary Black Holes: From GW150914 to Supermassive Black Holes
- Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Mergers Inside of Stars
- Finding the One: Identifying the Host Galaxies of Gravitational-Wave Sources
- Evolution of an Accretion Disk in Binary Black Hole Systems
- Energetic constraints on electromagnetic signals from double black hole mergers
- A Dark Energy Camera Search for Missing Supergiants in the LMC After the Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914
- Spectropolarimetry of the borderline Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO 323-G077
- Galaxy Survey On The Fly: Prospects of Rapid Galaxy Cataloging to Aid the Electromagnetic Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Observations
- High Energy Neutrinos from the Gravitational Wave event GW150914 possibly associated with a short Gamma-Ray Burst
Cited by in corpus (14)
- Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei
- Spin Evolution of Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries in Active Galactic Nuclei
- An ASKAP search for a radio counterpart to the first high-significance neutron star-black hole merger LIGO/Virgo S190814bv
- Gravitational Wave Astronomy With TianQin
- GW170817A as a Hierarchical Black Hole Merger
- The most luminous AGN do not produce the majority of the detected stellar-mass black hole binary mergers in the local Universe
- Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Echoes from Galactic Nuclei
- Have hierarchical three-body mergers been detected by LIGO/Virgo?
- Search for Black Hole Merger Families
- Gravitational-wave follow-up with CTA after the detection of GRBs in the TeV energy domain
- Constraining the AGN formation channel for detected black hole binary mergers up to z=1.5 with the Quaia catalogue
- Optimal Gravitational-wave Follow-up Tiling Strategies Using a Genetic Algorithm
- Astro2020 Science White Paper: The Next Decade of Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics
- Detectability of a spatial correlation between stellar-mass black hole mergers and Active Galactic Nuclei in the Local Universe