The Eccentric and Accelerating Stellar Binary Black Hole Mergers in Galactic Nuclei: Observing in Ground and Space Gravitational Wave Observatories

Abstract

We study the stellar binary black holes (BBHs) inspiralling/merging in galactic nuclei based on our numerical method GNC. We find that $3-40\%$ of all new born BBHs will finally merge due to various dynamical effects. In a five year's mission, up to $10^4$, $10^5$, $\sim 100$ of BBHs inspiralling/merging in galactic nuclei can be detected with SNR$>8$ in aLIGO, Einstein/DECIGO, TianQin/LISA/TaiJi, respectively. About tens are detectable in both LISA/TaiJi/TianQin and aLIGO. These BBHs have two unique characteristics: (1) Significant eccentricities. $1-3\%$, $2-7\%$, or $30-90\%$ of them is with $e_i>0.1$ when they enter into aLIGO, Einstein, or space observatories, respectively. Such high eccentricities provide a possible explanation for that of GW 190521. Most highly-eccentric BBHs are not detectable in LISA/Tianqin/TaiJi before entering into aLIGO/Einstein as their strain become significant only at $f_{\mathrm{GW}}\gtrsim 0.1$ Hz. DECIGO become an ideal observatory to detect those events as it can fully cover the rising phase. (2) Up to $2\%$ of BBHs can inspiral/merge at distances $\lesssim 10^3{r}_{\mathrm{SW}}$ from the massive black hole (MBH), with significant accelerations, such that the Doppler phase drift of $\sim 10-10^5$ of them can be detectable with SNR$>8$ in space observatories. The energy density of the gravitational wave backgrounds (GWB) contributed by these BBHs deviate from the powerlaw slope of $2/3$ at $f_{\mathrm{GW}}\lesssim 1$mHz. The high eccentricity, significant accelerations and different profile of GWB of these sources make them distinguishable, thus interesting for future GW detections and tests of relativities.

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