LISA observations of massive black hole mergers: event rates and issues in waveform modelling
arXiv:astro-ph/0602470 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/19/S17
Abstract
The observability of gravitational waves from supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes by the forecoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and the physics we can learn from the observations, will depend on two basic factors: the event rates for massive black hole mergers occurring in the LISA best sensitivity window, and our theoretical knowledge of the gravitational waveforms. We first provide a concise review of the literature on LISA event rates for massive black hole mergers, as predicted by different formation scenarios. Then we discuss what (in our view) are the most urgent issues to address in terms of waveform modelling. For massive black hole binary inspiral these include spin precession, eccentricity, the effect of high-order Post-Newtonian terms in the amplitude and phase, and an accurate prediction of the transition from inspiral to plunge. For black hole ringdown, numerical relativity will ultimately be required to determine the relative quasinormal mode excitation, and to reduce the dimensionality of the template space in matched filtering.
arXiv comment14 pages, 2 figures. Added section with conclusions and outlook. Matches version to appear in the proceedings of 10th Annual Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW 10), Brownsville, Texas, 14-17 Dec 2005
References in corpus (60)
- A Fundamental Relation Between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
- Closest Star Seen Orbiting the Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way
- The Assembly and Merging History of Supermassive Black Holes in Hierarchical Models of Galaxy Formation
- Massive Black Holes as Population III Remnants
- Possibility of Direct Measurement of the Acceleration of the Universe Using 0.1 Hz Band Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Antenna in Space
- On gravitational-wave spectroscopy of massive black holes with the space interferometer LISA
- Stellar Orbits Around the Galactic Center Black Hole
- Using gravitational-wave standard sirens
- The First Measurement of Spectral Lines in a Short-Period Star Bound to the Galaxy's Central Black Hole: A Paradox of Youth
- On the black hole - bulge mass relation in active and inactive galaxies
- Search templates for gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries: Choice of template spacing
- Production of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters
- Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
- Black Hole Spectroscopy: Testing General Relativity through Gravitational Wave Observations
- Estimating spinning binary parameters and testing alternative theories of gravity with LISA
- Consequences of gravitational radiation recoil
- Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves from Massive Black Hole Binaries: Predictions for LISA and Pulsar Timing Arrays
- A Correlation between Galaxy Light Concentration and Supermassive Black Hole Mass
- A Geometric Determination of the Distance to the Galactic Center
- The distribution and cosmic evolution of massive black hole spins
- Black Hole Demographics from the M(BH)-sigma Relation
- Low-frequency gravitational radiation from coalescing massive black hole binaries in hierarchical cosmologies
- Tracing Black Hole Mergers Through Radio Lobe Morphology
- Missing Link Found? --- The ``runaway'' path to supermassive black holes
- A Comparison of search templates for gravitational waves from binary inspiral
- Massive black hole seeds from low angular momentum material
- Massive Black Hole Binary Evolution
- A size of ~1 AU for the radio source Sgr A* at the centre of the Milky Way
- Black Holes in Astrophysics
- How black holes get their kicks: Gravitational radiation recoil revisited
- Dynamical friction and the evolution of satellites in virialized halos: the theory of linear response
- Dynamical Constraints On Alternatives To Massive Black Holes In Galactic Nuclei
- Eccentricity of supermassive black hole binaries coalescing from gas rich mergers
- LISA observations of rapidly spinning massive black hole binary systems
- Finding the Electromagnetic Counterparts of Cosmological Standard Sirens
- The Merger History of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies
- The gravitational wave signal from massive black hole binaries and its contribution to the LISA data stream
- Untangling the merger history of massive black holes with LISA
- Low-frequency gravitational waves from supermassive black holes
- Frequency-domain P-approximant filters for time-truncated inspiral gravitational wave signals from compact binaries
- Gravitational Waves from Supermassive Black Hole Coalescence in a Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Model
- Gravitational Recoil of Inspiralling Black-Hole Binaries to Second Post-Newtonian Order
- LISA double black holes: Dynamics in gaseous nuclear discs
- Dynamical evolution of intermediate mass black holes and their observable signatures in the nearby Universe
- Testing general relativity and probing the merger history of massive black holes with LISA
- Long-Term Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries. II. Binary Evolution in Low-Density Galaxies
- Gravitational Radiation from Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
- The Effect of Gravitational Recoil on Black Holes Forming in a Hierarchical Universe
- The nature of the HE0450-2958 System
- Probing General Relativity With Mergers of Supermassive and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
- Search techniques for gravitational waves from black-hole ringdowns
- Testing models of supermassive black hole seed formation through gravity waves
- Realistic Event Rates for Detection of Supermassive Black Hole Coalescence by LISA
- On the Rate of Detectability of Intermediate-Mass Black-Hole Binaries using LISA
- Three-Body Kick to a Bright Quasar out of Its Galaxy During a Merger
- Black Hole Binary Dynamics
- The information content of gravitational wave harmonics in compact binary inspiral
- Massive black hole remnants of the first stars III: observational signatures from the past
- Hierarchical build-up of galactic bulges and the merging rate of supermassive binary black holes
- Constraints on Alternatives to Supermassive Black Holes
Cited by in corpus (30)
- Quasinormal modes of black holes and black branes
- Quasinormal modes of black holes: from astrophysics to string theory
- Testing General Relativity with Present and Future Astrophysical Observations
- Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap
- Inspiral, merger and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries: a multipolar analysis
- Cosmological black hole spin evolution by mergers and accretion
- Matched-filtering and parameter estimation of ringdown waveforms
- LISA detections of massive black hole inspirals: parameter extraction errors due to inaccurate template waveforms
- Post-Circular Expansion of Eccentric Binary Inspirals: Fourier-Domain Waveforms in the Stationary Phase Approximation
- Quasinormal ringing of Kerr black holes: The excitation factors
- Accurate and efficient waveforms for compact binaries on eccentric orbits
- Characterization of the stochastic signal originating from compact binaries populations as measured by LISA
- Massive Black Hole Binary Inspirals: Results from the LISA Parameter Estimation Taskforce
- Ultralight boson cloud depletion in binary systems
- Gravitational memory in binary black hole mergers
- The Search for Massive Black Hole Binaries with LISA
- Systematic bias on parameterized tests of general relativity due to neglect of orbital eccentricity
- SuperRad: Modeling the black hole superradiance gravitational waveform
- Parameter estimation for coalescing massive binary black holes with LISA using the full 2-post-Newtonian gravitational waveform and spin-orbit precession
- A LISA Data-Analysis Primer
- Probing wave-optics effects and low-mass dark matter halos with lensing of gravitational waves from massive black holes
- Systematic bias from waveform modeling for binary black hole populations in next-generation gravitational wave detectors
- Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes
- High-energy neutrino emission subsequent to gravitational wave radiation from supermassive black hole mergers
- Testing the Speed of Gravity with Black Hole Ringdown
- Systematic biases from ignoring environmental tidal effects in gravitational wave observations
- Is there potential complementarity between LISA and pulsar timing?
- Systematic biases in parameter estimation on LISA binaries: The effect of excluding higher harmonics for non-spinning binaries
- Concept Study of a Storage Ring-based Gravitational Wave Observatory: Gravitational Wave Strain and Synchrotron Radiation Noise
- Facing the LISA Data Analysis Challenge