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Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Nuclei: Combined Effects of Secular Dynamics and Stellar Flybys
Hao Wang, Bin Liu, Johan Samsing
Galactic nuclei, with the central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and surrounding dense star clusters, serve as natural laboratories for studying gravitational dynamics in extreme…
The Universal Eccentricity Distribution for Dynamical Gravitational-Wave Merger Channels
Mor Rozner, Teagan A. Clarke, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw +1
We argue that all dynamical astrophysical black hole merger channels are expected to result in a common eccentricity distribution at gravitational wave (GW) frequencies relevant fo…
Orbital eccentricity can make neutron star g-mode resonances observable with current gravitational-wave detectors
János Takátsy, Lorenz Zwick, Pankaj Saini +1
Dynamical tides can provide us vital information about the properties of neutron star (NS) matter. This is particularly true for g-modes, whose frequency and tidal coupling are hig…
Towards gravitational wave parameter inference for binaries with an eccentric companion
Kai Hendriks, Lorenz Zwick, Pankaj Saini +2
We introduce a complete model for dephasing due to line-of-sight acceleration (LOSA) in gravitational wave (GW) signals from stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) in three-body sy…
Probing the Formation Environment of Strongly Lensed Black Hole Mergers: Implications for the AGN-disk Channel
Johan Samsing, Lorenz Zwick, Pankaj Saini +1
The observation of multiple images from a strongly lensed gravitational wave (GW) source provides the observer with a stereoscopic view of the source. This allows for a measure of…
Gravitational Wave Phase shifts of black hole mergers in AGN Disks
Hiromichi Tagawa, Connar Rowan, János Takátsy +4
Ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors have discovered about 200 compact object mergers. The astrophysical origins of these events are highly debated, and it is possible th…
Environmental effects in stellar mass gravitational wave sources II: Enhanced detectability of phase shifts in eccentric sub-populations
Lorenz Zwick, Kai Hendriks, Pankaj Saini +4
We demonstrate that the properties of eccentric gravitational wave (GW) signals enhance the detectability of GW phase shifts caused by environmental effects (EEs): The signal-to-no…
Spin-Orbit Misalignments of Eccentric Black Hole Mergers in AGN Disks
Gaia Fabj, Christopher Tiede, Connar Rowan +2
The disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide a natural environment where stellar-mass black holes (BHs) can dynamically pair, undergo repeated interactions, and eventually me…
Amplified capture rate of dark matter in compact binaries and constraints on bosonic dark matter from GW170817
János Takátsy, Lorenz Zwick, David O'Neill +1
The accretion of dark matter (DM) onto compact objects and the potential gravitational collapse of neutron stars due to this accretion has become a promising indirect probe of DM p…
Dynamical Evolution of Quasi-Hierarchical Triples
Yonadav Barry Ginat, Jakob Stegmann, Johan Samsing
We study the gravitational dynamics of quasi-hierarchical triple systems, where the outer orbital period is significantly longer than the inner one, but the outer orbit is extremel…
GW200208_222617 as an eccentric black-hole binary merger: properties and astrophysical implications
Isobel Romero-Shaw, Jakob Stegmann, Hiromichi Tagawa +4
Detecting orbital eccentricity in a stellar-mass black-hole merger would point to a non-isolated formation channel. Eccentric binaries can form in dense stellar environments such a…
Dissecting environmental effects with eccentric gravitational wave sources
Lorenz Zwick, Kai Hendriks, David O'Neill +6
We model the effect of resonances between time-varying perturbative forces and the epi-cyclical motion of eccentric binaries in the gravitational wave (GW) driven regime. These ind…
The construction and use of dephasing prescriptions for environmental effects in gravitational wave astronomy
János Takátsy, Lorenz Zwick, Kai Hendriks +3
In the first part of this work, we provide a curated overview of the theoretical framework necessary for incorporating dephasing due to environmental effects (EE) in gravitational…
Environmental effects in stellar mass gravitational wave sources I: Expected fraction of signals with significant dephasing in the dynamical and AGN channels
Lorenz Zwick, János Takátsy, Pankaj Saini +5
We present the first overview of the expected quantity of signals which will showcase significant gravitational wave phase shifts caused by astrophysical environments, considering…
Constraining Proper Motion of Strongly Lensed Eccentric Binary Mergers using Doppler Triangulation
Johan Samsing, Lorenz Zwick, Pankaj Saini +5
Strong lensing of gravitational wave (GW) sources allows the observer to see the GW source from different lines-of-sight (LOS) through the corresponding images, which provides a wa…
Measuring the Transverse Velocity of Strongly Lensed Gravitational Wave Sources with Ground Based Detectors
Johan Samsing, Lorenz Zwick, Pankaj Saini +7
Observations of strongly gravitationally lensed gravitational wave (GW) sources provide a unique opportunity for constraining their transverse motion, which otherwise is exceedingl…
Large Gravitational Wave Phase Shifts from Strong 3-body Interactions in Dense Stellar Clusters
Kai Hendriks, Dany Atallah, Miguel Martinez +6
The phase evolution of gravitational waves (GWs) can be modulated by the astrophysical environment surrounding the source, which provides a probe for the origin of individual binar…
The formation of mini-AGN disks around IMBHs and their dynamical implications
Mor Rozner, Alessandro A. Trani, Johan Samsing +1
This study explores the formation and implications of mini-active galactic nuclei (mAGN) disks around intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) embedded in gas-rich globular/nuclear cl…
Gravitational Wave Phase Shifts in Eccentric Black Hole Mergers as a Probe of Dynamical Formation Environments
Johan Samsing, Kai Hendriks, Lorenz Zwick +2
We quantify for the first time the gravitational wave (GW) phase shift appearing in the waveform of eccentric binary black hole (BBH) mergers formed dynamically in three-body syste…
Gaseous Dynamical Friction on Elliptical Keplerian Orbits
David O'Neill, Daniel J. D'Orazio, Johan Samsing +1
We compute the Gaseous Dynamical Friction (GDF) force experienced by massive perturbers on elliptical Keplerian orbits. In this paper, we investigate the density wake morphology, d…
Uncovering a hidden black hole binary from secular eccentricity variations of a tertiary star
Bin Liu, Daniel J. D'Orazio, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez +1
We study the dynamics of a solar-type star orbiting around a black hole binary (BHB) in a nearly coplanar system. We present a novel effect that can prompt a growth and significant…
Multi-Messenger Constraints on Magnetic Fields in Merging Black Hole-Neutron Star Binaries
Daniel J. D'Orazio, Zoltan Haiman, Janna Levin +2
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration recently detected gravitational waves (GWs) from the merger of black-hole-neutron-star (BHNS) binary systems GW200105 and GW200115. No coincident…
Mass-gap Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei
Hiromichi Tagawa, Bence Kocsis, Zoltan Haiman +3
The recently discovered gravitational wave sources GW190521 and GW190814 have shown evidence of BH mergers with masses and spins that could be outside of the range expected from is…
Gravitational Waves as a Probe of Globular Cluster Formation and Evolution
Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Kyle Kremer, Paul D. Lasky +2
Globular clusters are considered to be likely breeding grounds for compact binary mergers. In this paper, we demonstrate how the gravitational-wave signals produced by compact obje…