Prospects for Detection of Extragalactic Stellar Black Hole Binaries in the Nearby Universe. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Benacquista, Matthew; Hinojosa, Jesus; Mata, Alberto; Belczynski, Krzysztof
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Number 610(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/610/1/012049
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Abstract: Stellar mass black hole binaries have individual masses between 10-80 solar masses. These systems may emit gravitational waves at frequencies detectable at Megaparsec distances by space-based gravitational wave observatories. In a previous study, we determined the selection effects of observing these systems with detectors similar to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna by using a generated population of binary black holes that covered a reasonable parameter space and calculating their signal-to-noise ratio. We further our study by populating the galaxies in our nearby (less than 30 Mpc) universe with binary black hole systems drawn from a distribution found in the Synthetic Universe to ultimately investigate the likely event rate of detectable binaries from galaxies in the nearby universe.