• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Prospects of eLISA for detecting Galactic binary black holes similar to GW150914
  • Beteiligte: Seto, Naoki
  • Erschienen: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016
  • Erschienen in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw060
  • ISSN: 1745-3925; 1745-3933
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We discuss the prospects of eLISA for detecting gravitational waves (GWs) from Galactic binary black holes (BBHs) similar to GW150914. For a comoving merger rate that is consistent with current observation, eLISA is likely to identify at least one BBH with a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio. In addition, eLISA has a potential to measure the eccentricity of the BBH as small as e ∼ 0.02, corresponding to the residual value e ∼ 10−6 at 10 Hz. Therefore, eLISA could provide us with a crucial information to understand the formation processes of relatively massive BBHs like GW150914. We also derive a simple scaling relation for the expected number of detectable Galactic BBHs.</jats:p>
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