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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 472, 期 2, 页码 2422-2435出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2123
关键词
black hole physics; gravitational waves; methods: numerical; stars: black holes; stars: mass-loss
资金
- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) [FIRB 2012 RBFR12PM1F]
- INAF [PRIN-2014-14]
- MERAC Foundation
The cosmic merger rate density of black hole binaries (BHBs) can give us an essential clue to constraining the formation channels of BHBs, in light of current and forthcoming gravitational wave detections. Following a Monte Carlo approach, we couple new population-synthesis models of BHBs with the Illustris cosmological simulation, to study the cosmic history of BHB mergers. We explore six population-synthesis models, varying the prescriptions for supernovae, common envelope and natal kicks. In most considered models, the cosmic BHB merger rate follows the same trend as the cosmic star formation rate. The normalization of the cosmic BHB merger rate strongly depends on the treatment of common envelope and on the distribution of natal kicks. We find that most BHBs merging within LIGO's instrumental horizon come from relatively metal-poor progenitors (< 0.2 Z(circle dot)). The total masses of merging BHBs span a large range of values, from similar to 6 to similar to 82 M-circle dot. In our fiducial model, merging BHBs consistent with GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104 represent similar to 6, 3 and 12 per cent of all BHBs merging within the LIGO horizon, respectively. The heavy systems, like GW150914, come from metal-poor progenitors (< 0.15 Z(circle dot)). Most GW150914-like systems merging in the local Universe appear to have formed at high redshift, with a long delay time. In contrast, GW151226-like systems form and merge all the way through the cosmic history, from progenitors with a broad range of metallicities. Future detections will be crucial to put constraints on common envelope, on natal kicks, and on the BHB mass function.
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