期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 715, 期 2, 页码 1117-1131出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1117
关键词
black hole physics; galaxies: nuclei; gravitational waves
资金
- NSF [0653443, 0855892, 0914553, 0941417, 0903973]
- NASA [PF9-00061]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0855892, 0914553, 0925345, 0855423, 0903973] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [904015, 0653443] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0941417] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Coincident detections of electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational wave (GW) signatures from coalescence events of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are the next observational grand challenge. Such detections will provide the means to study cosmological evolution and accretion processes associated with these gargantuan compact objects. More generally, the observations will enable testing general relativity in the strong, nonlinear regime and will provide independent cosmological measurements to high precision. Understanding the conditions under which coincidences of EM and GW signatures arise during SMBH mergers is therefore of paramount importance. As an essential step toward this goal, we present results from the first fully general relativistic, hydrodynamical study of the late inspiral and merger of equal-mass, spinning SMBH binaries in a gas cloud. We find that variable EM signatures correlated with GWs can arise in merging systems as a consequence of shocks and accretion combined with the effect of relativistic beaming. The most striking EM variability is observed for systems where spins are aligned with the orbital axis and where orbiting black holes form a stable set of density wakes, but all systems exhibit some characteristic signatures that can be utilized in searches for EM counterparts. In the case of the most massive binaries observable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, calculated luminosities imply that they may be identified by EM searches to z approximate to 1, while lower mass systems and binaries immersed in low density ambient gas can only be detected in the local universe.
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