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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 739, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/739/2/86
关键词
binaries: close; cosmology: miscellaneous; gravitational waves
资金
- Australian Research Council
- W.A. Government Center of Excellence
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10825313, 11073005]
- Ministry of Science and Technology [2007CB815401]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Scientific Research Foundation of Beijing Normal University
We estimate the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background signal from the field population of coalescing binary stellar mass black holes (BHs) throughout the universe. This study is motivated by recent observations of BH-Wolf-Rayet (WR) star systems and by new estimates in the metallicity abundances of star-forming galaxies that imply BH-BH systems are more common than previously assumed. Using recent analytical results of the inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms for coalescing binary BH systems, we estimate the resulting stochastic GW background signal. Assuming average quantities for the single source energy emissions, we explore the parameter space of chirp mass and local rate density required for detection by advanced and third-generation interferometric GW detectors. For an average chirp mass of 8.7 M-circle dot, we find that detection through 3 years of cross-correlation by two advanced detectors will require a rate density, r(0) >= 0.5Mpc(-3) Myr(-1). Combining data from multiple pairs of detectors can reduce this limit by up to 40%. Investigating the full parameter space we find that detection could be achieved at rates r(0) similar to 0.1Mpc(-3) Myr(-1) for populations of coalescing binary BH systems with average chirp masses of similar to 15M(circle dot) which are predicted by recent studies of BH-WR star systems. While this scenario is at the high end of theoretical estimates, cross-correlation of data by two Einstein Telescopes could detect this signal under the condition r(0) >= 10(-3)Mpc(-3) Myr(-1). Such a signal could potentially mask a primordial GW background signal of dimensionless energy density, Omega(GW) similar to 10(-1)0, around the (1-500) Hz frequency range.
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