A Sea of Black Holes: Characterizing the LISA Signature for Stellar-Origin Black Hole Binaries

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Main Authors: Ruiz-Rocha, Krystal, Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Jani, Karan, Mapelli, Michela, Dunham, Samuel, Gabella, William
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author Ruiz-Rocha, Krystal
Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
Jani, Karan
Mapelli, Michela
Dunham, Samuel
Gabella, William
author_facet Ruiz-Rocha, Krystal
Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
Jani, Karan
Mapelli, Michela
Dunham, Samuel
Gabella, William
contents Observations by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA (LVK) detectors have provided new insights in the demographics of stellar-origin black hole binaries (sBHB). A few years before gravitational-wave signals from sBHB mergers are recorded in the LVK detectors, their early coalescence will leave a unique signature in the ESA/NASA mission Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Multiband observations of sBHB sources between LISA and LVK detectors opens an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the astrophysical environment and multi-messenger early-alerts. In this study, we report the sBHB sources that will be present in the LISA data derived directly from the hydrodynamic cosmological simulation Illustris. By surveying snapshots across cosmological volume, metallicity and look-back time, we find that about tens to thousand sBHB candidates will be present in the LISA data for various combinations of mission lifetime. For estimates consistent with the LVK rates, we find that only 20 sBHBs across Illustris snapshots will be detected with significant confidence for a 10-year LISA mission, while a 4-year LISA mission would detect only 2 sBHBs. Our work paves the way for creating LISA mock data and bench marking LISA detection pipelines directly using cosmological simulations.
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spellingShingle A Sea of Black Holes: Characterizing the LISA Signature for Stellar-Origin Black Hole Binaries
Ruiz-Rocha, Krystal
Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
Jani, Karan
Mapelli, Michela
Dunham, Samuel
Gabella, William
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Observations by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA (LVK) detectors have provided new insights in the demographics of stellar-origin black hole binaries (sBHB). A few years before gravitational-wave signals from sBHB mergers are recorded in the LVK detectors, their early coalescence will leave a unique signature in the ESA/NASA mission Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Multiband observations of sBHB sources between LISA and LVK detectors opens an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the astrophysical environment and multi-messenger early-alerts. In this study, we report the sBHB sources that will be present in the LISA data derived directly from the hydrodynamic cosmological simulation Illustris. By surveying snapshots across cosmological volume, metallicity and look-back time, we find that about tens to thousand sBHB candidates will be present in the LISA data for various combinations of mission lifetime. For estimates consistent with the LVK rates, we find that only 20 sBHBs across Illustris snapshots will be detected with significant confidence for a 10-year LISA mission, while a 4-year LISA mission would detect only 2 sBHBs. Our work paves the way for creating LISA mock data and bench marking LISA detection pipelines directly using cosmological simulations.
title A Sea of Black Holes: Characterizing the LISA Signature for Stellar-Origin Black Hole Binaries
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21161