Central Cluster Galaxies: A Hotspot for Detectable Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers
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| author | Zhou, Yihao Di Matteo, Tiziana Chen, Nianyi Kelley, Luke Zoltan Blecha, Laura Ni, Yueying Bird, Simeon Yang, Yanhui Croft, Rupert |
| author_facet | Zhou, Yihao Di Matteo, Tiziana Chen, Nianyi Kelley, Luke Zoltan Blecha, Laura Ni, Yueying Bird, Simeon Yang, Yanhui Croft, Rupert |
| contents | After Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have announced the evidence for a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB), the continuous waves (CWs) are the next anticipated gravitational wave (GW) signals. In this work, we model CW sources detectable by PTAs based on the massive black hole (MBH) merger population in the ASTRID cosmological simulation. We evolve MBH binaries, simulate their GW emissions, and calculate their detection probability (DP) for PTAs. The most detectable CW sources are produced by MBH mergers with masses M_BH > 10^10 solarmass in the lowest frequency bins with f<10 nHz. Remarkably, these mergers occur within massive galaxies with the stellar mass larger than 10^12 solarmass located at the center of galaxy clusters. Particularly striking in ASTRID is a triple merger event, wherein two consecutive mergers occur within 500 Myr interval in the same cluster core, generating high-DP CW signals at ~ 2nHz and ~ 10nHz. We also investigate the electromagnetic (EM) signatures associated with these events: either single or dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the massive host galaxies that are undergoing star formation. This research provides new insights into the low-frequency GW sky and informs future multi-messenger searches for PTA CW sources. |
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| spellingShingle | Central Cluster Galaxies: A Hotspot for Detectable Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers Zhou, Yihao Di Matteo, Tiziana Chen, Nianyi Kelley, Luke Zoltan Blecha, Laura Ni, Yueying Bird, Simeon Yang, Yanhui Croft, Rupert Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics After Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have announced the evidence for a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB), the continuous waves (CWs) are the next anticipated gravitational wave (GW) signals. In this work, we model CW sources detectable by PTAs based on the massive black hole (MBH) merger population in the ASTRID cosmological simulation. We evolve MBH binaries, simulate their GW emissions, and calculate their detection probability (DP) for PTAs. The most detectable CW sources are produced by MBH mergers with masses M_BH > 10^10 solarmass in the lowest frequency bins with f<10 nHz. Remarkably, these mergers occur within massive galaxies with the stellar mass larger than 10^12 solarmass located at the center of galaxy clusters. Particularly striking in ASTRID is a triple merger event, wherein two consecutive mergers occur within 500 Myr interval in the same cluster core, generating high-DP CW signals at ~ 2nHz and ~ 10nHz. We also investigate the electromagnetic (EM) signatures associated with these events: either single or dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the massive host galaxies that are undergoing star formation. This research provides new insights into the low-frequency GW sky and informs future multi-messenger searches for PTA CW sources. |
| title | Central Cluster Galaxies: A Hotspot for Detectable Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01845 |