The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)
- Volume 41 Issue 1
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- Pages.68.1-68.1
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- 2016
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Effect of stellar mass blck holes in the globular clusters on the detection rate of binary black hole mergers
- Park, Dawoo (Seoul National University) ;
- Kim, Chunglee (Seoul National University) ;
- Lee, Hyung Mok (Seoul National University) ;
- Bae, Yeong-Bok (Seoul National University)
- Published : 2016.04.12
Abstract
Binary black hole mergers are one of the important candidate of gravitational wave (GW) emission. Recently a successful GW observation was done by LIGO team, but it is still uncertain how many GW signals will be observable. In this research, we perform simplified N-body simulations containing three mass components, ordinary stars with two kind of stellar mass black holes. Various BH compositions are tested to investigate the effect of BH mass function on binary formation rate. As a result, we find the binary formation rate is not much affected by BH mass function and always around 30 %, but the detectable merging binaries are largely depend on higher mass BH population.
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