Formation of short-period black hole binary systems from Population III stars as grativational wave radiation sources

  • Lee, Hunchul (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Yoon, Sung-Chul (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2017.04.10

Abstract

Massive Population III black hole binary systems are one of the suggested candidate sources of the recently detected gravitational wave radiation (GWR). GWR detection from a black hole binary system requires a sufficiently short orbital separation at the time of their formation, such that they would undergo coalescence within the Hubble time. This condition cannot be simply fulfilled by a short initial period, because binary interactions such as mass transfer and common envelope evolution can largely change the orbital parameters and the masses of stellar components. Here, we discuss the possibility of black hole binary mergers from massive Pop III binary systems, using a new grid of Pop III binary evolutionary models with various initial primary masses ($20M_{\odot}{\leq}M{\leq}100M_{\odot}$) and initial separations, for different initial mass ratios (q = 0.5 - 0.9).

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