Estimating the detectable rate of capture of stellar mass black holes by massive central black holes in normal galaxies

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14 January 1997

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9701079

Abstract

The capture and subsequent inspiral of stellar mass black holes on eccentric orbits by central massive black holes, is one of the more interesting likely sources of gravitational radiation detectable by LISA. We estimate the rate of observable events and the associated uncertainties. A moderately favourable mass function could provide many detectable bursts each year, and a detection of at least one burst per year is very likely given our current understanding of the populations in cores of normal spiral galaxies.

Keywords

STELLAR MASS BLACK
MASS BLACK HOLES
CENTRAL MASSIVE
UNCERTAINTIES
DETECTABLE
GALAXIES

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Version 1, 1997-01-14, ArXiv
Published version: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 14 (6), 1425.

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