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arXiv 1807.09281astro-ph.GAastro-ph.HE
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星系核中的中等质量比吸气

Intermediate-Mass Ratio Inspirals in Galactic Nuclei

Giacomo Fragione, Nathan Leigh

摘要:

本文研究了星系核中由中等质量和恒星质量黑洞组成的双星(分别为IMBH和SBH)围绕中心超大质量黑洞(SMBH)的长期动力学演化。这样的BH三联体可以通过球状星团的内旋向星系核形成,这是由于动力学摩擦,甚至是大/小星系合并。我们执行,合理的初始条件,我们证明,复杂的$N$体模拟,包括正则化和后牛顿修正。我们发现,质量分离结合Kozai-Lidov振荡诱导的主要SMBH可以有效地合并IMBH-SBH双星的时间尺度比引力波发射单独短得多。此外,在本地宇宙中,这种极端质量比吸气的速率可能很高($\sim 1\ \mathrm{Gpc}^{-3}\ \mathrm{yr}^{-1}$),但预计这些与最近的GC坠落或主要/次要合并有关,使这些事件的观测特征(例如,潮汐碎片)是搜索SMBH-IMBH-SBH合并的良好诊断方法。一小部分也可能与潮汐中断事件的IMBH-SBH在inspiral。

英文摘要:

In this paper, we study the secular dynamical evolution of binaries composed of intermediate-mass and stellar-mass black holes (IMBHs and SBHs, respectively) in orbit about a central super-massive black hole (SMBH) in galactic nuclei. Such BH triplets could form via the inspiral of globular clusters toward galactic nuclei due to dynamical friction, or even major/minor galaxy mergers. We perform, for reasonable initial conditions that we justify, sophisticated $N$-body simulations that include both regularization and Post-Newtonian corrections. We find that mass segregation combined with Kozai-Lidov oscillations induced by the primary SMBH can effectively merge IMBH-SBH binaries on time-scales much shorter than gravitational wave emission alone. Moreover, the rate of such extreme mass ratio inspirals could be high ($\sim 1\ \mathrm{Gpc}^{-3}\ \mathrm{yr}^{-1}$) in the local Universe, but these are expected to be associated with recent GC infall or major/minor mergers, making the observational signatures of such events (e.g., tidal debris) good diagnostics for searching for SMBH-IMBH-SBH mergers. A small fraction could also be associated with tidal disruption events by the IMBH-SBH during inspiral.

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