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超新星撞击能触发银河系中心的EMRI吗?

Can supernova kicks trigger EMRIs in the Galactic Centre?

Elisa Bortolas, Michela Mapelli

摘要:

由即将到来的LISA天文台探测到的最有希望的引力波(GW)源之一是所谓的极端质量比吸气(EMRI),即恒星质量致密物体对超大质量黑洞(SMBH)的GW驱动吸气。在本文中,我们认为,超新星(SN)踢可能会触发EMRI在星系核的散射新生恒星黑洞和中子星在极偏心轨道,因此,这些紧凑的对象预计通过GW发射到中央SMBH螺旋的时间尺度可能会变得比其他轨道扰动发生的时间尺度短。通过将这一论点应用于银河系中心,我们表明,S-集群和顺时针盘是产生这种事件的最佳区域:在S-集群(顺时针盘)中发生的约10 000(100 000)个SN中的一个预计将引起EMRI。如果我们假设影响恒星黑洞的出生反冲比中子星经历的要慢得多,我们会发现大多数SN驱动的EMRI都涉及中子星。我们进一步估计,从SN到最后陷入SMBH的时间跨度是几百万年的顺序。最后,我们推断每个银河系中SN驱动的EMRI的速率高达10^-8/年,因此我们预计LISA每年将检测到数十个SN驱动的EMRI。

英文摘要:

One of the most promising gravitational wave (GW) sources detectable by the forthcoming LISA observatory are the so-called extreme-mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. GW-driven inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In this paper, we suggest that supernova (SN) kicks may trigger EMRIs in galactic nuclei by scattering newborn stellar black holes and neutron stars on extremely eccentric orbits; as a consequence, the time-scale over which these compact objects are expected to inspiral onto the central SMBH via GW emission may become shorter than the time-scale for other orbital perturbations to occur. By applying this argument to the Galactic Centre, we show that the S-cluster and the clockwise disc are optimal regions for the generation of such events: one SN out of about 10 000 (100 000) occurring in the S-cluster (clockwise disc) is expected to induce an EMRI. If we assume that the natal kicks affecting stellar black holes are significantly slower than those experienced by neutron stars, we find that most SN-driven EMRIs involve neutron stars. We further estimate the time spanning from the SN to the final plunge onto the SMBH to be of the order of few Myr. Finally, we extrapolate the rate of SN-driven EMRIs per Milky Way to be up to 10^-8/yr, thus we expect that LISA will detect up to a few tens of SN-driven EMRIs every year.

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