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最亮AGN并未产生本地宇宙中探测到的大多数恒星级黑洞双星并合

The most luminous AGN do not produce the majority of the detected stellar-mass black hole binary mergers in the local Universe

Niccolò Veronesi, Elena Maria Rossi, Sjoert van Velzen

AI总结:

本文首次测试了引力波事件与活动星系核(AGN)的空间相关性,发现最亮AGN对本地宇宙中双黑洞并合的产生效率有限,并给出了AGN通道贡献的首个观测上限约束。

摘要:

尽管引力波(GW)探测数量不断增加,双黑洞(BBH)并合的天体物理起源仍然难以确定。BBH的一个有希望的形成通道是在为活动星系核(AGN)提供能量的超大质量黑洞周围的吸积盘内。本文首次测试了观测到的GW事件与AGN之间的空间相关性。为此,我们利用Milliquas目录7.7b版本汇编了全天目录,包含1,412(242)个热光度大于$10^{45.5} {\rm erg\\ s}^{-1}$($10^{46}\\,{\rm erg\\,s}^{-1}$)且光谱红移$z\leq0.3$的AGN。我们将这些AGN与LIGO和Virgo干涉仪在前三次观测运行中在同一红移范围内观测到的BBH并合的定位体积进行了交叉匹配。我们发现,在95%置信度下,起源于亮度大于$10^{45.5}\\,{\rm erg\\,s}^{-1}$($10^{46}\\,{\rm erg\\,s}^{-1}$)的AGN的探测并合比例不能高于0.49(0.17)。我们的上限意味着最亮AGN的BBH并合产生效率有限,而大多数或所有GW事件可能仍来自较低光度的AGN。或者,并合恒星级BBH的AGN形成路径在本地宇宙中可能实际上是总体上不占主导地位的。据我们所知,我们的研究是对AGN通道对观测到的BBH并合分数贡献的首次观测约束。

英文摘要:

Despite the increasing number of Gravitational Wave (GW) detections, the astrophysical origin of Binary Black Hole (BBH) mergers remains elusive. A promising formation channel for BBHs is inside accretion discs around supermassive black holes, that power Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). In this paper, we test for the first time the spatial correlation between observed GW events and AGN. To this end, we assemble all sky catalogues with 1,412 (242) AGN with a bolometric luminosity greater than $10^{45.5} {\rm erg\ s}^{-1}$ ($10^{46}\,{\rm erg\,s}^{-1}$) with spectroscopic redshift of $z\leq0.3$ from the Milliquas catalogue, version 7.7b. These AGN are cross-matched with localisation volumes of BBH mergers observed in the same redshift range by the LIGO and Virgo interferometers during their first three observing runs. We find that the fraction of the detected mergers originated in AGN brighter than $10^{45.5}\,{\rm erg\,s}^{-1}$ ($10^{46}\,{\rm erg\,s}^{-1}$) cannot be higher than $0.49$ ($0.17$) at a 95 per cent credibility level. Our upper limits imply a limited BBH merger production efficiency of the brightest AGN, while most or all GW events may still come from lower luminosity ones. Alternatively, the AGN formation path for merging stellar-mass BBHs may be actually overall subdominant in the local Universe. To our knowledge, ours are the first observational constraints on the fractional contribution of the AGN channel to the observed BBH mergers.

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