Multi-band gravitational wave astronomy: science with joint space- and ground-based observations of black hole binaries

11th International LISA Symposium

Sesana, Alberto^1

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham

B15 2TT, United Kingdom^1

关键词: Audio bands;    Coalescence rate;    Dwarf binaries;    Frequency drifts;    Frequency ranges;    Ground-based observations;    Laser interferometer space antenna;    Massive systems;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/840/1/012018/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/840/1/012018

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Soon after the observation of the first black hole binary (BHB) by advanced LIGO (aLIGO), GW150914, it was realised that such a massive system would have been observable in the milli-Hz (mHz) band few years prior to coalescence. Operating in the frequency range 0.1-100 mHz, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can potentially detect up to thousands inspiralling BHBs, based on the coalescence rates inferred from the aLIGO first observing run (O1). The vast majority of them (those emitting at f10 mHz however, several of them will sweep through the LISA band, eventually producing loud coalescences in the audio-band probed by aLIGO. This contribution reviews the scientific potential of these new class of LISA sources which, in the past few months, has been investigated in several contexts, including multi-messenger and multi-band gravitational wave astronomy, BHB astrophysics, tests of alternative theories of gravity and cosmography.