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Binary Black Hole Mergers and Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters with Collisional Runaways [PDF]
The Astronomical JournalIntermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are believed to be the missing link between the supermassive black holes (BHs) found at the centers of massive galaxies and BHs formed through stellar core collapse. One of the proposed mechanisms for their formation
Rujuta A. Purohit +4 more
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The Astrophysical JournalIntermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) mergers with masses 10 ^4 –10 ^6 M _⊙ are expected to produce gravitational waves detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) with high signal-to-noise ratios from the present day to cosmic dawn.
Fazeel Mahmood Khan +5 more
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Detecting intermediate-mass black holes using miniature pulsar timing arrays in globular clusters
Physical Review ResearchTheoretical models predict that intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) exist in globular clusters (GCs), but observational evidence remains elusive. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are abundant in GCs and have served as precise probes for gravitational ...
Xian Chen +5 more
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Galaxies, 2023 We study radio and X-ray emissions from intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) and explore the unified model for accretion and ejection processes. The radio band survey of IMBH (candidate) hosted galaxies indicates that only a small fraction (∼0.6%) of ...
Xiaolong Yang, Jun Yang
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The gravitational pull of an unseen companion to a luminous star is well known to cause deviations to the parallax and proper motion of a star. In a previous paper in this series, we argue that the astrometric mission Gaia can identify long-period ...
Jeff J. Andrews
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The Nature of the IMBH Candidate CXO J133815.6+043255: High-frequency Radio Emission
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The ultraluminous X-ray source CXO J133815.6+043255 is a strong candidate for a bona fide intermediate-mass black hole residing in the outskirts of NGC 5252.
Krista Lynne Smith +2 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We investigate the thermal condensation caused by a massive object that passes through the interstellar medium with high velocity, and propose a mechanism for creating a filamentary gaseous object, or interstellar contrail.
Kanta Kitajima, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka
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Demographics of Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Dense Star Clusters
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 With about one hundred mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) detected via gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, our understanding of the darkest objects in the universe has taken unparalleled steps forward.
Giacomo Fragione, Frederic A. Rasio
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Constraints on relic magnetic black holes
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 We present current direct and astrophysical limits on the cosmological abundance of black holes with extremal magnetic charge. Such black holes do not Hawking radiate, allowing those normally too light to survive to the present to do so.
Melissa D. Diamond, David E. Kaplan
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Synchronizing the EMRIs and IMRIs in AGN Accretion Disks
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) are important gravitational-wave (GW) sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).
Peng Peng, Xian Chen
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