Gravitational-wave spectroscopy of massive black holes with the space interferometer LISA

By Emanuele Berti, V. Cardoso, C. Will. 2005

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Newly formed black holes are expected to emit characteristic radiation in the form of quasinormal modes, called ringdown waves, with discrete frequencies. LISA should be able to detect the ringdown waves emitted by oscillating supermassive black holes throughout the observable Universe. We develop a multimode formalism, applicable to any interferometric detectors, for detecting ringdown signals, for estimating black-hole parameters from those signals, and for testing the no-hair theorem of general relativity. Focusing on LISA, we use current models of its sensitivity to compute the expected signal-to-noise ratio for ringdown events, the relative parameter estimation accuracy, and the resolvability of different modes. We also discuss the extent to which uncertainties on physical parameters, such as the black-hole spin and the energy emitted in each mode, will affect our ability to do black-hole spectroscopy.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Ilya Mandel
2. D. Holz
3. Emanuele Berti
4. Paolo Pani
5. V. Cardoso
6. Bernard F. Schutz
7. Michela Mapelli
8. C. Berry

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. Paolo Pani
2. V. Cardoso
3. R. Brito
4. M. Volonteri
5. Cosimo Bambi
6. Emanuele Berti
7. Ilya Mandel
8. J. Healy

Citations in the corpus

• Modeling ringdown: Beyond the fundamental quasinormal modes (2014, methodology): “This aspect of the algorithm complicates the process of estimating BH final mass and spin [25].”
• Cosmological Black Hole Spin Evolution by Mergers and Accretion (2008, background): “These plots are useful to isolate the contribution of mergers to the spin evolution of the whole BH population, and they are of direct interest for LISA observations of massive BH inspiral, merger and ringdown (Berti et al. 2005, 2006; Lang & Hughes 2006; Kocsis et al. 2007).”
• Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run (2016, background): “more sensitive to the total mass [90]; hence, the bestmeasured parameters depend upon the mass [91–93].”