Rapid merger of binary primordial black holes: An implication for GW150914
Abstract
We propose a new scenario for the evolution of the binaries of primordial black holes (PBH). We consider dynamical friction by ambient dark matter, scattering of dark matter particles with a highly eccentric orbit besides the standard two-body relaxation process to refill the loss cone, and interaction between the binary and a circumbinary disk, assuming that PBHs do not constitute the bulk of dark matter. Binary PBHs lose the energy and angular momentum by these processes, which could be sufficiently efficient for a typical configuration. Such a binary coalesces due to the gravitational wave emission on a time scale much shorter than the age of the universe. We estimate the density parameter of the resultant gravitational wave background. Astrophysical implications concerning the formation of intermediate-mass to supermassive black holes is also discussed.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- August 2016
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0909.1738
- Bibcode:
- 2016PASJ...68...66H
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion disks;
- black hole physics;
- galaxies: evolution;
- gravitational waves;
- quasars: general;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, no figure. Accepted for publication in PASJ