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Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational WaveDriven Phase
Jeremy Schnittman
NASA Goddard
UM Black HolesAugest 24, 2011
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
Motivation
Observing supermassive black hole mergers will teach us about
Relativity
High-energy Astrophysics
RadiationHydrodynamics
Cosmology
Galaxy Formation andEvolution
Stellar Evolution
Dark Matter
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
Motivation
Observing supermassive black hole mergers will teach us about
Relativity
High-energy Astrophysics
RadiationHydrodynamics
Cosmology
Galaxy Formation andEvolution
Stellar Evolution
Dark Matter
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
Time scales
“final parsec” problem (maybe) not such a big problem after all
Faber & Rasio (2000)Faber & Rasio (2001)Shibata et al. (2003)
Analytic Newtonian hydro Relativistic hydro
Bloom et al. (2009)
O’Neill et al. (2009)Megevand et al. (2009)
Demorest et al. (2009)Jenet et al. (2009)Madau et al. (2009)Miller et al. (2009)Nandra et al. (2009)Owen (2009)
Phinney (2009)Prince (2009)Schutz et al. (2009)Stamatikos et al. (2009)
Astro 2010 white papers
Corrales et al. (2009)
MacFadyen & Milos. (2008)
Armitage & Natarajan (2002)Hayasaki et al. (2008)
Shields & Bonning (2008)JS & Krolik (2008)Lippai et al. (2008)Kocsis & Loeb (2008)Krolik (2010)Chang et al. (2009)
Anderson et al. (2010)
Palenzuela et al. (2009)Bode et al. (2009)van Meter et al. (2010)Farris et al. (2010)
Shapiro (2010)Haiman et al. (2010)Tanaka & Menou (2010)
Rossi et al. (2010) Palenzuela et al. (2010)Mosta et al. (2010)Zanotti et al. (2010)
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
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Even small amount of gas leads to bright EM signal
energy content of gas dominated by gravitational potential:
Egas ∼ εΣR2 (ε ≈ 0.01− 0.1)
cooling time for optically thick gas:
tcool =τh
c∼ ε1/2ΣR3/2,
giving “universal” luminosity:
dL
d lnR≈ ε1/2R1/2LEdd ∼ 1044 M6 erg/s
Krolik (2010)
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
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Test particle simulations ⇒ ultra-relativistic flows
234567
234567
Max
imum
Lor
entz
Fac
tor
-600 -500 -400 -300 -200 -100 0 100Time [M]
234567
Isolated, Nonrotating
Nonrotating, 5 orbits to merger
Rotating, 5 orbits to merger
10-5
10-4
10-3
10-2
IsolatedNonrotatingRotating
10-5
10-4
10-3
10-2
Frac
tion
of P
artic
les
with
Out
flows
γ >
γ c
-700 -600 -500 -400 -300 -200 -100 0 100Time [M]
10-5
10-4
10-3
10-2
γc = 1.2
γc = 1.4
γc = 1.5
10-510-410-310-210-1100
10-510-410-310-210-1100
Frac
tion
of P
artic
les
with
Out
flow
γ > γ c
10-510-410-310-210-1100
-700 -600 -500 -400 -300 -200 -100 0 100Time [M]
10-510-410-310-210-1100 Isolated
NonrotatingRotating
γc = 1.2
γc = 1.5
γc = 2
γc = 3
van Meter et al.(2010)
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
Hydro plus NR ⇒ strong shocks, heating
Bode et al.(2010)
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
Hydro plus NR ⇒ strong shocks, heating
Bode et al.(2010)
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
but just one question...
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
...will there be any gas?
circumbinary disk clears out a gap around the BHs:
MacFadyen & Milosavljevic (2008)
after disk decouples (tGW < tinflow), could be even less gas
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
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Need grid-based 3D MHD simulations
−2 −1 0 1 2
−2
−1
0
1
2
−4
−3
−2
−1
0
t=300.5
Shi, Krolik, & Lubow (2011)
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
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Clear periodic accretion
360 380 400 420 440 460 480t(Ωbin
−1 )
0.00
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
−dM
/dt(
(GM
a)1/
2 Σ 0)
0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0ω(Ωbin )
0.000
0.005
0.010
0.015
0.020
0.025
0.030
pow
er s
pect
ral d
ensi
ty
Shi, Krolik, & Lubow (2011)
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
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Classical Lagrange points in restricted 3-body problem
µ2 = m2/M = 0.2 µ2 = m2/M = 0.02
µcrit ≈ 0.0385JS 2010
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
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Applications
formation mechanisms:
tidal capture of GC+IMBHsupermassive star formation in accretion diskgas leaking from circumbinary diskIMBH+MS star
observables:
tidal disruption eventshyper-velocity starsenhanced star formationhighly-shifted emission linesaccretion burst prior to mergereffect on gravitational waveforms
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
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Tidal disruption of stars during inspiral
Rtd,∗ = 2R∗(
MBHM∗
)1/3
M1 = 106M, µ2 = 1/50 M1 = 107M, µ2 = 1/50
0.01 0.10 1.00 10.00 100.00 1000.0010000.00days before merger
1011
1012
1013
1014
a (c
m)
Rtd, O/B
Rtd, sun
Rtd, WD
0.01 0.10 1.00 10.00 100.00 1000.0010000.00days before merger
1011
1012
1013
1014
a (c
m)
Rtd, O/B
Rtd, sun
Rtd, WD
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
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What do we do next—theory
cosmological N-body plus hydro
high-resolution N-body simulations of galactic nuclei
Newtonian regime: grid-based code vs. geodesics/SPH
good initial conditions for circumbinary disk
full NR+MHD
radiation post-processing
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
What do we do next—observations
dual AGN: HST imaging, field integral spectroscopy
LISA counterparts/precursors: wide-field time domain surveys(Pan-STARRS, LSST, MAXI, WFXT, etc.)
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
Summary/Conclusions
EM signatures of BH mergers are valuable as:
Probes of strong-field GR (mass loss, kicks)
Probes of accretion disk properties
Cosmological observationsMBH, Mbulge, σbulge relationshipsgalaxy formation and evolutionSMBH growth (mergers vs. accretion)mass/spin distribution functions
PTA counterpartsnearby, massive, brightextensive follow-up on human timescales
LISA counterpartsdistance ladder in a single stepluminosity-redshift to . 1%
LIGO counterparts: GW confirmation
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman
Overview EM counterparts Sources Precursors Prompt Emission Trojan Analogs Next Steps/Conclusion
Discussion Questions
is there gas?
can we see it?
Black Hole Coalescence: The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase Jeremy Schnittman