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Progenitors of binary black hole mergers detected by LIGO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2017

Konstantin Postnov  and
Alexander Kuranov
Konstantin Postnov
Affiliation:
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow M.V.Lomonosov State University 13, Universitetskij pr., 119234 Moscow, Russia email: pk@sai.msu.ru
Alexander Kuranov
Affiliation:
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow M.V.Lomonosov State University 13, Universitetskij pr., 119234 Moscow, Russia email: pk@sai.msu.ru
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Possible formation mechanisms of massive close binary black holes that can merge in the Hubble time to produce powerful gravitational wave bursts detected during advanced LIGO O1 science run are briefly discussed. The pathways include the evolution from field low-metallicity massive binaries, the dynamical formation in globular clusters and primordial black holes. Low effective black hole spins inferred for LIGO GW150914 and LTV151012 events are discussed. Population synthesis calculations of the expected spin and chirp mass distributions from the standard field massive binary formation channel are presented for different metallicities (from zero-metal Population III stars up to solar metal abundance). We conclude that that merging binary black holes can contain systems from different formation channels, discrimination between which can be made with increasing statistics of mass and spin measurements from ongoing and future gravitational wave observations.

Keywords

black hole physicsstars: evolution(stars:) binaries (including multiple): close
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S329: The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars , November 2016 , pp. 118 - 125
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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