2009

Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: "Binary Bondi" and "Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton" Accretion

Farris, Brian D., Liu, Yuk Tung, Shapiro, Stuart L.

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Merging supermassive black hole-black hole (BHBH) binaries produced in galaxy mergers are promising sources of detectable gravitational waves.

If such a merger takes place in a gaseous environment, there is a possibility of a simultaneous detection of electromagnetic and gravitational radiation, as the stirring, shock heating and accretion of the gas may produce variability and enhancements in the electromagnetic flux.
Such a simultaneous detection can provide a wealth of opportunities to study gravitational physics, accretion physics, and cosmology.
We investigate this scenario by performing fully general relativistic, hydrodynamic simulations of merging, equal-mass, nonspinning BHBH binaries embedded in gas clouds.

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