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The last three years: multiband gravitational wave observations of stellar mass binary black holes

ORAL

Abstract

Over the final years of their life, stellar-mass binary black holes radiate gravitational waves that will be observable by both space-based (such as LISA) and ground-based instruments (such as LIGO, Virgo and the next generation observatories Cosmic Explorer and the Einstein Telescope). We present results from a full Bayesian parameter estimation on both the space and ground-based observations for some typical sources using state-of-the-art waveforms that include eccentricity and spin induced precession. We show multi-band observations of these sources allow for measurement of their 17 parameter with exquisite precision. Furthermore, we quantify advance time and accuracy of fore-warnings together with realistic three-dimensional source localizations. These multi-band sources will be a gold-mine for astrophysics studies.

Publication: We plan to submit the paper to the arXiv soon.

Presenters

  • Riccardo Buscicchio

    Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca

Authors

  • Riccardo Buscicchio

    Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca

  • Antoine Klein

    University of Birmingham

  • Alberto Vecchio

    University of Birmingham

  • Christopher J Moore

    University of Birmingham

  • Patricia Schmidt

    University of Birmingham

  • Geraint Pratten

    University of Birmingham

  • Lucy M Thomas

    University of Birmingham

  • Natalie Williams

    University of Birmingham

  • Davide Gerosa

    University of Milan, Bicocca