6–10 May 2024
MECC
Europe/Rome timezone

Gravitational wave signatures of intermediate-mass black holes

7 May 2024, 15:30
15m
Room 2.1 (MECC)

Room 2.1

MECC

Presentation Observational Science Board (OSB) OSB

Description

In this talk, we present a systematic study of potential gravitational wave signatures produced by binary black hole coalescence, resulting in the production of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH). The event GW190521 represents the first direct evidence of the existence of IMBHs and suggests that more IMBHs might be detected when more data are collected, especially when more sensitivity is achieved in the low-frequency region, which characterises this type of events. We investigate a few million simulated waveforms corresponding to coalescence events whose remnant mass falls in the range $100

Primary author

Gianluca Inguglia (HEPHY - Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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