Gravitational Wave Memory Imprints on the CMB from Populations of Massive Black Hole Mergers
2024
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Aims: To showcase and characterise the rich phenomenology of temperature fluctuation patterns that are imprinted on the CMB by the gravitational wave memory (GWM) of massive black hole (BH) mergers. Methods: We analyse both individual binaries as well as populations of binaries, distributed in local cosmological boxes at a given redshift. Results: The magnitude of the temperature fluctuations scales primarily as a function of binary total mass and pattern angular scale, and accumulates as a random-walk process when populations of mergers are considered. Fluctuations of order $\sim 10^{-10}$ K are easily reached across scales of $\sim 1'$ to $\sim 1^{\circ}$ for realistic volumetric merger rates of 10$^{-3}$ Mpc$^{-3}$ Gyr$^{-1}$, as appropriate for massive galaxies at $z=1$. We determine numerically that GWM temperature fluctuations result in a universal power spectrum with a scaling of $P(k)\propto k^{-2.7}$. Conclusion: While not detectable given the limitations of current all-sky CMB surveys, our work explicitly shows how every black hole merger in the Universe left us its unique faint signature.
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Gravitational Wave Memory Imprints on the CMB from Populations of Massive Black Hole Mergers
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Zwick, Lorenz ; O'Neill, David ; Hendriks, Kai ; Kirkeberg, Philip ; Miravet-Tenés, Miquel |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2024 |
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