2018/10/23 by Tomoya Kinugawa, Kinugawa, Tomoya, Masaki Yamaguchi +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.09721
openalex publication_date 2018/10/23 · openalex created_date 2018/10/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
LIGO has detected gravitational waves from massive binary black hole mergers. In order to explain the origin of such massive stellar-mass black holes, extreme metal poor stars including first stars have been invoked. However, black holes do not carry information of the metallicity. In order to check the metallicity dependence of the black hole formation, we focus on galactic black hole-main sequence binaries (BH-MSs). Using a binary population synthesis method, we find that \gaia can detect ∼200-400 BH-MSs whose metallicity is \zsun and ∼70-400 BH-MSs whose metallicity is 0.1\zsun. With the spectroscopic observation on 4-m class telescopes, we can check the metallicity of BH-MSs. The metallicity dependence of the black hole formation might be checked by the astrometry and spectroscopic observations.