Probing distant massive black holes with LISA

2003/01/20 by Kristen Menou · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Active galactic nucleus #Black hole (networking) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Interferometry #Intermediate-mass black hole #Measure (data warehouse) #Population #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quasar #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Space (punctuation) #astro-ph #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/10/305

published as Class.Quant.Grav.20:S37-S44,2003 · 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Class. Quant. Gravity (4th LISA Symposium Special Issue)

arxiv created 2003/01/20 · openalex publication_date 2003/04/25 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Idealized models are used to illustrate the potential of the laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) as a probe of the largely unknown population of cosmologically-distant massive black holes (MBHs) and as a tool to measure their masses with unprecedented accuracy. The models suggest that LISA will most efficiently probe a MBH population of lower mass than the one found in bright quasars and nearby galactic nuclei. The mass spectrum of these MBHs could constrain formation scenarios for high-redshift, low-mass galaxies.

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