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Binary black hole merger rate from young massive clusters, open clusters, and isolated binaries
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We study the roles of cluster dynamics and massive binary evolution in producing stellar-mass binary black hole (BBH) mergers over the cosmic time. Dynamical BBH mergers are obtained from long-term direct N-body evolutionary models of ~10^4M_sun young massive clusters (YMC) evolving into open clusters. Fast evolutionary models of massive isolated binaries yield merging BBHs from binary evolution. A cosmological population synthesis is performed to obtain BBH-merger yields from these two channels, observable at the present day and over cosmic time. The merging BBH populations from the two channels are combined by applying a Bayesian regression chain, taking into account the observed differential BBH merger rate densities from the GW events of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK). The analysis estimates an OB-star binary fraction of >90% and a YMC formation efficiency of ~10^−2, being consistent with recent optical observations and structure-formation simulations. The corresponding combined present-day differential BBH merger rate density and the cosmic evolution of BBH merger rate density both agree well with those from LVK. We also demonstrate that the interplay between cluster dynamics and binary evolution in YMCs can potentially lead to an asymmetric distribution of effective spin parameter of the merging BBH population, as hinted by the observed GW events.
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Banerjee, S., 2022, PRD, Vol 105, id.023004 Banerjee, S., Olejak, A., Belczynski, K., 2023, ApJ, 953, 80
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