Low Metallicity Star Formation: a Nursery for Compact Binary Mergers?
APA
(2011). Low Metallicity Star Formation: a Nursery for Compact Binary Mergers?. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/11100049
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Low Metallicity Star Formation: a Nursery for Compact Binary Mergers?. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 06, 2011, https://pirsa.org/11100049
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@misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:11100049, doi = {10.48660/11100049}, url = {https://pirsa.org/11100049}, author = {}, keywords = {Strong Gravity}, language = {en}, title = {Low Metallicity Star Formation: a Nursery for Compact Binary Mergers?}, publisher = {Perimeter Institute}, year = {2011}, month = {oct}, note = {PIRSA:11100049 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}} }
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Most predictions for binary compact object formation are normalized to the present-day Milky Way population. In this talk, I suggest the merger rate of black hole binaries could be exceptionally sensitive to the ill-constrained fraction of low-metallicity star formation that ever occurred on our past light cone. I discuss whether and how observations might distinguish binary evolution uncertainties from this strong trend, both in the near future with well-identified electromagnetic counterparts and in the more distant future via third-generation gravitational wave detectors.