Seminari di gruppo IV

The rate of gravistar events

by Prof. Mikhail Sazhin (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State Universtiy)

Europe/Rome
0M03 (Dipartimento di Fisica "Ettore Pancini")

0M03

Dipartimento di Fisica "Ettore Pancini"

Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo ed. 6 via Cintia, Napoli
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Abstract

The detection of the gravitational wave (GW) source GW150914 by the

advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)

was interpreted as the merger of a binary black hole (BBH). A conventional

model of a binary black holes is supposed to consist of two black holes

of different  masses which were born long ago before merger. A merger of

two black holes in vacuum is expected to have no electromagnetic radiation

in general. At the same time the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board

the Fermi satellite reported the detection of a transient electromagnetic

signal.  Recently, A.Loeb considered new model in which binary black

hole was created few minutes before coalescence. I consider the rate of

such GW events.