Probing Distant Massive Black Holes with LISA

Details Probing Distant Massive Black Holes with LISA Probing Distant Massive Black Holes with LISA

2003-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301397v1

Class.Quant.Grav.20:S37-S44,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Class. Quant. Gravity (4th LISA Symposium Special Issue)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/20/10/305

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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