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Merging Compact Binaries From White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars to (Super)Massive BHs
Dong LaiCornell University
Penn State Institute for Gravitation and Cosmos, 3/27/2017
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Merging Compact Binaries
1. Neutron Star/Black Hole Binaries
2. White Dwarf Binaries
3. Star/White Dwarf – (Super)Massive BH
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Transient & Variable Universe Wide-field, fast imaging telescopes in optical: PTF(iPTF,ZTF) Pan-Starrs LSST
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Transient & Variable Universe Wide-field, fast imaging telescopes in optical: PTF, Pan-Starrs, LSST
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Gravitational Wave Astronomy
LIGO VIRGO
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LIGO’s First Binary Black Holes:
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Credit: LIGO
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Gravitational Waves • Warpage of Spacetime • Generated by time-dependent quadrupoles
• Detector response to passage of GWs:
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Kip Thorne
Gravitational Wave Interferometer
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Merging NS Binaries (NS/NS or NS/BH)
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NS/NS Binaries: Binary Pulsars
Nobel Prize 1993
Hulse-Taylor Pulsar Weisberg et al. 2010
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NS/NS Binaries: Binary Pulsars
Hulse-Taylor Pulsar Weisberg et al. 2010
Double pulsars Kramer et al. 2014
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NS/NS Binaries: Binary Pulsars
(Based on 3 systems in Galaxy that will merge within Hubble time; No observed NS/BH yet !)
Hulse-Taylor Pulsar Weisberg et al. 2010
Double pulsars Kramer et al. 2014
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Shibata et al. 2006
NS-NS Merger
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F. Foucart et al (Cornell-Caltech) 2012
BH-NS Merger
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The last minutes: Gravitational Waveform
Foucart et al 2012
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Gravitational waves probe nonlinear gravity
Cornell-Caltech collaboration
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Gravitational waves probe NS EOS
Masses well measured from inspiral waveform Final cut-off frequency ~ (GM/R3)1/2
Cutler et al. ‘92; DL & Wiseman ‘96; Shibata et al.’06; … Bauswein, Janka, Shibata...’12-16
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NS/NS and NS/BH Mergers: Electromagnetic Counterparts
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Gamma-Ray Bursts
--Bursts of 0.1-10 MeV gamma-rays --From all directions, z~0.1-10 --Very energetic ~1048-55 erg --Rare: GRB rate ~ 10-6/yr/galaxy --”Long” (~30s) and “short” (~0.3s)
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Merging NS/BH (or NS/NS?): Central Engine of Short GRBs
GRB Elliptical z=0.2
Bloom et al. 2006
Properties of host galaxies: Fong et al. 13
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Merging NS/BH and NS/NS: Optical/IR Transients (?)
Ejecta evolution: Initially mostly hot neutrons, decompression, r-process, beta decays ! heating
Foucart et al. (Cornell-Caltech)
Matzger, Quataert, Kasen, etc.
Opacity effect ! IR transient
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Pre-Merger Phase: Anything interesting?
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Pre-Merger Phase: Weakly-magnetized Neutron Stars
Tides -- Equilibrium tides -- Dynamical tides
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“Equilibrium” Tide (F-mode Distortion)
M, R
M’
==> Important only at small separation (just prior to merger) (Bildsten & Cutler 1992; Kochenek 92; DL, Rasio & Shaipro , etc)
Numerical GR Quasi-equilibrium NS binary sequence (Baumgarte, Shapiro, Teukolsky, Shibata, Meudon group, etc. 1990s--200x) Recent (semi-analytic) GR calculation of tidal effect (Hinderer, Flanagan, Poisson, Damour, Penner, Andersson, Jones, etc., 2008+)
(Missing GW cycles)
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“Equilibrium” Tide (F-mode Distortion)
Hinderer et al. 2016
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Dynamical (Resonant) Tides: Excitations of Internal Waves/Modes
NS has low-frequency oscillation modes: g-modes (~100 Hz) (depends on symmetry energy) inertial modes (incl. r-modes),…
Resonance:
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Dynamical (Resonant) Tides: Excitations of Internal Waves/Modes
! Probe NS EOS using Inspiral Waveform
Rosonant tidal excitations of NS modes during inspiral ! transfer orbital energy to NS ! Missing GW cycles
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Resonant Excitations of NS Oscillations During InspiralNon-rotating NS:
G-mode (Reisenegger & Goldreich 94; Shibata 94; DL 94)Rotating NS:
G-mode, F-mode, R-mode (Ho & DL 99)Inertial modes (DL & Wu 06)R-mode (excited by gravitomagnetic force; Racine & Flanagan 06)
General Results:
• For R=10 km, 1.4 Sun NS, the number of missing cycles < 0.1, not measurable
• G-modes: Number of missing cycles Important for low-mass, larger NS
�N / R3.5/M4.5
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Resonant Excitations of NS Oscillations During Inspiral
Rotating NS: m=1 “leading” r-mode
Mode is excited for SL misaligned system at
Wenrui Xu & DL 2017
(retrograde wrt rotation)
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NS Mass-Radius
Steiner et al 2013
Measured NS mass: 1.17–2.0 Solar mass
LIGO surprise: Low-mass NSs ? Rapidly rotation (>400 Hz) NSs ?
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DECIGO (DECiHertz laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory)
Nakamura et al. 2016
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Pre-Merger Phase: Magnetic NSs
Cf. Double Pulsars: PSR J0737-3039A,B pulsar A: ~1010G pulsar B: ~a few x1012G
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Consider a binary with -- magnetic NS (>1012G) + non-magnetic NS -- embedded in a tenuous plasma (magnetosphere)
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B
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Flux tube
Flux tube
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DC Circuit Powered by Orbital Motion
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DC Circuit Powered by Orbital Motion
Applications to:
WD-WD Binaries (K.Wu et al. 02,09; Dall’Osso, Israel, Stella 06,07 )
NS-NS, NS-BH Binaries (Hansen & Lyuitikov 01; McWilliams & Levin 11; Piro 12)
Exoplanetary systems (Laine & Lin 12,…)
Caution: Some of these were wrong
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DC Circuit Powered by Orbital Motion
Results depend on the resistance:
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DC Circuit Powered by Orbital Motion
Problems with small (!large ): Flux tube is twisted
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DC Circuit Powered by Orbital Motion
Circuit will break when ~
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Energy Dissipation in the Magnetosphere of Pre-merging NS Binary
Actual dissipation rate:
• This Edot will not affect orbital decay rate (GW signal)
• Radio emission prior to binary merger (?) cf. Vietri 96; Hansen & Lyutikov 01 cf. isolated pulsars:
DL 2013
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Energy Dissipation in the Magnetosphere of Pre-merging NS Binary
Q: What happens if both NSs are magnetic?
Ponce… Lehner …2014-16
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Summary (I) Merging NS and BH Binaries: -- Should be detected (soon!) by advanced LIGO/VIRGO -- Probe NS EOS: Resonant excitations of modes -- EM counterparts: GRBs, kilonovae (Optical/IR)
pre-merger magnetic interactions " precursors (?)
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Compact White Dwarf Binaries (mins - hour)
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Compact White Dwarf Binaries (mins - hour)
-- Dominant sources of gravitational waves (10-4-0.1 Hz) Space interferometer (LISA) -- Lead to various outcomes: R CrB stars, AM CVn binaries, transients If total mass ~ 1.4Msun: AIC => NS or SN Ia
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Type Ia Supernovae
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Type Ia Supernovae Thermonuclear explosion of CO white dwarfs of ~1.4Msun
Progenitors ?? WD + non-deg. star: “Single-degenerate” Scenario WD + WD merger: “Double-degenerate” Scenario WD + WD collision ? Various arguments for/against each scenario: Rates, super-soft sources, delay time…
Recent observations in favor of DD: e.g., Absence of ex-companion stars in SN Ia remnant SNR 0509-67.5 ==> rule out V=26.9
Schaefer & Pagnotta 2012 (cf Di Stefano & Kilic 2012; Shen et al.13)
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Radial Velocity Surveys of Compact WD Binaries
Brown et al. 2012 Brown et al. 2013 Gianninas et al. 2015
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12 min orbital period double WD eclipsing binary
Brown et al. 2011
-- will merge in 0.9 Myr -- large GW strain " (eLISA verification source) -- orbital decay measurable from eclipse timing (Hermes et al 2012)
Primary & secondary eclipses Ellipsoidal (tidal) distortion Doppler boosting
SDSS J0651+2844
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WD Binary Merger
Dan, Rosswog,et al. 14
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WD Binary Merger ! Transient sources
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WD Binary Merger
Dan, Rosswog,et al. 14
Outcome depends on WD masses, composition, and pre-merger conditions (temperature, rotation)
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Dynamical Tides in Compact WD Binaries
Issues: -- Spin-orbit synchronization? -- Tidal dissipation and heating? -- Effect on orbital decay rate? (e.g. LISA)
with Jim Fuller (Ph.D. 2013; now at Caltech)
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Equilibrium Tide
M, R M’
Problems: -- Parameterized theory -- The physics of tidal dissipation is more complex:
Excitation/damping of internal waves/modes (Dynamical Tides)
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Wave Propagation inside White Dwarf
CO WD
He-core WD
N = Local Buoyancy Freq
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“Continuous” Excitation of Gravity Waves
Waves are excited in the interior/envelope, propagate outwards and dissipate near surface
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“Continuous” Excitation of Gravity Waves
Waves are excited in the interior/envelope, propagate outwards and dissipate near surface
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AA AA
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Spin-Orbit Synchronization
1 hour
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Tidal Dissipation (energy transfer from orbit to star)
Etide . 0.03LGW
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Tidal Heating Rate
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Consequences of Tidal Heating Depend on where the heat is deposited …
If deposited in shallow layer: thermal time short ==> change Teff If deposited in deeper layer: (common: critical layer…) thermal time longer than orbital ==> Nuclear flash
Explain SDSS J0651+2844
“Tidal Nova” *
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Summary (II) Merging WD Binaries: -- Produce various outcomes (e.g. SN Ia), transient sources (PTF/ZTF, LSST) -- Pre-merger phase important/interesting: dynamical tides: Continuous excitations of waves, nonlinear breaking spin synchronization, tidal heating " Tidal nova -- Low-frequency GWs (LISA)
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Star (WD) – Massive BH Binaries: Eccentric Path to Tidal Disruption
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Tidal Disruption of Star by Supermassive BH
rbh . rperi . rtide
rbh ' 2GMbh
c2rtide ' R?
✓Mbh
M?
◆1/3
Disrupted stellar debris falls back onto an accretion disk ! Flares followed by t-5/3 decay
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Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) ~70 candidates so far (Auchettl et al 2017) optical/UV, soft x-rays (hard x-rays for jetted TDEs)
Gezari et al. 2012
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Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) White Dwarf -TDEs ? (ultra-long 104 s GRBs?)
Ioka, Hotokezaka & Piran 2017
See also Shcherbakov et al.13; Levan et al.14
WD-TDEs require Mbh . 105M�
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What will happen when a star (WD) is captured into an orbit with rperi = (3-20) x rtide?
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WD – Massive BH Binaries: Eccentric Path to Tidal Disruption
with Michelle Vick
Issues: -- Gravitational radiation (GR) vs tidal dissipation ? GR reduces a, e and rperi Tide reduces a, e but increases rperi
-- Rotational state of WD ?
-- Tidal heating of WD?
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Physics of Dynamical Tides in Eccentric WD-BH Binaries
-- Tidal excitation of gravity waves inside WD, nonlinear damping in envelope -- Eccentric orbits: for each a,e, a spectrum of gravity waves are excited
Vick, DL & Fuller 2017
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Tidal energy and angular momentum transfer rates
! Gravitational Radiation dominates over tide
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Tidal Heating of WD during circularization
Tidal brightening of WD Tidal nova ! ejection of H envelope
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Summary Merging NS and BH Binaries: -- Should be detected (soon!) by advanced LIGO/VIRGO -- Probe NS EOS: Resonant excitations of modes -- EM counterparts: GRBs, kilonovae (Optical/IR)
pre-merger magnetic interactions " precursors (?)
Merging WD Binaries: -- Produce various outcomes (e.g. SN Ia), transient sources (PTF/ZTF, LSST) -- Pre-merger phase important/interesting: dynamical tides: Continuous excitations of waves, nonlinear breaking spin synchronization, tidal heating " Tidal nova -- Low-frequency GWs (LISA)
Eccentric Star(WD)/Massive BH Binaries: -- Possible precursors to TDEs -- Dynamical tides cannot compete with GR for orbital evolution -- Tidal heating is important
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Thanks!
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Transient & Variable Universe Wide-field, fast imaging telescopes in optical: PTF, Pan-Starrs, LSST
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Pea
k Lu
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V838 MonM85 OT
M31 RV
V1309 Sco
SCP06F6
SN2006gySN2005ap SN2008es
SN2007bi
SN2008S
NGC300OT
SN2008ha
SN2005E
SN2002bj
PTF10xfh SN2012hn
SN2007kePTF12bho
PTF11kmbPTF10iuv
PTF09davPTF11bij
PTF10bhp
PTF10fqs
PTF10acbp
PTF09atu
PTF09cnd
PTF09cwlPTF10cwr
PTF11agg
iPTF13dsw
iPTF13bxl
Thermonuclear Supernovae
Classical Novae
Luminous Red Novae
Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients
Core−Collapse Supernovae
Luminous Supernovae Relativistic Explosions
.Ia Explosions
Ca−rich Transients
P60−M81OT−071213
P60−M82OT−081119
1038
1039
1040
1041
1042
1043
1044
1045
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min
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Kasliwal 2014