Massive Black Hole Binaries as LISA Precursors in the Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey

Zoltán Haiman; Chengcheng Xin; Tamara Bogdanović; Pau Amaro Seoane; Matteo Bonetti; J. Andrew Casey-Clyde; Maria Charisi; Monica Colpi; Jordy Davelaar; Alessandra De Rosa; Daniel J. D'Orazio; Kate Futrowsky; Poshak Gandhi; Alister W. Graham; Jenny E. Greene; Melanie Habouzit; Daryl Haggard; Kelly Holley-Bockelmann; Xin Liu; Alberto Mangiagli; Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti; Sean McGee; Chiara M. F. Mingarelli; Rodrigo Nemmen; Antonella Palmese; Delphine Porquet; Alberto Sesana; Aaron Stemo; Alejandro Torres-Orjuela; Jonathan Zrake

doi:10.48550/arXiv.2306.14990

Massive Black Hole Binaries as LISA Precursors in the Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey

Zoltán Haiman, Chengcheng Xin, Tamara Bogdanović, Pau Amaro Seoane, Matteo Bonetti, J. Andrew Casey-Clyde, Maria Charisi, Monica Colpi, Jordy Davelaar, Alessandra De Rosa, Daniel J. D'Orazio, Kate Futrowsky, Poshak Gandhi, Alister W. Graham, Jenny E. Greene, Melanie Habouzit, Daryl Haggard, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Xin Liu, Alberto MangiagliAlessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti, Sean McGee, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Rodrigo Nemmen, Antonella Palmese, Delphine Porquet, Alberto Sesana, Aaron Stemo, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela, Jonathan Zrake

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With its capacity to observe $\sim 10^{5-6}$ faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) out to redshift $z\approx 6$, Roman is poised to reveal a population of $10^{4-6}\, {\rm M_\odot}$ black holes during an epoch of vigorous galaxy assembly. By measuring the light curves of a subset of these AGN and looking for periodicity, Roman can identify several hundred massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with 5-12 day orbital periods, which emit copious gravitational radiation and will inevitably merge on timescales of $10^{3-5}$ years. During the last few months of their merger, such binaries are observable with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a joint ESA/NASA gravitational wave mission set to launch in the mid-2030s. Roman can thus find LISA precursors, provide uniquely robust constraints on the LISA source population, help identify the host galaxies of LISA mergers, and unlock the potential of multi-messenger astrophysics with massive black hole binaries.

Original language	English
Number of pages	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.14990
Publication status	Published - 26 Jun 2023

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White Paper for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Core Community Surveys (https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/ccs_white_papers.html)
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Haiman, Z., Xin, C., Bogdanović, T., Seoane, P. A., Bonetti, M., Casey-Clyde, J. A., Charisi, M., Colpi, M., Davelaar, J., Rosa, A. D., D'Orazio, D. J., Futrowsky, K., Gandhi, P., Graham, A. W., Greene, J. E., Habouzit, M., Haggard, D., Holley-Bockelmann, K., Liu, X., ... Zrake, J. (2023). Massive Black Hole Binaries as LISA Precursors in the Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.14990

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