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dc.contributor.authorVitale, Salvatore
dc.contributor.authorFarr, Will M.
dc.contributor.authorNg, Ken K. Y.
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez, Carl
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-20T13:52:36Z
dc.date.available2021-09-20T18:23:16Z
dc.date.available2022-07-20T13:52:36Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132599.2
dc.description.abstract© 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. A measurement of the history of cosmic star formation is central to understanding the origin and evolution of galaxies. The measurement is extremely challenging using electromagnetic radiation: significant modeling is required to convert luminosity to mass, and to properly account for dust attenuation, for example. Here we show how detections of gravitational waves from inspiraling binary black holes made by proposed third-generation detectors can be used to measure the star formation rate (SFR) of massive stars with high precision up to redshifts of ∼10. Depending on the time-delay model, the predicted detection rates ranges from ∼2310 to ∼56,740 per month with the current measurement of local merger rate density. With 30,000 detections, parameters describing the volumetric SFR can be constrained at the few percent level, and the volumetric merger rate can be directly measured to 3% at z ∼ 2. Given a parameterized SFR, the characteristic delay time between binary formation and merger can be measured to ∼60%.en_US
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAmerican Astronomical Societyen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.3847/2041-8213/AB50C0en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceThe American Astronomical Societyen_US
dc.titleMeasuring the Star Formation Rate with Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentLIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Researchen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physicsen_US
dc.relation.journalAstrophysical Journal Lettersen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2020-11-10T16:40:06Z
dspace.orderedauthorsVitale, S; Farr, WM; Ng, KKY; Rodriguez, CLen_US
dspace.date.submission2020-11-10T16:40:09Z
mit.journal.volume886en_US
mit.journal.issue1en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICY
mit.metadata.statusPublication Information Neededen_US


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