{"title":"Observable signature of merging stellar-mass black holes in active galactic nuclei","extern":"1","_id":"17594","volume":950,"article_processing_charge":"No","intvolume":"       950","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The origin of stellar-mass black hole mergers discovered through gravitational waves is being widely debated. Mergers in the disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a promising source of origin, with possible observational clues in the gravitational-wave data. Beyond gravitational waves, a unique signature of AGN-assisted mergers is electromagnetic emission from the accreting black holes. Here we show that jets launched by accreting black holes merging in an AGN disk can be detected as peculiar transients by infrared, optical, and X-ray observatories. We further show that this emission mechanism can explain the possible associations between gravitational-wave events and the optical transient ZTF 19abanrhr and the proposed gamma-ray counterparts GW150914-GBM and LVT151012-GBM. We demonstrate how these associations, if genuine, can be used to reconstruct the properties of these events’ environments. Searching for infrared and X-ray counterparts to similar electromagnetic transients in the future, once host galaxies are localized by optical observations, could provide a smoking-gun signature of the mergers’ AGN origin."}],"publication_status":"published","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb","publication":"The Astrophysical Journal","year":"2023","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0004-637X","1538-4357"]},"month":"06","scopus_import":"1","quality_controlled":"1","oa":1,"oa_version":"Published Version","article_number":"13","citation":{"mla":"Tagawa, Hiromichi, et al. “Observable Signature of Merging Stellar-Mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 950, no. 1, 13, American Astronomical Society, 2023, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb\">10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb</a>.","ista":"Tagawa H, Kimura SS, Haiman Z, Perna R, Bartos I. 2023. Observable signature of merging stellar-mass black holes in active galactic nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(1), 13.","ieee":"H. Tagawa, S. S. Kimura, Z. Haiman, R. Perna, and I. Bartos, “Observable signature of merging stellar-mass black holes in active galactic nuclei,” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 950, no. 1. American Astronomical Society, 2023.","chicago":"Tagawa, Hiromichi, Shigeo S. Kimura, Zoltán Haiman, Rosalba Perna, and Imre Bartos. “Observable Signature of Merging Stellar-Mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. American Astronomical Society, 2023. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb\">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb</a>.","short":"H. Tagawa, S.S. Kimura, Z. Haiman, R. Perna, I. Bartos, The Astrophysical Journal 950 (2023).","ama":"Tagawa H, Kimura SS, Haiman Z, Perna R, Bartos I. Observable signature of merging stellar-mass black holes in active galactic nuclei. <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. 2023;950(1). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb\">10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb</a>","apa":"Tagawa, H., Kimura, S. S., Haiman, Z., Perna, R., &#38; Bartos, I. (2023). Observable signature of merging stellar-mass black holes in active galactic nuclei. <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. American Astronomical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb\">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb</a>"},"date_updated":"2024-09-23T12:36:58Z","type":"journal_article","publisher":"American Astronomical Society","issue":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_published":"2023-06-06T00:00:00Z","article_type":"original","main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc4bb","open_access":"1"}],"status":"public","day":"06","user_id":"317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345","date_created":"2024-09-05T12:41:47Z","author":[{"last_name":"Tagawa","first_name":"Hiromichi","full_name":"Tagawa, Hiromichi"},{"first_name":"Shigeo S.","full_name":"Kimura, Shigeo S.","last_name":"Kimura"},{"full_name":"Haiman, Zoltán","first_name":"Zoltán","last_name":"Haiman","id":"7c006e8c-cc0d-11ee-8322-cb904ef76f36"},{"last_name":"Perna","first_name":"Rosalba","full_name":"Perna, Rosalba"},{"last_name":"Bartos","full_name":"Bartos, Imre","first_name":"Imre"}]}