---
_id: '17596'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Binary black hole mergers encode information about their environment and the
    astrophysical processes that led to their formation. Measuring the redshift dependence
    of their merger rate will help probe the formation and evolution of galaxies and
    the evolution of the star formation rate. Here we compute the cosmic evolution
    of the merger rate for stellar-mass binaries in the disks of active galactic nuclei
    (AGNs). We focus on recent evolution out to redshift z = 2, covering the accessible
    range of current Earth-based gravitational-wave observatories. On this scale,
    the AGN population density is the main contributor to redshift dependence. We
    find that the AGN-assisted merger rate varies by less than a factor of two in
    the range 0 < z ≤ 2, comparable to the expected level of evolution for globular
    clusters, but much smaller than the order-of-magnitude evolution for field binaries.
article_number: '138'
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Y.
  full_name: Yang, Y.
  last_name: Yang
- first_name: I.
  full_name: Bartos, I.
  last_name: Bartos
- first_name: Zoltán
  full_name: Haiman, Zoltán
  id: 7c006e8c-cc0d-11ee-8322-cb904ef76f36
  last_name: Haiman
- first_name: B.
  full_name: Kocsis, B.
  last_name: Kocsis
- first_name: S.
  full_name: Márka, S.
  last_name: Márka
- first_name: H.
  full_name: Tagawa, H.
  last_name: Tagawa
citation:
  ama: Yang Y, Bartos I, Haiman Z, Kocsis B, Márka S, Tagawa H. Cosmic evolution of
    stellar-mass black hole merger rate in active galactic nuclei. <i>The Astrophysical
    Journal</i>. 2020;896(2). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4">10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4</a>
  apa: Yang, Y., Bartos, I., Haiman, Z., Kocsis, B., Márka, S., &#38; Tagawa, H. (2020).
    Cosmic evolution of stellar-mass black hole merger rate in active galactic nuclei.
    <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. American Astronomical Society. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4</a>
  chicago: Yang, Y., I. Bartos, Zoltán Haiman, B. Kocsis, S. Márka, and H. Tagawa.
    “Cosmic Evolution of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Merger Rate in Active Galactic Nuclei.”
    <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>. American Astronomical Society, 2020. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4">https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4</a>.
  ieee: Y. Yang, I. Bartos, Z. Haiman, B. Kocsis, S. Márka, and H. Tagawa, “Cosmic
    evolution of stellar-mass black hole merger rate in active galactic nuclei,” <i>The
    Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 896, no. 2. American Astronomical Society, 2020.
  ista: Yang Y, Bartos I, Haiman Z, Kocsis B, Márka S, Tagawa H. 2020. Cosmic evolution
    of stellar-mass black hole merger rate in active galactic nuclei. The Astrophysical
    Journal. 896(2), 138.
  mla: Yang, Y., et al. “Cosmic Evolution of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Merger Rate in
    Active Galactic Nuclei.” <i>The Astrophysical Journal</i>, vol. 896, no. 2, 138,
    American Astronomical Society, 2020, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4">10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4</a>.
  short: Y. Yang, I. Bartos, Z. Haiman, B. Kocsis, S. Márka, H. Tagawa, The Astrophysical
    Journal 896 (2020).
date_created: 2024-09-05T12:43:28Z
date_published: 2020-06-22T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-09-23T12:59:52Z
day: '22'
doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab91b4
extern: '1'
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2003.08564'
intvolume: '       896'
issue: '2'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: ' https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2003.08564'
month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
publication: The Astrophysical Journal
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0004-637X
  - 1538-4357
publication_status: published
publisher: American Astronomical Society
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Cosmic evolution of stellar-mass black hole merger rate in active galactic
  nuclei
type: journal_article
user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345
volume: 896
year: '2020'
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