Extreme mass ratio inspirals in galaxies with dark matter halos [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05088


Using the analytic, static and spherically symmetric metric for a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in dark matter (DM) halos with Hernquist type density distribution, we derive analytic formulae for the orbital period and orbital precession, the evolutions of the semi-latus rectum and the eccentricity for eccentric EMRIs with the environment of DM halos. We show how orbital precessions are decreased and even reverse the direction if the density of DM halo is large enough. The presence of local DM halos slows down the decrease of the semi-latus rectum and the eccentricity. Comparing the number of orbital cycles with and without DM halos over one-year evolution before the merger, we find that DM halos with the compactness as small as $10^{-4}$ can be detected. By calculating the mismatch between GW waveforms with and without DM halos, we show that we can use GWs from EMRIs in the environments of galaxies to test the existence of DM halos and detect the compactness as small as $10^{-5}$.

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N. Dai, Y. Gong, Y. Zhao, et. al.
Fri, 13 Jan 23
30/72

Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures