2024-04-10 (Wednesday) 9:00 AM CST [Webinar]
Title:
The role of dark matter in supermassive black hole mergers
Speaker:
Dr. Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez
Institutions:
University of Toronto
Short-bio:
In 2020, Dr. Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez did his Ph.D from Heidelberg University Germany. Right after his doctorate, he joined McGill as postdoc fellow. Currently, he is a Post Doctoral Fellow at Department of Physics, University of Toronto. His main research interest lies in Cosmology and early Universe.
Abstract:
Increasing evidence for a stochastic gravitational background is being collected at pulsar timing arrays. The most plausible origin of the signal is the cumulative strain from the mergers of supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies across the history of the universe. I will discuss how the impact of dark matter dynamical friction on the black hole binary evolution can address some of the questions that this discovery raises. This includes the solution of the “final parsec problem” by which mergers would otherwise stall before gravitational wave emission can drive the coalesce. I will argue that the observational data favor the existence of dark matter self interactions with a cross-section and velocity dependence consistent with the ones capable of solving the small-scale structure problems of collisionless cold dark matter.
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