Compact Binary Merger Rate in Dark-matter Spikes

Abstract

Today, the existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the center of galactic halos is almost confirmed. An extremely dense region referred to as dark-matter spike is expected to form around central SMBHs as they grow and evolve adiabatically. In this work, we calculate the merger rate of compact binaries in dark-matter spikes while considering halo models with spherical and ellipsoidal collapses. Our findings exhibit that ellipsoidal-collapse dark-matter halo models can potentially yield the enhancement of the merger rate of compact binaries. Finally, our results confirm that the merger rate of primordial black hole binaries is consistent with the results estimated by the LIGO-Virgo detectors, while such results cannot be realized for binary neutron stars and primordial black hole-neutron star binaries.

Keywords

• Dark matter
• Primordial black holes
• Neutron stars
• Supermassive black holes
• Gravitational waves