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Core Scouring Dynamics and Gravitational Wave Consequences: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binary Hardening

  • Authors: C. J. Harris, Kayhan Gültekin, Laura Blecha

C. J. Harris et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1009 .

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Here we plot the posterior distribution of coalescence times for the SBHBs in our best-fit model. We find the median value of the distribution to be ﹩\langle {t}_{c}\rangle =1.{6}_{-1.0}^{+1.8}﹩, where the uncertainties are the 68% confidence intervals. This is significantly larger than the G. Agazie et al. (2023b) value of ∼0.1 Gyr and similar to timescales found by L. Z. Kelley et al. (2017a) for massive binaries with high mass ratios.

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