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Ram-pressure stripping of a kicked Hill sphere: Prompt electromagnetic emission from the merger of stellar mass black holes in an AGN accretion disk

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arxiv 1907.03746 v2 pith:R7HEJIAQ submitted 2019-07-08 astro-ph.HE astro-ph.GA

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Accretion disks around supermassive black holes (SMBH) are promising sites for stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers due to mass segregation and merger acceleration by disk gas torques. Here we show that a GW-kick at BH merger causes ram-pressure stripping of gas within the BH Hill sphere. If $R_{H}\geq H$, the disk height, an off-center UV flare at $a_{\rm BH} \sim 10^{3}r_{g}$ emerges within $t_{\rm UV} \sim \rm{O}(2 {\rm days})(a_{\rm BH}/10^{3}r_{g})(M_{\rm SMBH}/10^{8}M_{\odot})(v_{\rm kick}/10^{2}\rm{km/s})$ post-merger and lasts O$(R_{H}/v_{\rm kick}) \sim \rm{O}(5 t_{\rm UV}$). The flare emerges with luminosity O($10^{42}{\rm erg/s})(t_{\rm UV}/2{\rm days})^{-1}(M_{\rm Hill}/1M_{\odot})(v_{\rm kick}/10^{2}{\rm km/s})^{2}$. AGN optical/UV photometry alters and asymmetric broad emission line profiles can develop after weeks. If $R_{H}<H$, detectability depends on disk optical depth. Follow-up by large optical sky surveys is optimized for small GW error volumes and for LIGO/Virgo triggers $>50M_{\odot}$.

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