Figure 12.
Eccentricity distributions of merging BH binaries formed in star clusters for the three choices of rh,0, at the moment their GW frequency becomes larger than 10 and 0.01 Hz. Bottom panels give the eccentricity distributions for ejected binaries (lowest eccentricities), in-cluster inspirals, and GW captures (largest eccentricities) separately. Note that at 0.01 Hz, GW captures all have e ≃ 1 because they all form at frequencies |$f\gt 0.1\,$|Hz. In this calculation, we have adopted the constant momentum natal kick model of Section 2.2, and we have only included late time mergers, occurring at t > 8 Gyr.