Prospects for Detection of Extragalactic Stellar Black Hole Binaries in
  the Nearby Universe
  Stellar mass black hole binaries have individual masses between 10-80 solar
masses. These systems may emit gravitational waves at frequencies detectable at
Megaparsec distances by space-based gravitational wave observatories. In a
previous study, we determined the selection effects of observing these systems
with detectors similar to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna by using a
generated population of binary black holes that covered a reasonable parameter
space and calculating their signal-to-noise ratio. We further our study by
populating the galaxies in our nearby (less than 30 Mpc) universe with binary
black hole systems drawn from a distribution found in the Synthetic Universe to
ultimately investigate the likely event rate of detectable binaries from
galaxies in the nearby universe.
