![Figure 8](smbhSNRs.png)
Figure 8: Comparative SNRs, as a function of redshifted black-hole mass
, for the last
year of inspiral of an equal-mass MBH binary and for the ringdown after the merger of the system. The
method used to generate this figure follows that of [182], updated to use a modern LISA sensitivity
curve [277] with a low-frequency cutoff of
. The redshift is set to
, at which
the luminosity distance is
using WMAP 7-year parameters [271].
![(1 + z)M](article733x.gif)
![f = 1 × 10− 4 Hz](article734x.gif)
![z = 1](article735x.gif)
![D = 6.6 Gpc L](article736x.gif)