Publications (8)
Cosmic Cousins: Identification of a Subpopulation of Binary Black Holes Consistent with Isolated Binary Evolution
Jaxen Godfrey, Bruce Edelman, Ben Farr
Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact binaries have become a regular occurrence. The continued advancement of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration dete…
Constraining Unmodeled Physics with Compact Binary Mergers from GWTC-1
Bruce Edelman, Francisco J. Rivera-Paleo, J. D. Merritt +8
We present a flexible model to describe the effects of generic deviations of observed gravitational wave signals from modeled waveforms in the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave det…
Ain't No Mountain High Enough: Semi-Parametric Modeling of LIGO-Virgos Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution
Bruce Edelman, Zoheyr Doctor, Jaxen Godfrey +1
We introduce a semi-parametric model for the primary mass distribution of binary black holes (BBHs) observed with gravitational waves (GWs) that applies a cubic-spline perturbation…
Transient glitch mitigation in Advanced LIGO data with
Jonathan Merritt, Ben Farr, Rachel Hur +2
"Glitches" -- transient noise artifacts in the data collected by gravitational wave interferometers like LIGO and Virgo -- are an ever-present obstacle for the search and character…
Cover Your Basis: Comprehensive Data-Driven Characterization of the Binary Black Hole Population
Bruce Edelman, Ben Farr, Zoheyr Doctor
We introduce the first complete non-parametric model for the astrophysical distribution of the binary black hole (BBH) population. Constructed from basis splines, we use these mode…
When are LIGO/Virgo's Big Black-Hole Mergers?
Maya Fishbach, Zoheyr Doctor, Thomas Callister +6
We study the evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) mass distribution across cosmic time. The second gravitational-wave transient catalog (GWTC-2) from LIGO/Virgo contains BBH ev…
Things that might go bump in the night: Assessing structure in the binary black hole mass spectrum
Amanda M. Farah, Bruce Edelman, Michael Zevin +4
Several features in the mass spectrum of merging binary black holes (BBHs) have been identified using data from the Third Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3). These featu…
Poking Holes: Looking for Gaps in LIGO/Virgo's Black Hole Population
Bruce Edelman, Zoheyr Doctor, Ben Farr
Stellar evolution models predict the existence of a gap in the black hole mass spectrum from due to pair-instability supernovae (PISNe). We investiga…