Publications (6)
The evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates of LIGO/Virgo binary black holes
K. Belczynski, J. Klencki, C. E. Fields +31
All ten LIGO/Virgo binary black hole (BH-BH) coalescences reported from the O1/O2 runs have near zero effective spins. There are only three potential explanations of this fact. If…
Accelerated inference of binary black-hole populations from the stochastic gravitational-wave background
G. Giarda, A. I. Renzini, C. Pacilio +1
Third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors are expected to observe of overlapping signals per year from a multitude of astrophysical sources tha…
Amplification of superkicks in black-hole binaries through orbital eccentricity
U. Sperhake, R. Rosca-Mead, D. Gerosa +1
We present new numerical-relativity simulations of eccentric merging black holes with initially antiparallel spins lying in the orbital plane (the so-called \emph{superkick} config…
Populations of double white dwarfs in Milky Way satellites and their detectability with LISA
V. Korol, S. Toonen, A. Klein +8
Milky Way dwarf satellites are unique objects that encode the early structure formation and therefore represent a window into the high redshift Universe. So far, their study was co…
Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA
Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Thomas Hertog +318
In this paper, which is of programmatic rather than quantitative nature, we aim to further delineate and sharpen the future potential of the LISA mission in the area of fundamental…
Explaining LIGO's observations via isolated binary evolution with natal kicks
D. Wysocki, D. Gerosa, R. O'Shaughnessy +5
We compare binary evolution models with different assumptions about black-hole natal kicks to the first gravitational-wave observations performed by the LIGO detectors. Our compari…