3 papers
astro-ph.HE2025
Gravitational wave inference of star cluster properties from intermediate-mass black hole mergers
Konstantinos Kritos, Luca Reali, Ken K. Y. Ng +2
Next-generation ground-based gravitational wave observatories will observe mergers of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) out to high redshift. Such IMBHs can form through runawa…
astro-ph.HE2025
The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1634
We report on the population properties of compact binary mergers inferred from gravitational-wave observations of these systems during the first three LIGO-Virgo observing runs. Th…
astro-ph.HE2024
A Star Cluster Population of High Mass Black Hole Mergers in Gravitational Wave Data
Fabio Antonini, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Thomas Callister
Stellar evolution theories predict a gap in the black hole birth mass spectrum as the result of pair instability processes in the cores of massive stars.This gap, however, is not s…