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Spinformation: do gravitational-wave events carry information beyond effective spins?
Cailin Plunkett, Jack Heinzel, Noah E. Wolfe +2
While the spin vectors of binary black holes offer insight into the astrophysical formation channels of these systems, individual spins are less precisely measured through gravitat…
Binary-black hole spin population results may be driven by prior degeneracies
Noah E. Wolfe, Asad Hussain, Jack Heinzel +1
Gravitational waves carry information on the spins of merging binary-black holes. The orientations of their spins relative to their orbits ("tilts")---while challenging to measure-…
LIGO A: Detector Design and Science Prospects Beyond A+
L. Sun, K. Kuns, B. J. J. Slagmolen +1153
We present the LIGO A detector concept, an upgrade for the LIGO observatories based on room-temperature interferometers beyond the fifth observing run (O5). Building on th…
Measurement prospects for the pair-instability mass cutoff with gravitational waves
Matthew Mould, Jack Heinzel, Sofia Alvarez-Lopez +3
Pair-instability supernovae leave behind no compact remnants, resulting in a predicted gap in the distribution of stellar black-hole masses. Gravitational waves from binary black-h…
Reducing systematic uncertainties in gravitational-wave population analyses by increasing the detection threshold
Noah E. Wolfe, Matthew Mould, Jack Heinzel +1
From catalogs of gravitational-wave transients, the population-level properties of their sources and the formation channels of merging compact binaries can be constrained. However,…
Evidence of the pair instability gap from black hole masses
Hui Tong, Maya Fishbach, Eric Thrane +13
Stellar theory predicts a forbidden range of black-hole masses between -- due to pair-instability supernovae, but evidence for such a gap in the mass distri…
Nowhere left to hide: revealing realistic gravitational-wave populations in high dimensions and high resolution with PixelPop
Sofia Alvarez-Lopez, Jack Heinzel, Matthew Mould +1
The origins of merging compact binaries observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors remain uncertain, with multiple astrophysical channels possibly contributing t…
Nonparametric analysis of correlations in the binary black hole population with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data
Jack Heinzel, Matthew Mould, Salvatore Vitale
Formation channels of merging compact binaries imprint themselves on the distributions and correlations of their source parameters, but current understanding of this population is…
PixelPop: High Resolution Nonparameteric Inference of Gravitational-Wave Populations in Multiple Dimensions
Jack Heinzel, Matthew Mould, Sofía Álvarez-López +1
The origins of merging compact binaries observed by gravitational-wave detectors remains highly uncertain. Several astrophysical channels may contribute to the overall merger rate,…
Probing Correlations in the Binary Black Hole Population with Flexible Models
Jack Heinzel, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Salvatore Vitale
The astrophysical formation channels of binary black hole systems predict correlations between their mass, spin, and redshift distributions, which can be probed with gravitational-…
Inferring the Astrophysical Population of Gravitational Wave Sources in the Presence of Noise Transients
Jack Heinzel, Colm Talbot, Gregory Ashton +1
The global network of interferometric gravitational wave (GW) observatories (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA) has detected and characterized nearly 100 mergers of binary compact objects. Howeve…
An updated nuclear-physics and multi-messenger astrophysics framework for binary neutron star mergers
Peter T. H. Pang, Tim Dietrich, Michael W. Coughlin +18
The multi-messenger detection of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817, the corresponding kilonova AT2017gfo and the short gamma-ray burst GRB170817A, as well as the observed afte…
LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Observing Runs
D. Davis, J. S. Areeda, B. K. Berger +284
The characterization of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the second and third observing runs has increased the sensitivity of the instruments, allowing for a higher number of detecta…
Comparing inclination dependent analyses of kilonova transients
J. Heinzel, M. W. Coughlin, T. Dietrich +7
The detection of AT2017gfo proved that binary neutron star mergers are progenitors of kilonovae. Using a combination of numerical-relativity and radiative-transfer simulations, the…
Measuring the Hubble Constant with a sample of kilonovae
Michael W. Coughlin, Sarah Antier, Tim Dietrich +7
Kilonovae produced by the coalescence of compact binaries with at least one neutron star are promising standard sirens for an independent measurement of the Hubble constant ()…
On the nature of GW190814 and its impact on the understanding of supranuclear matter
Ingo Tews, Peter T. H. Pang, Tim Dietrich +5
The observation of a compact object with a mass of on August 14, 2019, by the LIGO Scientific and Virgo collaborations (LVC) has the potential to improve our u…
Multi-messenger constraints on the neutron-star equation of state and the Hubble constant
Tim Dietrich, Michael W. Coughlin, Peter T. H. Pang +5
Observations of neutron-star mergers based on distinct messengers, including gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals, can be used to study the behavior of matter denser tha…
On standardizing kilonovae and their use as standard candles to measure the Hubble constant
Michael W. Coughlin, Tim Dietrich, Jack Heinzel +6
The detection of GW170817 is revolutionizing many areas of astrophysics with the joint observation of gravitational waves and electromagnetic emissions. These multi-messenger event…