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most citedLIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Observing Runs

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astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 14 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 23 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 24 cited

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,…

astro-ph.HE2023

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-…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 75 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 55 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 47 cited

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 ()…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 106 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 8 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 57 cited

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…