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End-to-End Population Inference from Gravitational-Wave Strain using Transformers
Konstantin Leyde, Stephen R. Green, Maximilian Dax +3
The population of compact binaries encodes information about their astrophysical origins and the expansion of the universe. Hierarchical Bayesian methods infer these properties by…
Gravitational-wave astronomy requires population-informed parameter estimation
Matthew Mould, Rodrigo Tenorio, Davide Gerosa
Gravitational-wave events are interpreted in terms of Bayesian posteriors for their source properties inferred under unphysical reference priors. Though these parameter estimates a…
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,…
Comparing astrophysical models to gravitational-wave data in the observable space
Alexandre Toubiana, Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould +9
Comparing population-synthesis models to the results of hierarchical Bayesian inference in gravitational-wave astronomy requires a careful understanding of the domain of validity o…
Constraining Population III stellar demographics with next-generation gravitational-wave observatories
Cailin Plunkett, Matthew Mould, Salvatore Vitale
Next-generation gravitational-wave observatories will reach farther into the universe than currently possible, revealing black-hole mergers from early stellar binary systems such a…
Which is which? Identification of the two compact objects in gravitational-wave binaries
Davide Gerosa, Viola De Renzis, Federica Tettoni +3
Compact objects observed in gravitational-wave astronomy so far always come in pairs and never individually. Identifying the two components of a binary system is a delicate operati…
Calibrating signal-to-noise ratio detection thresholds using gravitational-wave catalogs
Matthew Mould, Christopher J. Moore, Davide Gerosa
Searching for gravitational-wave signals is a challenging and computationally intensive endeavor undertaken by multiple independent analysis pipelines. While detection depends only…
Parameter estimation of binary black holes in the endpoint of the up-down instability
Viola De Renzis, Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould +2
Black-hole binary spin precession admits equilibrium solutions corresponding to systems with (anti-) aligned spins. Among these, binaries in the up-down configuration, where the sp…
Efficient multi-timescale dynamics of precessing black-hole binaries
Davide Gerosa, Giulia Fumagalli, Matthew Mould +4
We present analytical and numerical progress on black-hole binary spin precession at second post-Newtonian order using multi-timescale methods. In addition to the commonly used eff…
Characterization of merging black holes with two precessing spins
Viola De Renzis, Davide Gerosa, Geraint Pratten +2
Spin precession in merging black-hole binaries is a treasure trove for both astrophysics and fundamental physics. There are now well-established strategies to infer from gravitatio…
Looking for the parents of LIGO's black holes
Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Davide Gerosa +2
Solutions to the two-body problem in general relativity allow us to predict the mass, spin and recoil velocity of a black-hole merger remnant given the masses and spins of its bina…
Unstable binary black-hole spins: post-Newtonian theory and numerical relativity
Matthew Mould
Spin precession occurs in binary black holes whose spins are misaligned with the orbital angular momentum. Otherwise, the spin configuration is constant and the subsequent binary d…
Up-down instability of binary black holes in numerical relativity
Vijay Varma, Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa +3
Binary black holes with spins that are aligned with the orbital angular momentum do not precess. However, post-Newtonian calculations predict that "up-down" binaries, in which the…
A generalized precession parameter to interpret gravitational-wave data
Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould, Daria Gangardt +3
Originally designed for waveform approximants, the effective precession parameter is the most commonly used quantity to characterize spin-precession effects in gravi…
Mapping the asymptotic inspiral of precessing binary black holes to their merger remnants
Luca Reali, Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa +1
Multiple approaches are required to study the evolution of black-hole binaries. While the post-Newtonian approximation is sufficient to describe the early inspiral (even from infin…
Endpoint of the up-down instability in precessing binary black holes
Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa
Binary black holes in which both spins are aligned with the binary's orbital angular momentum do not precess. However, the up-down configuration, in which the spin of the heavier (…