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astro-ph.HE2021★ 73 cited
Bridging the Gap: Categorizing Gravitational-Wave Events at the Transition Between Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Amanda M. Farah, Maya Fishbach, Reed Essick +2
We search for features in the mass distribution of detected compact binary coalescences which signify the transition between neutron stars and black holes. We analyze all gravitati…
astro-ph.HE2021★ 34 cited
Probing Extremal Gravitational-Wave Events with Coarse-Grained Likelihoods
Reed Essick, Amanda Farah, Shanika Galaudage +4
As catalogs of gravitational-wave transients grow, new records are set for the most extreme systems observed to date. The most massive observed black holes probe the physics of pai…