3 papers
astro-ph.HE2020
Black hole genealogy: Identifying hierarchical mergers with gravitational waves
Chase Kimball, Colm Talbot, Christopher P. L. Berry +4
In dense stellar environments, the merger products of binary black hole mergers may undergo additional mergers. These hierarchical mergers are predicted to have higher masses than…
astro-ph.HE2019
The origin of spin in binary black holes: Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO
Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Ying Qin +7
We study the formation of coalescing binary black holes via the evolution of isolated field binaries that go through the common envelope phase in order to obtain the combined distr…
astro-ph.HE2019
What GW170729's exceptional mass and spin tells us about its family tree
Chase Kimball, Christopher P L Berry, Vicky Kalogera
Gravitational-wave observations give a unique insight into the formation and evolution of binary black holes. We use gravitational-wave measurements to address the question of whet…