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A Strongly Parametrized Mass Ratio Model for the Stable Mass Transfer Channel: a Case Study of the Peak
Jaxen Godfrey, Lieke van Son, Ben Farr
The mass ratio of merging binary black holes (BBHs) carries information about their formation history, yet has received less attention than masses, spins and eccentricities as a ch…
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…
Cosmic Cousins: Identification of a Subpopulation of Binary Black Holes Consistent with Isolated Binary Evolution
Jaxen Godfrey, Bruce Edelman, Ben Farr
Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact binaries have become a regular occurrence. The continued advancement of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration dete…
Ain't No Mountain High Enough: Semi-Parametric Modeling of LIGO-Virgos Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution
Bruce Edelman, Zoheyr Doctor, Jaxen Godfrey +1
We introduce a semi-parametric model for the primary mass distribution of binary black holes (BBHs) observed with gravitational waves (GWs) that applies a cubic-spline perturbation…
Experimental Relativity with Accretion Disk Observations
Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano, Jaxen Godfrey, Nicolas Yunes +1
Electromagnetic observations have been used over the past decades to understand the nature of black holes and the material around them. Our ability to learn about the fundamental p…