3 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
Hints of an Anomalous Lens Population towards the Galactic Bulge
Scott E. Perkins, Peter McGill, William A. Dawson +4
The dark and dynamic parts of the Galaxy, including the bulk shape and movement of the Galactic Bulge and characteristics of dark compact object populations, such as a hypothetical…
astro-ph.HE2024
Investigating the mixing between two black hole populations in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-3
Ming-Feng Ho, Scott Ellis Perkins, Simeon Bird +4
We introduce a population model to analyze the mixing between hypothesised power-law and Gaussian bump black hole populations in the latest gravitational wave cat…
gr-qc2024
Birefringence tests of gravity with multi-messenger binaries
Macarena Lagos, Leah Jenks, Maximiliano Isi +7
Extensions to General Relativity (GR) allow the polarization of gravitational waves (GW) from astrophysical sources to suffer from amplitude and velocity birefringence, which respe…