2 papers
gr-qc2024
Spin Doctors: How to diagnose a hierarchical merger origin
Ethan Payne, Kyle Kremer, Michael Zevin
Gravitational-wave observations provide the unique opportunity of studying black hole formation channels and histories -- but only if we can identify their origin. One such formati…
astro-ph.HE2024
Visualizing the Number of Existing and Future Gravitational-Wave Detections from Merging Double Compact Objects
Floor S. Broekgaarden, Sharan Banagiri, Ethan Payne
How many gravitational-wave observations from double compact object mergers have we seen to date? This seemingly simple question surprisingly yields a somewhat ambiguous answer tha…