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GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818: astrophysical interpretation of two asymmetric binary black hole mergers in the IAS catalog
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Digvijay Wadekar +6
We provide a comprehensive analysis of GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818, two of the most significant binary black hole merger candidates in the IAS catalog, with probabilities o…
Recoil kicks from binary black hole mergers in GWTC catalogs: implications for retention and hierarchical mergers
Tousif Islam
We infer recoil (kick) velocities for both individual binary black hole (BBH) mergers and candidate intermediate-mass black hole events, as well as for the BBH populations inferred…
Kick matters: The impact of a new recoil model on the retention of hierarchical black-hole remnants in globular clusters
Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar, Konstantinos Kritos
In globular clusters, hierarchical mergers are among the most promising pathways to forming massive black holes such as GW231123. A key factor determining whether a merger-remnant…
Progenitor of the recoiling super-massive black hole RBH-1 identified using HST/JWST imaging
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Digvijay Wadekar
Using a combination of \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} and \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} imaging, a runaway supermassive black hole (RBH-1) was recently identified with an in…
gwharmone: first data-driven surrogate for eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta +6
We present gwharmone, the first data-driven surrogate model for eccentric harmonics (as well as the full radiation content) of the dominant quadrupolar mode in eccentric, non-spinn…
Straightforward mode hierarchy in eccentric binary black hole mergers and associated waveform model
Tousif Islam
Utilizing publicly available non-spinning eccentric binary black hole (BBH) merger simulations (\href{https://data.black-holes.org/waveforms/catalog.html}{https://data.black-holes.…