most citedEvidence of the pair instability gap from black hole masses

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astro-ph.IM2026

What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You: Self-Consistent Hierarchical Inference with Unknown Follow-up Selection Strategies

Reed Essick, Amanda M. Farah

Many astronomical surveys prompt follow-up observations, but the decision process through which candidates are selected for follow-up can be difficult to model. This poses a challe…

astro-ph.HE202613 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

Wide Jets or Low Rates: Reconciling Short GRB and Gravitational-Wave Neutron Star Merger Rates

Keerthi Kunnumkai, Antonella Palmese, Brendan O'Connor +2

Gravitational wave (GW) and short Gamma Ray Burst (sGRB) observations provide us with complementary views of compact object mergers. The paucity of binary neutron star merger (BNS)…

astro-ph.HE20269 cited

The steep redshift evolution of the hierarchical binary black hole merger rate may cause the - correlation

Amanda M. Farah, Aditya Vijaykumar, Maya Fishbach

There is growing evidence from gravitational-wave observations that some merging black holes are created from previous mergers. Using the prediction that these hierarchically merge…

astro-ph.HE2026

The maximum mass ratio of hierarchical binary black hole mergers may cause the - correlation

Aditya Vijaykumar, Amanda M. Farah, Maya Fishbach

Regardless of their initial spins, the merger of two roughly equal mass black holes (BHs) produces a remnant BH of dimensionless spin . Such remnants can merge with other BHs…

astro-ph.HE2026

Gravitational lensing rarely produces high-mass outliers to the compact binary population

Amanda M. Farah, Jose María Ezquiaga, Maya Fishbach +1

All gravitational-wave signals are inevitably gravitationally lensed by intervening matter as they propagate through the Universe. When a gravitational-wave signal is magnified, it…