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most citedGravitational wave source populations: Disentangling an AGN component

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astro-ph.HE2026

Narrow Population Inference Enhanced by Analytical Likelihood Models

Meesum Qazalbash, Sophiya Mehra, Muhammad Zeeshan +2

The growing catalog of gravitational-wave events has revealed substantial diversity in the properties of compact-binary mergers. However, commonly used population-inference methods…

astro-ph.HE2026

McFACTS. IV. Electromagnetic Counterparts to AGN-disk-embedded Binary Black Hole Mergers

Emily McPike, Rosalba Perna, K. E. Saavik Ford +10

The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are promising environments for producing binary black hole (BBH) mergers, which have been detected via gravitational waves (GWs…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

McFACTS II: Mass Ratio--Effective Spin Relationship of Black Hole Mergers in the AGN Channel

Harrison E. Cook, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford +6

We use the Monte Carlo For AGN (active galactic nucleus) Channel Testing and Simulation (McFACTS, https://www.github.com/mcfacts/mcfacts) code to study the effect of AGN disk and n…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 17 cited

McFacts III: Compact binary mergers from AGN disks over an entire synthetic universe

Vera Delfavero, K. E. Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan +6

The Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) channel for the formation of binary black hole (BBH) mergers has been previously studied as a potential formation channel for the merging compact b…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

McFACTS I: Testing the LVK AGN channel with Monte Carlo For AGN Channel Testing & Simulation (McFACTS)

Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford, Harrison E. Cook +6

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are a promising source of the binary black hole (BBH) mergers observed in gravitational waves with LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK). Constraining the AGN channel…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 8 cited

A Nuclear Equation of State Inferred from Stellar r-process Abundances

Erika M. Holmbeck, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Vera Delfavero +1

Binary neutron star mergers (NSMs) have been confirmed as one source of the heaviest observable elements made by the rapid neutron-capture (r-) process. However, modeling NSM outfl…