Physics-based phenomenological modeling of binary black hole hierarchical formation 1: Synthetic universes from globular cluster simulations for GWTC

R. O'Shaughnessy, R. Mechum, M. Qazalbash +2

We iteratively model the GWTC-5.0 binary-black-hole census with three components. First, a physically normalized population from Rapster globular-cluster simulations spans cluster…