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On the rate of black hole binary mergers in galactic nuclei due to dynamical hardening
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Aaron M. Geller, B. McKernan +9
We assess the contribution of dynamical hardening by direct three-body scattering interactions to the rate of stellar-mass black hole binary (BHB) mergers in galactic nuclei. We de…
An effective formalism for testing extensions to General Relativity with gravitational waves
Solomon Endlich, Victor Gorbenko, Junwu Huang +1
The recent direct observation of gravitational waves (GW) from merging black holes opens up the possibility of exploring the theory of gravity in the strong regime at an unpreceden…
On stellar-mass black hole mergers in AGN disks detectable with LIGO
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, J. Bellovary +9
Black hole mergers detectable with LIGO can occur in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks. Here we parameterize the merger rates, the mass spectrum and the spin spectrum of black ho…