Testing Spin Prior Assumptions of Binary Black Hole Parameter Inference and Their Astrophysical Implications

Chen-He Wu, Wei-Hua Guo, Shu-Jin Hou +2

With the growing number of binary black hole (BBH) candidates in the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 5.0 (GWTC-5.0), an increasing number of BBH systems with distinct properti…