Isolated or Dynamical? Tracing Black Hole Binary Formation through the Population of Gravitational-Wave Sources

Manuel Arca Sedda, Lavinia Paiella, Cristiano Ugolini +5

The population of binary black hole (BBH) mergers observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration offers a window into the cosmic evolution of compact binaries and their forma…