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Population-Level Verification of the Black-Hole Area Law with First- and Second-Generation Black Holes
Shao-Peng Tang, Yin-Jie Li, Yi-Zhong Fan
Hawking's area theorem states that the total event-horizon area of classical black holes can never decrease. Gravitational-wave tests of this law have so far focused on individual…
Fast Radio Bursts Trace Cosmic Star Formation with Little Delay
Yi-Ying Wang, Yin-Jie Li, Yi-Zhong Fan
The progenitor channels of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain debated, with a central question being whether their cosmic rate traces star formation promptly or instead follows it wit…
Smoking-gun evidence for hierarchical black-hole mergers
Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Shao-Peng Tang +1
How stellar-mass black holes grow after their birth is a central open question in astrophysics. Gravitational-wave observations have revealed a subpopulation of coalescing black ho…
Secondary-Mass Features improve Spectral-Siren Constraints
Yin-Jie Li, Yi-Ying Wang, Yuan-Zhu Wang +2
Gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) enable independent measurements of the Hubble constant \(H_0\) via the spectral siren method, which critical…
Neutron Star Merger Rates from Multi-messenger Observations: Clues to the Physical Origin of the Short and Long-short Gamma-ray Bursts
Zhi-Ping Jin, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Yin-Jie Li +4
Short and long-short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely believed to be powered by neutron star mergers. In this work, we calculate local rate of such GRBs and find a relatively hig…
Verification of the Black Hole Area Law with GW230814
Shao-Peng Tang, Hai-Tian Wang, Yin-Jie Li +1
We present an observational confirmation of Hawking's black-hole area theorem using the newly released gravitational-wave data from the GWTC-4.0. We analyze the high signal-to-nois…
A new group of low-spin Black Holes and the high pair-instability mass cutoff
Yuan-Zhu Wang, Yin-Jie Li, Shi-Jie Gao +2
Pair-instability supernovae (PISN) will not leave compact remnants and hence yield a mass gap of the black holes. Though a transition point at , separating low-…
Evidence for the dynamical dark energy with evolving Hubble constant
Yi-Ying Wang, Yin-Jie Li, Yi-Zhong Fan
Hubble constant tension, together with the recent indications of dynamical dark energy proposed from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) baryon acoustic oscillation (BA…
Aligned Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active-Galactic-Nuclei Disks Revealed by GWTC-4
Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Shao-Peng Tang +1
The active galactic nucleus (AGN) accretion disks are ideal sites for hierarchical black hole (BH) mergers. To robustly probe such a possibility, we analyze binary black hole merge…
GW231123: Likely a product of successive mergers from stellar-mass black holes
Yin-Jie Li, Shao-Peng Tang, Ling-Qin Xue +1
GW231123 is an exceptionally massive binary black hole (BBH) merger with unusually high component spins. Such extreme properties challenge conventional stellar evolution models pre…
Revealing the - Correlation among Coalescing Binary Black Holes and Tentative Evidence for AGN-driven Hierarchical Mergers
Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Shao-Peng Tang +2
The origin of the correlation between the effective spins () and mass ratios () of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's binary black holes (BBHs) is still an open question. Motivated…
Forecast Analysis of Astrophysical Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background beyond general relativity: A Case Study on Brans-Dicke Gravity
Ran Chen, Zhao Li, Yin-Jie Li +4
Scalar-tensor gravity, exemplified by Brans-Dicke (BD) gravity, introduces additional scalar polarization modes that contribute scalar radiation alongside tensor modes. We conduct…
The Heavier the Faster: A Sub-population of Heavy, Rapidly Spinning and Quickly Evolving Binary Black Holes
Wei-Hua Guo, Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang +4
The spins of binary black holes (BBHs) measured from gravitational waves carry notable information of the formation pathways. Here we propose a quantity "dimensionless net spin" ($…
Multi-spectral Sirens: Gravitational-wave Cosmology with (Multi-) Sub-populations of Binary Black Holes
Yin-Jie Li, Shao-Peng Tang, Yuan-Zhu Wang +1
The cosmic expansion rate can be directly measured with gravitational-wave (GW) data of the compact binary mergers by jointly constraining the mass function of the population and t…
Exploring field-evolution and dynamical-capture coalescing binary black holes in GWTC-3
Yin-Jie Li, Shao-Peng Tang, Shi-Jie Gao +2
We investigate formation channels for merging binary black holes (BBHs) in GWTC-3, with a dedicated semiparametric population model. The model first describes or excludes a high-sp…
Measuring Mass and Radius of the Maximum-mass Nonrotating Neutron Star
Shao-Peng Tang, Bo Gao, Yin-Jie Li +2
The mass () and radius () of the maximum-mass nonrotating neutron star (NS) play a crucial role in constraining the elusive equation of state of cold dens…
Dark Matter Spike surrounding Supermassive Black Holes Binary and the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
Zhao-Qiang Shen, Guan-Wen Yuan, Yi-Ying Wang +3
The NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, CPTA and MPTA collaborations have reported compelling evidence for the existence of the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB). This inferred bac…
Resolving the Stellar-Collapse and Hierarchical-Merger origins of the Coalescing Black Holes
Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Shao-Peng Tang +1
Spin and mass properties provide essential clues in distinguishing the origins of coalescing black holes (BHs). With a dedicated semiparametric population model for the coalescing…
Potential Subpopulations and Assembling Tendency of the Merging Black Holes
Yuan-Zhu Wang, Yin-Jie Li, Jorick S. Vink +4
The origins of coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) detected by the advanced LIGO/Virgo are still under debate, and clues may be present in the joint mass-spin distribution of thes…
Divergence in mass ratio distributions between low-mass and high-mass coalescing binary black holes
Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Shao-Peng Tang +3
Coalescing binary black hole (BBH) systems are likely formed via several channels, and it is challenging to understand their formation / evolutionary processes. Some features in th…
Population properties of neutron stars in the coalescing compact binaries
Yin-Jie Li, Shao-Peng Tang, Yuan-Zhu Wang +3
We perform a hierarchical Bayesian inference to investigate the population properties of the coalescing compact binaries involving at least one neutron star (NS). With the current…
Black Hole Gravitational Potential Enhanced Fallback Accretion onto the Nascent Lighter Compact Object: Tentative Evidence in the O3 Run Data of LIGO/Virgo
Shao-Peng Tang, Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang +2
In a binary system, the gravitational potential of the primary black hole may play an important role in enhancing the fallback accretion onto the lighter compact object newly forme…
GW190426_152155: a merger of neutron star-black hole or low mass binary black holes?
Yin-Jie Li, Ming-Zhe Han, Shao-Peng Tang +5
GW190426_152155 was recently reported as one of the 39 candidate gravitational wave (GW) events in \citet{2020arXiv201014527A}, which has an unusual source-frame chirp mass $\sim 2…
Is GW190425 consistent with being a neutron starblack hole merger?
Ming-Zhe Han, Shao-Peng Tang, Yi-Ming Hu +5
GW190425 is the second neutron star merger event detected by the Advanced LIGO/Virgo detectors. If interpreted as a double neutron star merger, the total gravitational mass is subs…