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astro-ph.SR2024
On Finding Black Holes in Photometric Microlensing Surveys
Zofia Kaczmarek, Peter McGill, Scott E. Perkins +5
There are expected to be millions of isolated black holes in the Galaxy resulting from the death of massive stars. Measuring the abundance and properties of this remnant population…
astro-ph.IM2024
popclass: a python package for classifying microlensing events
Greg Sallaberry, Zofia Kaczmarek, Peter McGill +3
popclass is a python package that provides a flexible, probabilistic framework for classifying the lens of a gravitational microlensing event. popclass allows a user to match chara…
astro-ph.HE2024
Investigating the mixing between two black hole populations in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-3
Ming-Feng Ho, Scott Ellis Perkins, Simeon Bird +4
We introduce a population model to analyze the mixing between hypothesised power-law and Gaussian bump black hole populations in the latest gravitational wave cat…