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Gravitational Wave Phase shifts of black hole mergers in AGN Disks
Hiromichi Tagawa, Connar Rowan, János Takátsy +4
Ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors have discovered about 200 compact object mergers. The astrophysical origins of these events are highly debated, and it is possible th…
Reconstructing the origin of black hole mergers using sparse astrophysical models
V. Gayathri, Giuliano Iorio, Hiromichi Tagawa +8
The astrophysical origin of binary black hole mergers discovered by LIGO and Virgo remains uncertain. Efforts to reconstruct the processes that lead to mergers typically rely on ei…
GW200208_222617 as an eccentric black-hole binary merger: properties and astrophysical implications
Isobel Romero-Shaw, Jakob Stegmann, Hiromichi Tagawa +4
Detecting orbital eccentricity in a stellar-mass black-hole merger would point to a non-isolated formation channel. Eccentric binaries can form in dense stellar environments such a…
Distinguishing the Origin of Eccentric Black Hole Mergers with Gravitational-wave Spin Measurements
Jakob Stegmann, Davide Gerosa, Isobel Romero-Shaw +3
It remains an open question whether the binary black hole mergers observed with gravitational-wave detectors originate from the evolution of isolated massive binary stars or were d…
LVK S241125n: Massive Binary Black Hole Merger Produces Gamma Ray Burst in Active Galactic Nucleus Disk
Shu-Rui Zhang, Yu Wang, Ye-Fei Yuan +6
Recently, the gravitational-wave (GW) event S241125n, detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK), has been reported to coincide with a candidate detected by Swift-BAT/GUANO and an X-ray ca…
What Determines the Maximum Mass of AGN-assisted Black Hole Mergers?
LingQin Xue, Hiromichi Tagawa, Zoltan Haiman +1
The origin of merging binary black holes detected through gravitational waves remains a fundamental question in astrophysics. While stellar evolution imposes an upper mass limit of…