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Evidence for additional structure in the effective spin distribution hints at multiple formation pathways in GWTC-5.0
Sofia Alvarez-Lopez, Jack Heinzel, Salvatore Vitale
The distribution of the effective inspiral spin () of the binary black holes detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA can shed light on their formation pathways. We analyze the…
No model-independent evidence for a peak in binary black hole spin (mis)alignments
Noah E. Wolfe, Salvatore Vitale, Michael Zevin
The degree of black-hole spin-orbit misalignment ("tilts") in the astrophysical population could be a powerful diagnostic to distinguish between binary formation in isolation, in d…
Neural Bayesian updates to populations with growing gravitational-wave catalogs
Noah E. Wolfe, Matthew Mould, John Veitch +1
As gravitational-wave catalogs grow, they will become increasingly computationally expensive to analyze in their entirety, especially when inferring astrophysical source population…
The impact of selection biases on tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave inspirals
Ryan Magee, Maximiliano Isi, Ethan Payne +4
Tests of general relativity with gravitational wave observations from merging compact binaries continue to confirm Einstein's theory of gravity with increasing precision. However,…
Reanalysis of LIGO black-hole coalescences with alternative prior assumptions
Davide Gerosa, Salvatore Vitale, Carl-Johan Haster +2
We present a critical reanalysis of the black-hole binary coalescences detected during LIGO's first observing run under different Bayesian prior assumptions. We summarize the main…
Impact of Bayesian prior on the characterization of binary black hole coalescences
Salvatore Vitale, Davide Gerosa, Carl-Johan Haster +2
In a regime where data are only mildly informative, prior choices can play a significant role in Bayesian statistical inference, potentially affecting the inferred physics. We show…