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Illuminating Black Hole Binary Formation Channels with Spins in Advanced LIGO
Carl L. Rodriguez, Michael Zevin, Chris Pankow +2
The recent detections of the binary black hole mergers GW150914 and GW151226 have inaugurated the field of gravitational-wave astronomy. For the two main formation channels that ha…
Dynamical Formation of Low-Mass Merging Black Hole Binaries like GW151226
Sourav Chatterjee, Carl L. Rodriguez, Vicky Kalogera +1
Using numerical models for star clusters spanning a wide range in ages and metallicities (Z) we study the masses of binary black holes (BBHs) produced dynamically and merging in th…
Distinguishing Between Formation Channels for Binary Black Holes with LISA
Katelyn Breivik, Carl L. Rodriguez, Shane L. Larson +2
The recent detections of GW150914 and GW151226 imply an abundance of stellar-mass binary-black-hole mergers in the local universe. While ground-based gravitational-wave detectors a…
Dynamical Formation of the GW150914 Binary Black Hole
Carl L. Rodriguez, Carl-Johan Haster, Sourav Chatterjee +2
We explore the possibility that GW150914, the binary black hole merger recently detected by Advanced LIGO, was formed by gravitational interactions in the core of a dense star clus…
Binary Black Hole Mergers from Globular Clusters: Masses, Merger Rates, and the Impact of Stellar Evolution
Carl L. Rodriguez, Sourav Chatterjee, Frederic A. Rasio
The recent discovery of GW150914, the binary black hole merger detected by Advanced LIGO, has the potential to revolutionize observational astrophysics. But to fully utilize this n…
Binary Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters: Exploring the Theoretical Uncertainties
Sourav Chatterjee, Carl L. Rodriguez, Frederic A. Rasio
Recent N-body simulations predict that large numbers of stellar black holes (BHs) could remain bound to globular clusters (GCs) at present, and merging BH--BH binaries are produced…