3 papers
gr-qc2025
Probing Binary Black Hole Formation Channels through Cosmic Large-Scale Structure
William J. Smith, Krystal Ruiz-Rocha, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann +2
The growing number of binary black hole mergers detected through gravitational waves offers unprecedented insight into their underlying population, yet their astrophysical formatio…
astro-ph.HE2025
A Sea of Black Holes: Characterizing the LISA Signature for Stellar-Origin Black Hole Binaries
Krystal Ruiz-Rocha, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Karan Jani +3
Observations by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA (LVK) detectors have provided new insights in the demographics of stellar-origin black hole binaries (sBHB). A few years before gravitatio…
astro-ph.HE2025
Properties of 'Lite' Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidates in LIGO-Virgo's Third Observing Run
Krystal Ruiz-Rocha, Anjali B. Yelikar, Jacob Lange +5
Over a hundred gravitational-wave (GW) detections and candidates have been reported from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) detectors. Among thes…