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Revealing Four Subpopulations of Binary Black-Hole Mergers with the Fifth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

Nir Guttman, Paul D. Lasky, Eric Thrane

Gravitational-wave data are beginning to reveal a structured landscape of black-hole masses and spins, suggesting multiple formation processes are now being resolved observationall…

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Fortifying gravitational-wave population inference with normalizing flows

Christian Adamcewicz, Hugh McDougall, Paul D. Lasky +1

As the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration's (LVK's) gravitational-wave transient catalog grows, we are learning a wealth of information from the population properties of binary black h…

astro-ph.HE2026

Licence to Bin: Accurate and Scalable Inference for Binary Neutron Stars in Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Nir Guttman, A. Makai Baker, Paul D. Lasky +1

Next-generation gravitational-wave observatories will observe binary neutron-star mergers with much higher signal-to-noise ratios, over much longer durations and across broader fre…

astro-ph.HE20263 cited

Evidence for Three Subpopulations of Merging Binary Black Holes at Different Primary Masses

Sharan Banagiri, Eric Thrane, Paul D. Lasky

With the release of the fourth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA gravitational-wave catalog (GWTC-4), we are starting to gain a detailed view of the population of merging binary black holes. The…

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A universal framework to identify eccentric binary mergers: GW200105 case study

Teagan A. Clarke, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Charlie Hoy +3

Orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave signals from merging compact object binaries is a powerful indicator of their formation channel. Several binary black hole mergers and a…

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Evidence of the pair instability gap from black hole masses

Hui Tong, Maya Fishbach, Eric Thrane +13

Stellar theory predicts a forbidden range of black-hole masses between -- due to pair-instability supernovae, but evidence for such a gap in the mass distri…