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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…
Astrophysical Prior Information and Gravitational-wave Parameter Estimation
Chris Pankow, Laura Sampson, Leah Perri +4
The detection of electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves has great promise for the investigation of many scientific questions. It has long been hoped that in addition t…
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…
body dynamics of Intermediate mass-ratio inspirals in globular clusters
Carl-Johan Haster, Fabio Antonini, Vicky Kalogera +1
The intermediate mass-ratio inspiral of a stellar compact remnant into an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) can produce a gravitational wave (GW) signal that is potentially detec…
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…