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Distinguishing spin-aligned and isotropic black hole populations with gravitational waves

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  • Will M. Farr

    (Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham)

  • Simon Stevenson

    (Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)

  • M. Coleman Miller

    (University of Maryland)

  • Ilya Mandel

    (Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)

  • Ben Farr

    (Enrico Fermi Institute and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago)

  • Alberto Vecchio

    (Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham)

Abstract

The spins of the black holes involved in each of the four mergers that have been detected in gravitational waves so far were either small or not aligned with the binary orbit.

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  • Will M. Farr & Simon Stevenson & M. Coleman Miller & Ilya Mandel & Ben Farr & Alberto Vecchio, 2017. "Distinguishing spin-aligned and isotropic black hole populations with gravitational waves," Nature, Nature, vol. 548(7668), pages 426-429, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:548:y:2017:i:7668:d:10.1038_nature23453
    DOI: 10.1038/nature23453
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