Who Ordered That? Unequal-mass Binary Black Hole Mergers Have Larger Effective Spins

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Hierarchical analysis of binary black hole (BBH) detections by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors has offered an increasingly clear picture of their mass, spin, and redshift distributions. Fully understanding the formation and evolution...

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Main Authors: Callister, Thomas A (Author), Haster, Carl-Johan (Author), Ng, Ken KY (Author), Vitale, Salvatore (Author), Farr, Will M (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2022-05-04T15:19:41Z.
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