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

The impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of field binary black hole populations

(2021) S. S. Bavera et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

One Channel to Rule Them All? Constraining the Origins of Binary Black Holes Using Multiple Formation Pathways

(2021) Michael Zevin et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

(2021) R. Abbott et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

New Spin on LIGO-Virgo Binary Black Holes

(2021) Sylvia Biscoveanu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The Emergence of Structure in the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution

(2021) Vaibhav Tiwari et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Evidence for Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational Wave Catalog

(2021) Chase Kimball et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

New insights on binary black hole formation channels after GWTC-2: young star clusters versus isolated binaries

(2021) Yann Bouffanais et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run

(2021) R. Abbott et al.   Physical Review X

Hierarchical mergers of stellar-mass black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

(2021) Davide Gerosa et al.   Nature Astronomy

State of the Field: Binary Black Hole Natal Kicks and Prospects for Isolated Field Formation after GWTC-2

(2021) Thomas A. Callister et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The origin of spin in binary black holes: Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO

(2020) S. S. Bavera et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

dynesty: A Dynamic Nested Sampling Package for Estimating Bayesian Posteriors and Evidences

(2020) Joshua S Speagle   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

(2020) Pauli Virtanen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates for LIGO/Virgo binary black holes

(2020) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Monte Carlo simulations of black hole mergers in AGN discs: Low χeff mergers and predictions for LIGO

(2020) B McKernan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Binary black holes in young star clusters: the impact of metallicity

(2020) Ugo N Di Carlo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Characterization of systematic error in Advanced LIGO calibration

(2020) Ling Sun et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with Bilby: Validation and application to the first LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue

(2020) I M Romero-Shaw et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Array programming with NumPy

(2020) Charles R. Harris et al.   NATURE

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150  M⊙

(2020) R. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Overview of KAGRA : Detector design and construction history

(2020) T Akutsu et al.   Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Extracting distribution parameters from multiple uncertain observations with selection biases

(2019) Ilya Mandel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Constraints on binary black hole populations from LIGO–Virgo detections

(2019) Javier Roulet et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

(2019) B. P. Abbott et al.   Physical Review X

The spin of the second-born black hole in coalescing binary black holes

(2018) Y. Qin et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The spin of the second-born black hole in coalescing binary black holes

(2018) Y. Qin et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The expected spins of gravitational wave sources with isolated field binary progenitors

(2017) Matias Zaldarriaga et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2017) Will M. Farr et al.   NATURE

Planck2015 results

(2016) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Assisted inspirals of stellar mass black holes embedded in AGN discs: solving the ‘final au problem’

(2016) Nicholas C. Stone et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Planck2015 results

(2016) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Advanced LIGO

(2015) et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Advanced Virgo: a second-generation interferometric gravitational wave detector

(2014) F Acernese et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

(2013) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Degeneracy between mass and spin in black-hole-binary waveforms

(2013) Emily Baird et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Statistical and systematic errors for gravitational-wave inspiral signals: A principal component analysis

(2013) Frank Ohme et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Testing the validity of the single-spin approximation in inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms

(2013) Michael Pürrer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

emcee: The MCMC Hammer

(2013) Daniel Foreman-Mackey et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

Intermediate mass black holes in AGN discs - I. Production and growth

(2012) B. McKernan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY