Building Better Spin Models for Merging Binary Black Holes: Evidence for Nonspinning and Rapidly Spinning Nearly Aligned Subpopulations

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

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

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

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

Chemically Homogeneous Evolution: A rapid population synthesis approach

(2021) Jeff Riley et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2021) Chase Kimball et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

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

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

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

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

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

Constraints on binary black hole populations from LIGO–Virgo detections

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

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

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

Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Star Clusters: Highly Eccentric, Highly Spinning, and Repeated Binary Black Hole Mergers

(2018) Carl L. Rodriguez et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

Hierarchical analysis of gravitational-wave measurements of binary black hole spin–orbit misalignments

(2017) Simon Stevenson 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

Inferences about Supernova Physics from Gravitational-Wave Measurements: GW151226 Spin Misalignment as an Indicator of Strong Black-Hole Natal Kicks

(2017) Richard O’Shaughnessy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A new route towards merging massive black holes

(2016) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

GW150914: spin-based constraints on the merger time of the progenitor system

(2016) Doron Kushnir et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in short-period stellar binaries

(2016) Ilya Mandel 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

A new route towards merging massive black holes

(2016) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Simple Model of Complete Precessing Black-Hole-Binary Gravitational Waveforms

(2014) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Compact binary coalescences in the band of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

(2010) Ilya Mandel et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Formation of the black-hole binary M33 X-7 through mass exchange in a tight massive system

(2010) Francesca Valsecchi et al.   NATURE