Understanding How Fast Black Holes Spin by Analyzing Data from the Second Gravitational-wave Catalogue

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

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

PESummary: The code agnostic Parameter Estimation Summary page builder

(2021) Charlie Hoy et al.   SoftwareX

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

(2021) Thomas A. Callister et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

(2021) Shanika Galaudage et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Black hole induced spins from hyperbolic encounters in dense clusters

(2021) Santiago Jaraba et al.   Physics of the Dark Universe

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

(2020) Pauli Virtanen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Array programming with NumPy

(2020) Charles R. Harris et al.   NATURE

Astrophysical Implications of GW190412 as a Remnant of a Previous Black-Hole Merger

(2020) Davide Gerosa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

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

Extracting distribution parameters from multiple uncertain observations with selection biases

(2019) Ilya Mandel 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

Estimation of the sensitive volume for gravitational-wave source populations using weighted Monte Carlo integration

(2018) Vaibhav Tiwari   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

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

(2017) Will M. Farr et al.   NATURE

GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

(2017) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

(2017) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

(2017) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers

(2016) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence

(2016) Samantha A Usman et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Inference on gravitational waves from coalescences of stellar-mass compact objects and intermediate-mass black holes

(2016) Carl-Johan Haster et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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

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

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

Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   Physical Review X

The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers

(2016) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Advanced LIGO

(2015) et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Towards models of gravitational waveforms from generic binaries: II. Modelling precession effects with a single effective precession parameter

(2015) Patricia Schmidt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Advanced Virgo: a second-generation interferometric gravitational wave detector

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

Measuring the Spin of Black Holes in Binary Systems Using Gravitational Waves

(2014) Salvatore Vitale et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

(2014) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

(2013) Emily Baird et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Inspiral-Merger-Ringdown Waveforms for Black-Hole Binaries with Nonprecessing Spins

(2011) P. Ajith 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

Estimating the final spin of a binary black hole coalescence

(2008) Alessandra Buonanno et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D