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

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Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters IV: updated stellar-evolutionary and black hole spin models and comparisons with the LIGO-Virgo O1/O2 merger-event data

(2020) Sambaran Banerjee   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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

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Merging black hole binaries with the SEVN code

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Black hole growth through hierarchical black hole mergers in dense star clusters: implications for gravitational wave detections

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Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei

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Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

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Intermediate-mass black holes in AGN discs – II. Model predictions and observational constraints

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