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

Will M. Farr (), Simon Stevenson, M. Coleman Miller, Ilya Mandel, Ben Farr and Alberto Vecchio
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Will M. Farr: Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
Simon Stevenson: Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
M. Coleman Miller: University of Maryland
Ilya Mandel: Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
Ben Farr: Enrico Fermi Institute and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago
Alberto Vecchio: Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

Nature, 2017, vol. 548, issue 7668, 426-429

Abstract: The spins of the black holes involved in each of the four mergers that have been detected in gravitational waves so far were either small or not aligned with the binary orbit.

Date: 2017
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