no code implementations • 20 Jan 2021 • Carl L. Rodriguez, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee, Giacomo Fragione, Abraham Loeb, Frederic A. Rasio, Newlin C. Weatherford, Claire S. Ye
Since the first signal in 2015, the gravitational-wave detections of merging binary black holes (BBHs) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations (LVC) have completely transformed our understanding of the lives and deaths of compact object binaries, and have motivated an enormous amount of theoretical work on the astrophysical origin of these objects.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
no code implementations • 19 Sep 2016 • Carl L. Rodriguez, Michael Zevin, Chris Pankow, Vicky Kalogera, Frederic A. Rasio
In particular, these heavy-black-hole binaries can only form with a significant spin-orbit anti-alignment in the dynamical channel.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena