no code implementations • 19 Jan 2021 • Maya Fishbach, Zoheyr Doctor, Thomas Callister, Bruce Edelman, Jiani Ye, Reed Essick, Will M. Farr, Ben Farr, Daniel E. Holz
An abrupt cutoff in the mass spectrum is expected from (pulsational) pair instability supernova simulations; however, GWTC-2 is only consistent with a Truncated mass model if the location of the cutoff increases from $45^{+13}_{-5}\, M_\odot$ at $z < 0. 4$ to $80^{+16}_{-13}\, M_\odot$ at $z > 0. 4$.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology