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
2 code implementations • 21 May 2018 • Carl L. Rodriguez, Fabio Antonini
We explore the masses, merger rates, eccentricities, and spins for field binary black holes driven to merger by a third companion through the Lidov-Kozai mechanism.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2 code implementations • 20 Nov 2017 • Fabio Antonini, Carl L. Rodriguez, Cristobal Petrovich, Caitlin L. Fischer
The binary black hole mergers detected by Advanced LIGO/Virgo have shown no evidence of large black hole spins.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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
