Constraints from gravitational wave detections of binary black hole mergers on the $^{12}\rm{C}\left(α,γ\right)^{16}\!\rm{O}$ rate

no code implementations • 11 Jun 2020 • Robert Farmer, Mathieu Renzo, Selma de Mink, Maya Fishbach, Stephen Justham

With the first ten gravitational-wave detections of black holes, we constrain the astrophysical S-factor for $^{12}\rm{C}\left(\alpha,\gamma\right)^{16}\!\rm{O}$, at $300\rm{keV}$, to $S_{300}>175\rm{\, keV\, barns}$ at 68% confidence.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena