Understanding How Fast Black Holes Spin by Analyzing Data from the Second Gravitational-wave Catalogue

The Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors have now observed approximately 50 black hole binary mergers, from which we can begin to infer how rapidly astrophysical black holes spin. The LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) analysis of detections up to the end of the first half of the third observing run (O3a)...

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Main Authors: Fairhurst, S. (Author), Hannam, M. (Author), Hoy, C. (Author), Tiwari, V. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing Ltd 2022
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