Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

Scientific Collaboration, LIGO; Collaboration, Virgo

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/abe949

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Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

Published in Research Portal (King's College London) • Jan 1, 2021

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Virgo Collaboration

Abstract

We report on the population of 47 compact binary mergers detected with a false-alarm rate of <1 yr(-1) in the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. We observe several characteristics of the merging binary black hole (BBH) population not discernible until now. First, the primary mas...

Subject

Physics

LIGO

Gravitational wave

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