Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function
(2021)
Journal Article
Baxter, E. J., Croon, D., McDermott, S. D., & Sakstein, J. (2021). Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 916(2), Article L16. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac11fc
We introduce a novel black hole mass function that realistically models the physics of pair-instability supernovae with a minimal number of parameters. Applying this to all events in the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 2 (GWTC-2), we... Read More about Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function.