Constraints on high-mass black hole populations from a search incorporating higher harmonics
ORAL
Abstract
Recent advancements in the IAS pipeline, including incorporation of higher gravitational-wave harmonics and enhanced glitch-reduction techniques, have significantly improved its sensitivity to high-mass binary black hole mergers. These upgrades have already led to the discovery of several new high-mass binary black hole mergers. In this talk, I will discuss the resulting constraints on the high-mass black hole population from our new BBH merger catalog. I will also quantify the relative improvement in sensitive volume in different regions of binary parameter space upon including higher harmonics in our search.
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Presenters
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Ajit K Mehta
University of California, Santa Barbara
Authors
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Ajit K Mehta
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Digvijay S Wadekar
Johns Hopkins University
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Javier Roulet
Caltech
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Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Jonathan Mushkin
Weizmann Institute of Science, Weizmann institute of science
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Barak Zackay
Weizmann Institute of Science
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Matias Zaldarriaga
Institute for Advanced Study