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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.

Presenters

  • Ajit K Mehta

    University of California, Santa Barbara

Authors

  • Ajit K Mehta

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Digvijay S Wadekar

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Javier Roulet

    Caltech

  • Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Jonathan Mushkin

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Weizmann institute of science

  • Barak Zackay

    Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Matias Zaldarriaga

    Institute for Advanced Study