What we are Learning from the Population of Detected Binary Black Hole Mergers

Presentations

• The properties of binary black holes observed by LIGO and Virgo

  ORAL

  April 13, 2019, 10:45 AM – April 13, 2019, 10:57 AM

  Presenters

  • Christopher P L Berry

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Christopher P L Berry

    • Northwestern University

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• Rates of Compact Binary Mergers from LIGO-Virgo's First and Second Observing Runs

  ORAL

  April 13, 2019, 10:57 AM – April 13, 2019, 11:09 AM

  Presenters

  • Shasvath J Kapadia

    • University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  Authors

  • Shasvath J Kapadia

    • University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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• Using Gravitational Waves to Observe the Black Hole Mass Gap due to Pair-Instability Supernovae

  ORAL

  April 13, 2019, 11:09 AM – April 13, 2019, 11:21 AM

  Presenters

  • Daniel Finstad

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Daniel Finstad

    • Syracuse University

  • Christopher M Biwer

    • Syracuse University, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Laura K. Nuttall

    • University of Portsmouth

  • Duncan A. Brown

    • Syracuse University

  • Chris Fryer

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Characterization of low-significance gravitational-wave compact binary sources

  ORAL

  April 13, 2019, 11:21 AM – April 13, 2019, 11:33 AM

  Presenters

  • Yiwen Huang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Yiwen Huang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Hannah Middleton

    • University of Melbourne

  • Ken K. Y. Ng

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Salvatore Vitale

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • John Veitch

    • University of Glasgow

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• Measurement of sub-dominant harmonic modes for gravitational-wave emission from a population of binary black holes

  ORAL

  April 13, 2019, 11:33 AM – April 13, 2019, 11:45 AM

  Presenters

  • Brendan D O'Brien

    • University of Florida

  Authors

  • Brendan D O'Brien

    • University of Florida

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• Binary Black Hole gravitational waveform reconstruction with minimal morphological assumptions

  ORAL

  April 13, 2019, 11:45 AM – April 13, 2019, 11:57 AM

  Presenters

  • Sudarshan Ghonge

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Sudarshan Ghonge

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • James Alexander Clark

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Katerina Chatziioannou

    • University of Toronto
    • Simons Foundation
    • Flatiron Institute

  • Laura Cadonati

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Impact of higher-modes and merger modeling for GW150914 & GW170104

  ORAL

  April 13, 2019, 11:57 AM – April 13, 2019, 12:09 PM

  Presenters

  • Prayush Kumar

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Prayush Kumar

    • Cornell University

  • Jonathan Blackman

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Scott E Field

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Mark A Scheel

    • Caltech
    • California Institute of Technology

  • Chad Galley

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  • Michael Boyle

    • Cornell University

  • Lawrence E Kidder

    • Cornell University

  • Harald P Pfeiffer

    • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
    • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

  • Bela Szilagyi

    • California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Saul A Teukolsky

    • Cornell University, Caltech
    • Cornell University
    • Cornell University, California Institute of Technology

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• The impact of higher modes for GW170729

  ORAL

  April 13, 2019, 12:09 PM – April 13, 2019, 12:21 PM

  Presenters

  • Jacob A Lange

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Jacob A Lange

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Juan Calderón Bustillo

    • Monash University

  • Katerina Chatziioannou

    • University of Toronto
    • Simons Foundation
    • Flatiron Institute

  • Roberto Cotesta

    • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

  • Sudarshan Ghonge

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Sebastian Khan

    • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

  • Michael Pürrer

    • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

  • Salvatore Vitale

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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