Gravitational Wave Sources and Populations I

Presentations

• What we talk about when we talk about hierarchical mergers: the (lack of) peculiarity of GW241011 and GW241110 in the context of the cluster formation scenario

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Cailin Plunkett

    • MIT

  Authors

  • Cailin Plunkett

    • MIT

  • Thomas Callister

    • Williams College

  • Michael Zevin

    • Adler Planetarium Chicago

  • Salvatore Vitale

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Cosmic Correlations: How Spins, Masses, and Redshifts Shape the Gravitational-Wave Universe

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Chaitanya Khamar

    • University of Toronto

  Authors

  • Chaitanya Khamar

    • University of Toronto

  • Maya Fishbach

    • Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA

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• Comparison of binary compact object merger populations from population-synthesis codes

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Alexandra Guerrero

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Alexandra Guerrero

    • University of Chicago

  • Duncan Maclean

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Katelyn Breivik

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Carl Rodriguez

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Michael Zevin

    • Adler Planetarium Chicago

  • Daniel Holz

    • University of Chicago

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• GWTC-4 Multi Spin: Population Inference Enhanced by Analytical Likelihood Models

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Muhammad Zeeshan

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Meesum Qazalbash

    • Habib University

  • Sophiya Mehra

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Muhammad Zeeshan

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Richard O’Shaughnessy

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

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• Nonparametric perspective on correlations in the gravitational-wave population through GWTC-4 with PixelPop

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: J. Heinzel, M. Mould, S. Alvarez-Lopez, S. Vitale, in prep.

  Presenters

  • Jack Heinzel

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Jack Heinzel

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Matthew Mould

    • LIGO Laboratory, MIT

  • Sofía Álvarez-López

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Salvatore Vitale

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Probing Spin-Orbit Resonances with the Binary Black Hole Population

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04278

  Presenters

  • Andrea Biscoveanu

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Andrea Biscoveanu

    • Princeton University

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• Disentangling spinning and nonspinning binary black hole populations with spin sorting

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: L. Szemraj, A.S. Biscoveanu, Disentangling Non-Spinning and Spinning Binary Black Hole Systems. Submitted to CQG August 2025, arXiv:2507.23663

  Presenters

  • Lillie Szemraj

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Lillie Szemraj

    • Princeton University

  • Andrea Biscoveanu

    • Princeton University

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