Gravitational Wave Sources and Populations III

Presentations

• Mixture modeling with PixelPop and parametric methods for GW population inference on GWTC-4

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 10:30 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:42 AM

  Publication: 1. Alvarez-Lopez, S., Heinzel, J., Mould, M., Vitale, S. Mixture modeling with PixelPop and parametric methods for GW population inference on GWTC-4 (in prep.)

  Presenters

  • Sofía Álvarez-López

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Sofía Álvarez-López

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jack Heinzel

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Matthew Mould

    • LIGO Laboratory, MIT

  • Salvatore Vitale

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Probing Tidal Spin-Up in Aligned Spin Binary Black Holes

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 10:42 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Isha Anantpurkar

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Isha Anantpurkar

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Reexamining Evidence of a Pair-Instability Mass Gap in the Binary Black Hole Population.

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 10:54 AM – March 19, 2026, 11:06 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18867

  Presenters

  • Anarya Ray

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Anarya Ray

    • Northwestern University

  • Vicky Kalogera

    • Northwestern University

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• To peak or not to peak: Impacts of using analytical star formation histories on binary black hole masses

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 11:06 AM – March 19, 2026, 11:18 AM

  Presenters

  • Sasha Levina

    • UC San Diego

  Authors

  • Sasha Levina

    • UC San Diego

  • Floor Suzan Broekgaarden

    • Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Emanuele Berti

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Lieke van son

    • Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Amedeo Romagnolo

    • UC San Diego

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 19, 2026, 11:18 AM – March 19, 2026, 11:30 AM

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• Population-level effects due to mismodeling and degeneracy at the single-event level

  ORAL

  March 19, 2026, 11:30 AM – March 19, 2026, 11:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Caroline Bright Owen

    • Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

  Authors

  • Caroline Bright Owen

    • Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

  • Davide Gerosa

    • University of Milano-Bicocca

  • Alexandre Toubiana

    • Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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