no code implementations • 3 Dec 2020 • Dimitrios Psaltis, Colm Talbot, Ethan Payne, Ilya Mandel
In General Relativity, the spacetimes of black holes have three fundamental properties: (i) they are the same, to lowest order in spin, as the metrics of stellar objects; (ii) they are independent of mass, when expressed in geometric units; and (iii) they are described by the Kerr metric.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
1 code implementation • 2 Dec 2020 • Colm Talbot, Eric Thrane
The currently used method leaves $10-50\%$ of the interesting black hole spin models inaccessible; our new method can probe $>99\%$ of the models and has a lower uncertainty for $>80\%$ of the models.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
1 code implementation • 9 Jun 2020 • Colm Talbot, Eric Thrane
In order to perform increasingly precise astrophysical inference and model selection, it will be essential to account for this uncertainty.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2 code implementations • 8 Jan 2018 • Colm Talbot, Eric Thrane
Gravitational-wave detections have revealed a previously unknown population of stellar mass black holes with masses above $20\, M_{\odot}$.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2 code implementations • 26 Apr 2017 • Colm Talbot, Eric Thrane
We present a framework in which observations of black hole mergers can be used to measure ensemble properties of black hole spin such as the typical black hole spin misalignment.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
