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Reanalysis of LIGO black-hole coalescences with alternative prior assumptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2019

Davide Gerosa
Affiliation:
TAPIR 350-17, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA email: [email protected]
Salvatore Vitale
Affiliation:
LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Carl-Johan Haster
Affiliation:
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada
Katerina Chatziioannou
Affiliation:
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada
Aaron Zimmerman
Affiliation:
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada
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Abstract

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We present a critical reanalysis of the black-hole binary coalescences detected during LIGO’s first observing run under different Bayesian prior assumptions. We summarize the main findings of Vitale et al. (2017) and show additional marginalized posterior distributions for some of the binaries’ intrinsic parameters.

These findings were presented at IAU Symposium 338, held on October 16-19, 2017 in Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2019 

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