Projects per year
Abstract
GW200115 was the second merger of a black hole and a neutron star confidently detected through gravitational waves. Inference on the signal allows for a large black hole spin misaligned with the orbital angular momentum, but shows little support for aligned spin values. We show that this is a natural consequence of measuring the parameters of a black hole-neutron star binary with nonspinning components while assuming the priors used in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA analysis. We suggest that, a priori, a nonspinning binary is more consistent with current astrophysical understanding.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | L14 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
| Volume | 922 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 20 Nov 2021 |
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Shining gravitational waves on binary astrophysics
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/04/20 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery
Bailes, M., McClelland, D. E., Levin, Y., Blair, D. G., Scott, S. M., Ottaway, D. J., Melatos, A., Veitch, P. J., Wen, L., Shaddock, D. A., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Zhao, C., Evans, R. J., Ju, L., Galloway, D., Thrane, E., Hurley, J. R., Coward, D. M., Cooke, J., Couch, W., Hobbs, G. B., Reitze, D., Rowan, S., Cai, R., Adhikari, R. X., Danzmann, K., Mavalvala, N., Kulkarni, S. R., Kramer, M., Branchesi, M., Gehrels, N., Weinstein, A. J. R., Steeghs, D., Bock, D. & Lasky, P.
Monash University – Internal University Contribution, Monash University – Internal Department Contribution
1/01/17 → 31/03/24
Project: Research