You Can't Always Get What You Want: The Impact of Prior Assumptions on Interpreting GW190412

© 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. GW190412 is the first observation of a black hole binary with definitively unequal masses. GW190412's mass asymmetry, along with the measured positive effective inspiral spin, allowed for inference of a component black hole spin: t...

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Main Authors: Zevin, M, Berry, CPL, Coughlin, S, Chatziioannou, K, Vitale, S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132597