GW170817A as a hierarchical black hole merger

Despite the rapidly growing number of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers discovered through gravitational waves, the origin of these binaries is still not known. In galactic centers, black holes can be brought to each others' proximity by dynamical processes, resulting in mergers. It is als...

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Main Authors: Gayathri, V, Bartos, I, Haiman, Z, Klimenko, S, Kocsis, B, Márka, S, Yang, Y
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020