Research theme 02

Black-hole populations

What gravitational-wave catalogues reveal about how binary black holes form, including distinct subpopulations at different masses.

28 papers

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2026
Hostbusters: constraining H₀ and binary formation channels through gravitational-wave host galaxy associations

Cross-Parkin, Magaña Hernandez, Palmese, Lasky & Thrane
- Submitted to ApJ
- arXiv:2610.25866
2026
Fortifying gravitational-wave population inference with normalizing flows

Adamcewicz (group member), McDougall, Lasky & Thrane
- PRD 114, 043057
- arXiv:2606.14229
2026
Revealing Four Subpopulations of Binary Black-Hole Mergers with the Fifth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

Guttman (group member), Lasky & Thrane
- Submitted
- arXiv:2607.22011
2026
Evidence for Three Subpopulations of Merging Binary Black Holes at Different Primary Masses

Banagiri (group member), Thrane & Lasky
- PRL 137, 021403
- Editor’s choice
- arXiv:2509.15646
2026
A universal framework to identify eccentric binary mergers: GW200105 case study

Clarke, Romero-Shaw, Hoy, Stegmann, Lasky & Thrane
- Submitted
- arXiv:2605.18742
2026
Is GW231123 a Hierarchical Merger?

Passenger (group member), Banagiri (group member), Thrane, Lasky, Borchers, Fishbach & Ye
- ApJ 999, 236
- arXiv:2510.14363
2026
Trends in the Population of Binary Black Holes Following the Fourth Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog: A Data-driven Analysis

Guttman (group member), Payne, Lasky & Thrane
- ApJ 996, 144
- arXiv:2509.09876
2025
Do Both Black Holes Spin in Merging Binaries? Evidence from GWTC-4 and Astrophysical Implications

Adamcewicz (group member), Guttman (group member), Lasky & Thrane
- ApJ 994, 261
- arXiv:2509.04706
2025
GW231123: extreme spins or microglitches?

Ray, Banagiri (group member), Thrane & Lasky
- Submitted
- arXiv:2510.07228
2024
Are all models wrong? Falsifying binary formation models in gravitational-wave astronomy using exceptional events

Passenger (group member), Thrane, Lasky, Payne, Stevenson & Farr
- MNRAS 535, 2837
- arXiv:2405.09739
2024
No Evidence for a Dip in the Binary Black Hole Mass Spectrum

Adamcewicz (group member), Lasky, Thrane & Mandel
- ApJ 975, 253
- arXiv:2406.11111
2024
Which Black Hole Is Spinning? Probing the Origin of Black Hole Spin with Gravitational Waves

Adamcewicz (group member), Galaudage, Lasky & Thrane
- ApJ Letters 964, L6
- arXiv:2311.05182

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2023
Evidence for a Correlation between Binary Black Hole Mass Ratio and Black Hole Spins

Adamcewicz (group member), Lasky & Thrane
- ApJ 958, 13
- arXiv:2307.15278
2022
Four Eccentric Mergers Increase the Evidence that LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Binary Black Holes Form Dynamically

Romero-Shaw, Lasky & Thrane
- ApJ 940, 171
- arXiv:2206.14695
2022
Gravitational-wave inference for eccentric binaries: the argument of periapsis

Clarke, Romero-Shaw, Lasky & Thrane
- MNRAS 517, 3778
- arXiv:2206.14006
2022
A Rosetta Stone for Eccentric Gravitational Waveform Models

Knee, Romero-Shaw, Lasky, McIver & Thrane
- ApJ 936, 172
- arXiv:2207.14346
2022
The Imprint of Superradiance on Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers

Payne, Sun, Kremer, Lasky & Thrane
- ApJ 931, 79
- arXiv:2107.11730
2021
Implications of Eccentric Observations on Binary Black Hole Formation Channels

Zevin, Romero-Shaw, Kremer, Thrane & Lasky
- ApJ Letters 921, L43
- arXiv:2106.09042
2021
Signs of Eccentricity in Two Gravitational-wave Signals May Indicate a Subpopulation of Dynamically Assembled Binary Black Holes

Romero-Shaw, Lasky & Thrane
- ApJ Letters 921, L31
- arXiv:2108.01284
2021
Gravitational waves as a probe of globular cluster formation and evolution

Romero-Shaw, Kremer, Lasky, Thrane & Samsing
- MNRAS 506, 2362
- arXiv:2011.14541
2021
Temperature dependent appearance of exotic matter makes nascent neutron stars spin faster

Hernandez-Vivanco, Lasky, Thrane, Smith, Chatterjee, Banik, Motta & Thomas
- arXiv preprint
- arXiv:2101.04782
2020
Searching for anisotropy in the distribution of binary black hole mergers

Payne, Banagiri (group member), Lasky & Thrane
- PRD 102, 102004
- arXiv:2006.11957
2020
GW190521: Orbital Eccentricity and Signatures of Dynamical Formation in a Binary Black Hole Merger Signal

Romero-Shaw, Lasky, Thrane & Calderón Bustillo
- ApJ Letters 903, L5
- arXiv:2009.04771
2019
Searching for eccentricity: signatures of dynamical formation in the first gravitational-wave transient catalogue of LIGO and Virgo

Romero-Shaw, Lasky & Thrane
- MNRAS 490, 5210
- arXiv:1909.05466
2019
Tracking continuous gravitational waves from a neutron star at once and twice the spin frequency with a hidden Markov model

Sun, Melatos & Lasky
- PRD 99, 123010
- arXiv:1903.03866
2018
Measuring eccentricity in binary black hole inspirals with gravitational waves

Lower, Thrane, Lasky & Smith
- PRD 98, 083028
- arXiv:1806.05350
2018
Inferring the population properties of binary neutron stars with gravitational-wave measurements of spin

Zhu, Thrane, Osłowski, Levin & Lasky
- PRD 98, 043002
- arXiv:1711.09226
2015
Persistent crust-core spin lag in neutron stars

Glampedakis & Lasky
- MNRAS 450, 1638
- arXiv:1501.05473