On the distribution of stellar-sized black hole spins

Black hole spin will have a large impact on searches for gravitational waves with advanced detectors. While only a few stellar mass black hole spins have been measured using X- ray techniques, gravitational wave detectors have the capacity to greatly increase the statistics of black hole spin measur...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2016-05, Vol.716 (1), p.12002
Main Author: Nielsen, Alex B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Black holes
Detectors
Gravitational waves
Physics
Stellar mass
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Summary:Black hole spin will have a large impact on searches for gravitational waves with advanced detectors. While only a few stellar mass black hole spins have been measured using X- ray techniques, gravitational wave detectors have the capacity to greatly increase the statistics of black hole spin measurements. We show what we might learn from these measurements and how the black hole spin values are influenced by their formation channels.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/716/1/012002