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The Binary Black Hole Merger Rate Deviates from the Cosmic Star Formation Rate: A Tug of War between Metallicity and Delay Times

  • Authors: Adam P. Boesky, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger

Adam P. Boesky et al 2024 The Astrophysical Journal 976 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

BBH merger rate as a function of redshift compared to toy models assuming a scaled SFRD with a constant delay time of 20 Myr (top row) and a delay time distribution of d n/d t ∝ 1/t with a minimum delay time of 20 Myr (bottom row). Labels and colors are the same as in Figure 1.

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