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Remnant Black Hole Kicks and Implications for Hierarchical Mergers

  • Authors: Parthapratim Mahapatra, Anuradha Gupta, Marc Favata, K. G. Arun, and B. S. Sathyaprakash

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 918 L31.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Distribution of retention probability, with and without population weighted samples, computed from all the informative events in GWTC-2 as a function of the escape speed of the star cluster Vesc. The solid lines with markers show the median values while the shaded regions show the 90% credible intervals of the distributions. These curves are obtained without any assumptions about the cluster type or properties (besides being characterized by a single value, Vesc).

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