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Impact of Natal Kicks on Merger Rates and Spin–Orbit Misalignments of Black Hole–Neutron Star Mergers

  • Authors: Giacomo Fragione, Abraham Loeb, and Frederic A. Rasio

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 918 L38.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Distribution of tilt angles resulting from natal kicks for merging BH–NS binaries, using all metallicities and α = 1. Different colors represent different values of the natal-kick velocity dispersion σ (see Equation (3)).

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