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The Steep Redshift Evolution of the Hierarchical Binary Black Hole Merger Rate May Cause the z-χeff Correlation

  • Authors: Amanda M. Farah, Aditya Vijaykumar, Maya Fishbach

Amanda M. Farah et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Population-level correlations caused by hierarchical mergers. Diagonal panels show the inferred one-dimensional mass, effective spin, and redshift distributions of the main population (violet), 2G+1G subpopulation (green), and combined, or total population (orange). These are marginalized over all other dimensions. Off-diagonal panels show filled contours of the total population in orange, with locations of the main population and subpopulation contributions indicated with unfilled dashed and solid contours, respectively. All two-dimensional contours show hyperposterior-averaged distributions, while the one-dimensional mass and redshift distributions show hyperposterior uncertainty as shaded bands. Correlations can be observed between all parameters shown: the high-mass tail of the population increases with redshift, the effective spin distribution broadens with redshift, and the effective spin distribution modulates with mass.

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