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Transitions in the Mass-ratio and Spin Properties of Binary Black Holes in GWTC-5

  • Authors: Elizabeth Flanagan, Fabio Antonini, Thomas Callister, Debatri Chattopadhyay, Fani Dosopoulou, Isobel Romero-Shaw, Jakob Stegmann

Elizabeth Flanagan et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Summary statistics of the inferred effective-spin distributions across the four mass intervals identified from the mass-ratio analysis: m1 < 18 M⊙, 18 < m1/M⊙ < 30, 30 < m1/M⊙ < 50, and m1 > 50 M⊙. Error bars indicate the 90% credible intervals. The upper panel shows the mean, median, and mode of the inferred χeff distributions, while the lower panel shows the corresponding Pearson first skewness coefficient. The latter is computed with respect to the mode of the distribution.

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