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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 A3.

The evolution of the inferred effective-spin distributions as a function of the transition mass scale ﹩\tilde{m}﹩. Error bars indicate the 90% credible intervals. The top panel shows the inferred mean, median, and mode of the effective spin of the population with ﹩{m}_{1}\lt \tilde{m}﹩. The middle panel shows the inferred mean, median, and mode of the population with ﹩{m}_{1}\gt \tilde{m}﹩, illustrating the progressive shift of the high-mass population toward χeff ≃ 0 and the increasing uncertainty associated with broader spin distributions at large masses. The bottom panel shows the Pearson first skewness coefficient, quantifying the degree of asymmetry of the inferred χeff distributions. While all measurements remain statistically consistent with symmetric distributions, the intermediate-mass regime exhibits tentative evidence for positive skewness associated with the possible excess near χeff ∼ 0.5.

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