Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Gravitational-wave localization alone can probe origin of stellar-mass black hole mergers

  • I. Bartos,
  • Z. Haiman,
  • Z. Marka,
  • B. D. Metzger,
  • N. C. Stone,
  • S. Marka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00851-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Binary black hole mergers have recently been observed through the detection of gravitational wave signatures. The authors demonstrate that their association with active galactic nuclei can be made through a statistical spatial correlation.