Confusing Head-On Collisions with Precessing Intermediate-Mass Binary Black Hole Mergers

Bustillo, JC; Sanchis-Gual, N; Torres-Forne, A; Font, JA

Bustillo, JC (corresponding author), Univ Santiago Compostela, Inst Galego Fis Altas Enerxias, Santiago De Compostela 15782, Galicia, Spain.; Bustillo, JC (corresponding author), Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Phys, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.; Bustillo, JC (corresponding author), Monash Univ, Monash Ctr Astrophys, Sch Phys & Astron, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia.; Bustillo, JC (corresponding author), OzGrav ARC Ctr Excellence Gravitat Wave Discovery, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia.

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2021; 126 (20):

Abstract

We report a degeneracy between the gravitational-wave signals from quasicircular precessing black-hole mergers and those from extremely eccentric merg......

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