Constraining the black hole mass spectrum with gravitational wave observations - I. the error kernel

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 401, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2706-2714

  Plowman, Joseph E ^a   Jacobs, Daniel C ^a   Hellings, Ronald W ^a   Larson, Shane L ^b   Tsuruta, Sachiko ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Early Universe; Gravitational waves; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BLACK HOLES; ERRORS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERGING; STARS;

BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; EARLY UNIVERSE; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES; HIGH-REDSHIFT; HOLE POPULATIONS; INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLES; LASER INTERFEROMETER SPACE ANTENNA; METHODS:STATISTICAL; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 74549218295     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15853.x     Document Type: Article

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