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Population Inference Of Non-Spinning Eccentric Binary Black Holes, Muhammad Zeeshan

Theses

Compact binary mergers produce gravitational waves (GWs), which carry information about their sources. The LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA network detects GWs signals, and we use those measurements to infer BBHs population properties such as mass, spin, and eccentricity distribution in the universe. Binary component masses and spins are well-known to provide insight into the source formation, evolution, and environment. Unlike these two, eccentricity is a unique and measurable signature of strongly interacting events. Unfortunately, most available parameter estimation results for GWs signals do not include eccentricity: models for binary merger with eccentricity have minimal availability and parameter coverage. Therefore, to assess how well …