On the incompatibility of mass-ratio-spin correlation and IID component spins
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- LIGO-T2500277-v2
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- T - Technical notes
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- Abstract:
- A correlation between spin and mass ratio is a feature of the population of merging compact binaries that has been identified at high statistical significance. Here we note that such a feature is incompatible with the common assumption of independently and identically distributed component spin vectors. It is also incompatible with a relaxed assumption of component spin distributions that are different, but both independent of the mass ratio.
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