Sky marginalization in black hole spectroscopy and tests of the area theorem
Sky marginalization in black hole spectroscopy and tests of the area theorem
Direct observation of gravitational waves from binary black hole (BBH) mergers has made it possible to test the laws of black hole thermodynamics using real astrophysical sources. These tests rely on accurate and unbiased parameter estimates from the pre and postmerger portions of a signal. Due to numerical complications, previous …