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farr / AlignedVersusIsoSpin

A calculation and paper comparing aligned and isotropic black hole spin models.
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GW151226 a > 0.2 @ 99% confidence #13

Closed SimonStevenson closed 7 years ago

SimonStevenson commented 7 years ago

Via Christopher

I was just looking at https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0141/P1700067/003/AlignedIsotropicGW.pdf Line 95 should be 99% credible level

SimonStevenson commented 7 years ago

Fixed in commit 9b3ea5ee181342e7c81fe1b4aeb04e104c86a99c

"We find that at least one black hole has a spin magnitude greater than 0.2 at the 99% credible level." from https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103