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farr / AlignedVersusIsoSpin

A calculation and paper comparing aligned and isotropic black hole spin models.
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Comment on Selection Effects? #26

Closed farr closed 7 years ago

farr commented 7 years ago

Another minor concern is that the template based searches used by LIGO effectively use priors for the underlying spin distributions, and for the searches finding the three events only spin-aligned templates were used. It would be useful for the reader to briefly comment on whether this can alter the observed spin distribution from the underlying distribution.