Consistent 0.3 --> 0.2 for "small" spins

farr / AlignedVersusIsoSpin

A calculation and paper comparing aligned and isotropic black hole spin models.

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Consistent 0.3 --> 0.2 for "small" spins #52

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farr commented 7 years ago

From Simon:

"If spins are intrinsically very small, with a \lessim􏰋 0.3, then it is no longer possible to resolve the negative effective spin with a small number of observations (see Methods Section 5)."