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    Adhikari, N.; Ando, M.; Asali, Y.; Bartlett, J.; Bobba, F.; Bogaert, G.; Cadonati, L.; Cameron, J.; Cao, H.; Chan, C.; Chen, H. Y.; Cho, H. S.; Christensen, N.; Coughlin, M. W.; Creighton, J. D. E.; Cumming, A.; D’Angelo, B.; Díaz, M. C.; Ducoin, J.-G.; Fazio, M.; Frederick, C.; García-Núñez, C.; Gateley, B.; Giacomazzo, B.; Granata, V.; Grignani, G.; Grimm, S. J.; Hammond, G.; Harry, I. W.; Hellman, F.; Hennig, J.; Holland, N. A.; Hsieh, B-H.; Ide, S.; Idzkowski, B.; Janquart, J.; Karathanasis, C.; Khazanov, E. A.; Kim, J.; Kinley-Hanlon, M.; Kumar, P.; Lee, H. M.; Leonardi, M.; Lopez, D.; Loriette, V.; Martinez, M.; Martinovic, K.; Massinger, T. J.; Matas, A.; Matichard, F.; Mavalvala, N.; Mendell, G.; Miller, B.; Milotti, E.; Mistry, T.; Molina, I.; Munch, J.; Nagar, A.; Napolano, V.; Nishizawa, A.; Oh, K.; Oh, S. H.; Ooi, C.; Otabe, S.; Paoli, A.; Park, H.; Raab, F. J.; Rapol, U. D.; Renzini, A.; Rollins, J. G.; Ruggi, P.; Sago, N.; Sakellariadou, M.; Salafia, O. S.; Sayah, S.; Shawhan, P.; Shikauchi, M.; Smith, J. R.; Somala, S. N.; Suresh, J.; Tagoshi, H.; Takeda, H.; Tanaka, Kazuyuki; Tanaka, Takahiro; Tanner, D. B.; Martín, E. N. Tapia San; Taranto, C.; Tsai, D.; Tsubono, K.; Tsukada, L.; Uchikata, N.; Vargas, A. F.; Verkindt, D.; Veske, D.; Vinet, J.-Y.; Vitale, S.; Whittle, C.; Williams, M. J.; Wong, I. C. F.; Yamamoto, Kazuhiro

    Physical review. X, 03/2023, Letnik: 13, Številka: 1
    Journal Article, Web Resource

    We report on the population properties of 76 compact binary mergers detected with gravitational waves below a false alarm rate of 1 per year through GWTC-3. The catalog contains three classes of binary mergers: BBH, BNS, and NSBH mergers. We infer the BNS merger rate to be between 10 $\rm{Gpc^{-3} yr^{-1}}$ and 1700 $\rm{Gpc^{-3} yr^{-1}}$ and the NSBH merger rate to be between 7.8 $\rm{Gpc^{-3}\, yr^{-1}}$ and 140 $\rm{Gpc^{-3} yr^{-1}}$ , assuming a constant rate density versus comoving volume and taking the union of 90% credible intervals for methods used in this work. Accounting for the BBH merger rate to evolve with redshift, we find the BBH merger rate to be between 17.9 $\rm{Gpc^{-3}\, yr^{-1}}$ and 44 $\rm{Gpc^{-3}\, yr^{-1}}$ at a fiducial redshift (z=0.2). We obtain a broad neutron star mass distribution extending from $1.2^{+0.1}_{-0.2} M_\odot$ to $2.0^{+0.3}_{-0.3} M_\odot$. We can confidently identify a rapid decrease in merger rate versus component mass between neutron star-like masses and black-hole-like masses, but there is no evidence that the merger rate increases again before 10 $M_\odot$. We also find the BBH mass distribution has localized over- and under-densities relative to a power law distribution. While we continue to find the mass distribution of a binary's more massive component strongly decreases as a function of primary mass, we observe no evidence of a strongly suppressed merger rate above $\sim 60 M_\odot$. The rate of BBH mergers is observed to increase with redshift at a rate proportional to $(1+z)^{\kappa}$ with $\kappa = 2.9^{+1.7}_{-1.8}$ for $z\lesssim 1$. Observed black hole spins are small, with half of spin magnitudes below $\chi_i \simeq 0.25$. We observe evidence of negative aligned spins in the population, and an increase in spin magnitude for systems with more unequal mass ratio.