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Decoding the final state in binary black hole mergers
By James Healy, Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker
Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity 31, Number 21, 212001 (Monday, July 21, 2014)

Abstract

We demonstrate that in binary black hole mergers there is a direct correlation between the frequency of the gravitational wave at peak amplitude and the mass and spin of the final black hole. This correlation could potentially assist with the analysis of gravitational wave observations from binary black hole mergers.