Exploring Hierarchical Merger Scenarios for GW241011 and GW241110

arXiv:2607.04663 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-06 · Read on arXiv

Lei He, Liang-Gui Zhu, Zheng-Yan Liu, Rui Niu, Chao Wei, Ken Chen, Wen Zhao

astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-07-06

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AGN — 79× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Framework — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — 2× in this paper
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
• GWTC-5.0: Observations from the Second Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run and Updates to the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
• GWTC-5.0: An Introduction to Version 5.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
• A New Forced Photometry Service for the Zwicky Transient Facility
• Searching for Electromagnetic Counterpart Candidates to GW231123
• Mass-Ratio Reversal as an Alternative to Hierarchical Mergers for GW241011
• Recoil kicks from binary black hole mergers in GWTC catalogs: implications for retention and hierarchical mergers
• GW241011 and GW241110: Hints of Hierarchical Mergers from the Merger Entropy Index
• The Hierarchical Merger Scenario for GW231123
• A subpopulation of low-mass, spinning black holes: signatures of dynamical assembly
• AGN-driven BBH mergers: Black hole populations and hierarchical growth across the AGN parameter space

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