Breaking binary formation mechanism degeneracies with gravitational wave clustering

arXiv:2609.09083 · gr-qc, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-08

Comments: 35 pages, 8 figures

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

Terminology

• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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