# Black holes in the low-mass gap: Implications for gravitational-wave observations

@article{Gupta2020BlackHI,
title={Black holes in the low-mass gap: Implications for gravitational-wave observations},
author={Anuradha Gupta and Davide Gerosa and K. G. Arun and Emanuele Berti and Will M. Farr and Bangalore Sathyaprakash},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={2020},
volume={101},
pages={103036}
}
• Published 12 September 2019
• Physics
• Physical Review D
Binary neutron-star mergers will predominantly produce black-hole remnants of mass ∼ 3 – 4     M ⊙ , thus populating the putative low-mass gap between neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes. If these low-mass black holes are in dense astrophysical environments, mass segregation could lead to “second-generation” compact binaries merging within a Hubble time. In this paper, we investigate possible signatures of such low-mass compact binary mergers in gravitational-wave observations. We show…

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