# The impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of field binary black hole populations

@article{Bavera2020TheIO,
title={The impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of field binary black hole populations},
author={Simone S. Bavera and Tassos Fragos and Michael Zevin and Christopher P. L. Berry and Pablo Marchant and Jeff J. Andrews and Scott Coughlin and Aaron Dotter and Konstantinos Kovlakas and Devina Misra and Juan Gabriel Serra-Perez and Ying Qin and Kyle A. Rocha and Jaime Rom'an-Garza and Nam Tran and Emmanouil Zapartas},
journal={arXiv: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena},
year={2020}
}
• Published 30 October 2020
• Physics
• arXiv: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
We study the impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of binary black hole populations formed through isolated binary evolution. We investigate the impact of mass-accretion efficiency onto compact objects and common-envelope efficiency on the observed distributions of $\chi_{eff}$, $M_{chirp}$ and $q$. We find that low common envelope efficiency translates to tighter orbits post common envelope and therefore more tidally spun up second-born black holes. However, these…

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