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Eccentricity in Gravitational-Wave Transients
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posted on 2022-02-16, 06:17 authored by ISOBEL MARGUARETHE ROMERO-SHAWSince 2015, almost 100 colliding pairs of black holes and neutron stars have been detected by the Advanced LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. This thesis investigates how these pairs formed by measuring the shapes of their orbits.