Resonant-plane locking and spin alignment in stellar-mass black-hole binaries: a diagnostic of compact-binary formation

Spin precession in stellar-mass black hole binaries encodes information on specific formation mechanisms like tides and mass transfers. My first paper on spin precession…

D. Gerosa, M. Kesden, E. Berti, R. O’Shaughnessy, U. Sperhake.
Physical Review D 87 (2013) 10, 104028. arXiv:1302.4442 [gr-qc].