Parameter Estimation Bias From Overlapping Binary Black Hole Events In Second Generation Interferometers

Understand

Since the initial detection of Gravitational Waves in 2015, 50 candidate events have been reported by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration.

• As the current generation of detectors move towards their design sensitivity the rate of these detections will increase.
• The next generation of detectors are likely to have high enough sensitivities that multiple merging binaries will be visible at the same time.
• In this paper we show that this is likely to happen before the end of the decade, with the move to the LIGO-Voyager detector.