The GW-Universe Toolbox II: constraining the binary black hole population with second and third generation detectors

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We employ the method used by the GW-Universe Toolbox to generate a synthetic catalogue of detection of stellar mass binary black hole (BBH) mergers.

• We study advanced LIGO (aLIGO) and Einstein Telescope (ET) as two representatives for the 2nd and 3rd generation GW observatories, and study how GW observations of BBHs can be used to constrain the merger rate as function of redshift and masses.
• We also simulate the observations from a detector that is half as sensitive as the ET at design which represents an early phase of ET.
• Two methods are used to obtain the constraints on the source population properties from the catalogues: 1.