Vijaykumar, Aditya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4103-0666
Farah, Amanda M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6121-0285
Fishbach, Maya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1980-5293
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN-2023- 05511)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (568580)
National Science Foundation (PHY-2309135)
Article Title: The Maximum Mass Ratio of Hierarchical Binary Black Hole Mergers May Cause the q – χ eff Correlation
Journal Title: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Article Type: paper
Copyright Information: © 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Publication dates
Date Received: 2026-01-21
Date Accepted: 2026-02-19
Online publication date: 2026-03-05