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On the Likely Dynamical Origin of GW191109 and of Binary Black Hole Mergers with Negative Effective Spin
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With the growing number of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA, several systems have become difficult to explain via isolated binary evolution, having components in the pair-instability mass gap, high orbital eccentricities, and/or spin-orbit misalignment. Here, we focus on GW191109\_010717, a BBH merger with component masses of $65^{+11}_{-11}$ and $47^{+15}_{-13}$ $\rm M_{\odot}$, and effective spin $-0.29^{+0.42}_{-0.31}$, which could imply a spin-orbit misalignment of more than $\pi/2$ radians for at least one of its components. Besides its component masses being in the pair-instability mass gap, we show that isolated binary evolution is unlikely to reproduce the proposed spin-orbit misalignment of GW191109 with high confidence. On the other hand, we demonstrate that BBHs dynamically assembled in dense star clusters would naturally reproduce the spin-orbit misalignment and the masses of GW191109, and the rates of GW191109-like events, if at least one of the components were to be a second-generation BH. Finally, we generalize our results to all the events with a measured negative effective spin, arguing that GW200225 also has a likely dynamical origin.
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