Erratum: Building Better Spin Models for Merging Binary Black Holes: Evidence for Nonspinning and Rapidly Spinning Nearly Aligned Subpopulations (Astrophysical Journal Letters (2021) 921 (L15) DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac2f3c)

Abstract

The results in the published version have changed following corrections to our analysis. A bug in our implementation resulted in the prior for the nonspinning submodel being four times larger than it should have been for each event, which incorrectly favored the nonspinning interpretation. Fixing this bug shifts the fraction of binary black holes that are not spinning to lower values (λ0 = 0.54-0.25+0.21 at 90% credibility) and reduces the minimum cosine of the spin tilt angle for the spinning black holes (zmin =-0.27-0.45-0.49 at 90% credibility). The preference for the EXTENDED model over the DEFAULT model is reduced but is still significant (log 3.55 10(β) ∼ or β ∼ 3500; see Table 2). The main conclusions of the publication remain unchanged. (Figure Presented). © 2022 The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.