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Fig. 17.

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Detection-weighted BH-BH merger total intrinsic (not redshifted) mass for models with different assumptions on wind mass loss and common envelope development: M50.B (weak stellar winds and optimistic CE), M50.B (weak stellar winds and pessimistic CE), M30.B (strong stellar winds and pessimistic CE). For comparison, we also show LIGO/Virgo O1/O2 mean total mass estimates and their 90% confidence limits. We note that although no model seems to reproduce the observed LIGO/Virgo BH-BH total mass distribution, we can expect that some interplay of several parameters (winds, CE, PPSN, Z(z)) may, in the future, possibly reproduce the shape of the observed distribution. For example, stronger PPSN and higher Z(z) (not shown here) will tend to shift the highest BH masses to lower values. This calls for further parameter study calculations.

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