Constraints on the binary evolution from chirp mass measurements

We estimate the observed distribution of chirp masses of compact object binaries for gravitational-wave detectors. The stellar binary evolution is modeled using the StarTrack population synthesis code. The distribution of the predicted "observed" chirp masses varies with the variation of the different parameters describing stellar binary evolution. We estimate the sensitivity of the observed distribution to the variation of these parameters, and we show which of the parameters can be constrained after observing 20, 100, and 500 compact object mergers. As a general feature of all our models, we find that the population of observed binaries is dominated by the double black hole mergers.