Progenitors of gravitational wave mergers: Binary evolution with the stellar grid-based code ComBinE

Abstract

The first gravitational wave detections of mergers between black holes and neutron stars represent a remarkable new regime of high-energy transient astrophysics. The signals observed with LIGO-Virgo detectors come from mergers of extreme physical objects which are the end products of stellar evolution in close binary systems. To better understand their origin and merger rates, we have performed binary population syntheses at different metallicities using the new grid-based binary population synthesis code ComBinE. Starting from newborn pairs of stars, we follow their evolution including mass loss, mass transfer and accretion, common envelopes and supernova explosions. We apply the binding energies of common envelopes based on dense grids of detailed stellar structure models, make use of improved investigations of the subsequent Case BB Roche-lobe overflow and scale supernova kicks according to the stripping of the exploding stars. We demonstrate that all the double black hole mergers, GW150914, LVT151012, GW151226, GW170104, GW170608 and GW170814, as well as the double neutron star merger GW170817, are accounted for in our models in the appropriate metallicity regime. Our binary interaction parameters are calibrated to match the accurately determined properties of Galactic double neutron star systems, and we discuss their masses and types of supernova origin. Using our default values for the input physics parameters, we find a double neutron star merger rate of about 3.0 Myr^-1 for Milky-Way equivalent galaxies. Our upper limit to the merger-rate density of double neutron stars is R=400 yr^-1 Gpc^-3 in the local Universe (z=0).

arXiv comment36 pages, 26 figures, 8 tables, plus 9 pages appendix. Accepted 2018 August 6 by MNRAS after revision according to referee report (in particular, including further discussions on the progenitor binary of GW170817)

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• Populations of evolved massive binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud II: Predictions from rapid binary evolution
• New insights on binary black hole formation channels after GWTC-2: young star clusters versus isolated binaries
• Simulating jets from a neutron star companion hours after a core collapse supernova
• Compact Objects in close orbits as Gravitational Wave Sources: Formation Scenarios and Properties
• The rate of iPTF 14gqr like ultra-stripped supernovae and binary evolution leading to double neutron star formation
• Black Holes merging with Low Mass Gap Objects inside Globular Clusters
• Gravitational wave cosmology and astrophysics with large spectroscopic galaxy surveys
• Analytic approximations for massive close post-mass transfer binary systems
• Scalable stellar evolution forecasting: Deep learning emulation vs. hierarchical nearest neighbor interpolation
• Exploring the nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources across stellar population ages using detailed binary evolution calculations
• Active Learning for Computationally Efficient Distribution of Binary Evolution Simulations
• High mass X-ray binaries as progenitors of gravitational wave sources
• Fast radio burst repeaters produced via Kozai-Lidov feeding of neutron stars in binary systems
• High mass function ellipsoidal variables in the Gaia Focused Product Release: searching for black hole candidates in the binary zoo
• Strong and weak lensing of Gravitational Waves: a semi-analytical approach
• Constraining neutron star radii in black hole-neutron star mergers from their electromagnetic counterparts
• The Formation of Electron-capture Supernovae: A Review
• Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• X-ray emission from helium star+black hole binaries as probes of tidally induced spin-up of second-born black holes
• Formation of the First Two Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers (GW200115 and GW200105) from Isolated Binary Evolution
• Compact object populations over cosmic time II. Compact object merger rates and masses over redshift from varying initial conditions
• A Sea of Black Holes: Characterizing the LISA Signature for Stellar-Origin Black Hole Binaries
• A possible formation scenario of the Gaia ID 3425577610762832384: inner binary merger inside a triple common envelope
• The Large Deficit of HMXB Emission from Luminous Infrared Galaxies: the Case of the Circumnuclear Starburst Ring in NGC 7552
• Imprints of massive black-hole binaries on neighbouring decihertz gravitational-wave sources
• Minutes-delayed jets from a neutron star companion in core collapse supernovae
• Recent LIGO-Virgo discoveries
• Gravitational Waves from Supernova Mass Loss and Natal Kicks in Close Binaries
• The effects of Galactic model uncertainties on LISA observations of double neutron stars
• Local merger rates of double neutron stars
• Detailed Simulations of Massive Hierarchical Triple Star Systems - Exploring the impact of the stellar physics on the evolutionary pathways of massive hierarchical triple systems
• An optimal envelope ejection efficiency for merging neutron stars
• Population synthesis of Thorne-Żytkow objects: Rejuvenated donors and unexplored progenitors in the common envelope formation channel
• Statistical Analysis of Complex Computer Models in Astronomy
• Coaxing the Eclipsing Binary V367 Cygni Out of Its Shell
• Reassessing the Spin of Second-born Black Holes in Coalescing Binary Black Holes and Its Connection to the chi_eff-q Correlation
• Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients as "Failed" Gravitational-wave Sources: Helium Core$-$Black Hole Mergers Following Delayed Dynamical Instability
• Emulators for stellar profiles in binary population modeling
• Population Synthesis of Gravitational Wave Sources
• Detection probability of light compact binary mergers in future observing runs of the current ground-based gravitational wave detector network
• Kilonova rates from spherical and axisymmetrical models
• Challenges in Forming Millisecond Pulsar-Black Holes from Isolated Binaries
• Evolutionary tracks of binary neutron star progenitors across cosmic times
• Compact object populations over cosmic time I. BOSSA: a Binary Object environment-Sensitive Sampling Algorithm
• Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
• Light Curve Models of Convective Common Envelopes
• Adiabatic Mass Loss In Binary Stars. VI. Massive Helium Binary Stars
• A Fundamental Plane in X-ray Binary Activity of External Galaxies
• Estimating Transient Rates from Cosmological Simulations and BPASS
• Identifying Host Galaxies of Binary Black Hole Mergers with Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detector Networks
• Forming Double Neutron Stars using Detailed Binary Evolution Models with POSYDON: Comparison to the Galactic Systems
• Impact of Massive Binary Star and Cosmic Evolution on Gravitational Wave Observations II: Double Compact Object Rates and Properties
• Deep ATCA and VLA radio observations of short-GRB host galaxies. Constraints on star-formation rates, afterglow flux, and kilonova radio flares
• Revisiting constraints on asymmetric dark matter from collapse in white dwarf stars