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Linking high-mass X-ray binaries to binary compact object mergers in Milky Way-like galaxies
Felipe Vivanco Cádiz, M. Celeste Artale, Nicola Masetti +5
High-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) constitute a potential intermediate phase connecting massive stellar binaries to the formation of coalescing binary compact objects (BCOs). Yet, th…
The impact of stellar binaries and star cluster dynamics on pair-instability supernovae
Francesco Gabrielli, Cristiano Ugolini, Lavinia Paiella +12
Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) are among the most luminous transients in the Universe. However, they have never been confidently observed. Solving this puzzle would have key i…
The role of accretion efficiency, natal kicks, and angular momentum transport in the formation of the Gaia black holes
Michela Mapelli, Cecilia Sgalletta, Johanna Müller-Horn +5
Gaia has the potential to deliver several tens of new dormant black holes (BHs) with low-mass stellar companions (hereafter, Gaia BHs) in the upcoming fourth data release. Three Ga…
Optically thick winds of very massive stars suppress intermediate-mass black hole formation
Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli, Lumen Boco +3
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are the link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. Gravitational waves have started unveiling a population of IMBHs in the $\sim…
Reconstructing the origin of black hole mergers using sparse astrophysical models
V. Gayathri, Giuliano Iorio, Hiromichi Tagawa +8
The astrophysical origin of binary black hole mergers discovered by LIGO and Virgo remains uncertain. Efforts to reconstruct the processes that lead to mergers typically rely on ei…
Impact of stellar winds on the pair-instability supernova rate
Filippo Simonato, Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli +4
Very massive stars (VMSs, 100 M) play a crucial role in several astrophysical processes. At low metallicity, they might collapse directly into black ho…
Impact of accretion-induced chemically homogeneous evolution on stellar and compact binary populations
Marco Dall'Amico, Michela Mapelli, Giuliano Iorio +5
In binary star systems, mass transfer can spin up the accretor, possibly leading to efficient chemical mixing and chemically quasi-homogeneous evolution (CHE). Here, we explore the…
The more accurately the metal-dependent star formation rate is modeled, the larger the predicted excess of binary black hole mergers
Cecilia Sgalletta, Michela Mapelli, Lumen Boco +5
As the number of gravitational-wave detections grows, the merger rate of binary black holes (BBHs) can help us to constrain their formation, the properties of their progenitors, an…
Wolf-Rayet -- compact object binaries as progenitors of binary compact objects
Erika Korb, Michela Mapelli, Giuliano Iorio +2
Binaries with a Wolf-Rayet star and a compact object (WR-COs), either a black hole (BH) or a neutron star (NS), have been proposed as possible progenitors for the binary compact ob…
Classifying binary black holes from Population III stars with the Einstein Telescope: A machine-learning approach
Filippo Santoliquido, Ulyana Dupletsa, Jacopo Tissino +7
Third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave detectors such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) will observe binary black hole (BBH) mergers at redshifts up to . However, an uneq…
Impact of gas hardening on the population properties of hierarchical black hole mergers in AGN disks
M. Paola Vaccaro, Michela Mapelli, Carole Périgois +5
Hierarchical black hole (BH) mergers in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are unique among formation channels of binary black holes (BBHs) because they are likely associated with elect…
Binary neutron star populations in the Milky Way
Cecilia Sgalletta, Giuliano Iorio, Michela Mapelli +7
Galactic binary neutron stars (BNSs) are a unique laboratory to probe the evolution of BNSs and their progenitors. Here, we use a new version of the population synthesis code SEVN…
Compact object mergers: exploring uncertainties from stellar and binary evolution with SEVN
Giuliano Iorio, Michela Mapelli, Guglielmo Costa +9
Population-synthesis codes are an unique tool to explore the parameter space of massive binary star evolution and binary compact object (BCO) formation. Most population-synthesis c…
Hierarchical black hole mergers in young, globular and nuclear star clusters: the effect of metallicity, spin and cluster properties
Michela Mapelli, Marco Dall'Amico, Yann Bouffanais +8
We explore hierarchical black hole (BH) mergers in nuclear star clusters (NSCs), globular clusters (GCs) and young star clusters (YSCs), accounting for both original and dynamicall…
New insights on binary black hole formation channels after GWTC-2: young star clusters versus isolated binaries
Yann Bouffanais, Michela Mapelli, Filippo Santoliquido +5
With the recent release of the second gravitational-wave transient catalogue (GWTC-2), which introduced dozens of new detections, we are at a turning point of gravitational wave as…
Constraining accretion efficiency in massive binary stars with LIGO-Virgo black holes
Yann Bouffanais, Michela Mapelli, Filippo Santoliquido +3
The growing sample of LIGO--Virgo black holes (BHs) opens new perspectives for the study of massive binary evolution. Here, we study the impact of mass accretion efficiency and com…
Dynamics of black hole - neutron star binaries in young star clusters
Sara Rastello, Michela Mapelli, Ugo N. Di Carlo +5
Young star clusters are likely the most common birthplace of massive stars across cosmic time and influence the formation of compact binaries in several ways. Here, we simulate the…