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most citedFormation of Double Neutron Star Systems

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astro-ph.HE2026

A binary merger product as the direct progenitor of a Type II-P supernova

Zexi Niu, Ning-Chen Sun, Emmanouil Zapartas +16

Type II-P supernovae (SNe II-P) are the most common class of core-collapse SNe in the local Universe and play critical roles in many aspects of astrophysics. Since decades ago theo…

astro-ph.HE2025

HST Deep Upper Limits Rule Out a Surviving Massive Binary Companion to the Type Ic Supernova 2012fh

Benjamin F. Williams, Emmanouil Zapartas, Ori D. Fox +19

Current explanations of the mass-loss mechanism for stripped-envelope supernovae remain divided between single and binary progenitor systems. Here we obtain deep ultraviolet (UV) i…

astro-ph.SR2025

The power of binaries on stripped-envelope supernovae across metallicity: uniform progenitor parameter space and persistently low ejecta masses, but subtype diversity

D. Souropanis, E. Zapartas, T. Pessi +9

Stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe) originate from massive stars that lose their envelopes through binary interactions or stellar winds. The connection between SESN subtypes and t…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 11 cited

The Demographics of Binary Companions to Stripped-Envelope Supernovae: Confronting Observations with Population Synthesis

E. Zapartas, O. D. Fox, J. Su +15

Stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe) mark the deaths of massive stars without hydrogen-rich envelopes. Most SESNe likely originate from binary systems where a companion stripped th…

astro-ph.SR2025

Forming Double Neutron Stars using Detailed Binary Evolution Models with POSYDON: Comparison to the Galactic Systems

Abhishek Chattaraj, Jeff J. Andrews, Simone S. Bavera +14

With over two dozen detections in the Milky Way, double neutron stars (DNSs) provide a unique window into massive binary evolution. We use the POSYDON binary population synthesis c…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 11 cited

Populations of evolved massive binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud II: Predictions from rapid binary evolution

C. Schürmann, X. -T. Xu, N. Langer +10

Massive star evolution plays a crucial role in astrophysics but bares large uncertainties. This problem becomes more severe by the majority of massive stars being born in close bin…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

A new long gamma-ray burst formation pathway at solar metallicity

M. M. Briel, T. Fragos, O. S. Salafia +11

Context. Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are generally observed in low-metallicity environments. However, 10 to 20 per cent of LGRBs at redshift are associated with near-solar…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Challenges in Forming Millisecond Pulsar-Black Holes from Isolated Binaries

Camille Liotine, Vicky Kalogera, Jeff J. Andrews +12

Binaries harboring a millisecond pulsar (MSP) and a black hole (BH) are a key observing target for current and upcoming pulsar surveys. We model the formation and evolution of such…

astro-ph.SR2024

Mass Transfer in Eccentric Orbits with Self-consistent Stellar Evolution

Kyle Akira Rocha, Rachel Hur, Vicky Kalogera +12

We investigate Roche lobe overflow mass transfer (MT) in eccentric binary systems between stars and compact objects (COs), modeling the coupled evolution of both the star and the o…

astro-ph.SR2024

Irregularly Sampled Time Series Interpolation for Detailed Binary Evolution Simulations

Philipp M. Srivastava, Ugur Demir, Aggelos Katsaggelos +14

Modeling of large populations of binary stellar systems is an intergral part of a many areas of astrophysics, from radio pulsars and supernovae to X-ray binaries, gamma-ray bursts,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

POSYDON Version 2: Population Synthesis with Detailed Binary-Evolution Simulations across a Cosmological Range of Metallicities

Jeff J. Andrews, Simone S. Bavera, Max Briel +21

Whether considering rare astrophysical events on cosmological scales or unresolved stellar populations, accurate models must account for the integrated contribution from the entire…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 15 cited

The Formation of Black Holes in Non-interacting, Isolated Binaries. Gaia Black Holes as Calibrators of Stellar Winds From Massive Stars

Matthias U. Kruckow, Jeff J. Andrews, Tassos Fragos +10

Context. The black holes discovered using Gaia, especially Gaia BH1 and BH2, have low mass companions of solar-like metallicity in wide orbits. For standard isolated binary evoluti…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 23 cited

The effect of mass loss in models of red supergiants in the Small Magellanic Cloud

E. Zapartas, S. de Wit, K. Antoniadis +16

The rate and mechanism of mass loss of red supergiants (RSGs) remain poorly understood, especially at low metallicities. Motivated by the new empirical prescription by Yang et al.…

astro-ph.HE2024

Mass-gap Black Holes in Coalescing Neutron Star Black Hole Binaries

Zepei Xing, Vicky Kalogera, Tassos Fragos +10

The existence of a mass gap of between the heaviest neutron stars (NSs) and the lightest black holes (BHs), inferred from the BH mass distribution in low mass X-ra…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 3 cited

Emulators for stellar profiles in binary population modeling

Elizabeth Teng, Ugur Demir, Zoheyr Doctor +14

Knowledge about the internal physical structure of stars is crucial to understanding their evolution. The novel binary population synthesis code POSYDON includes a module for inter…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Formation of Wind-Fed Black Hole High-mass X-ray Binaries: The Role of Roche-lobe-Overflow Post Black-Hole Formation

Zepei Xing, Tassos Fragos, Emmanouil Zapartas +12

The three dynamically confirmed wind-fed black hole high-mass X-ray binaries (BH-HMXBs) are suggested to all contain a highly spinning black hole (BH). However, based on the theori…

astro-ph.HE2024

GWnext 2024: Meeting Summary

Alejandro Torres-Orjuela, Veronica Vazquez-Aceves, Rui Xu +19

GWnext 2024 was a meeting held in the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University in March , 2024. In the meeting researchers at…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

From ZAMS to Merger: Detailed Binary Evolution Models of Coalescing Neutron Star-Black Hole Systems at Solar Metallicity

Zepei Xing, Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos +10

Neutron star black hole (NSBH) merger events bring us new opportunities to constrain theories of stellar and binary evolution, and understand the nature of compact objects. In…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 27 cited

SCATTER: A New Common Envelope Formalism

Rosanne Di Stefano, Matthias U. Kruckow, Yan Gao +2

One of the most mysterious astrophysical states is the common envelope (CE) phase of binary evolution, in which two stars are enshrouded by the envelope shed by one of them. Intera…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

The formation of merging black holes at solar metallicity

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Emmanouil Zapartas +11

The maximum mass of black holes formed in isolated binaries is determined by stellar winds and the interactions between the binary components. We consider for the first time fully…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 62 cited

Can neutron star mergers alone explain the r-process enrichment of the Milky Way?

Chiaki Kobayashi, Ilya Mandel, Krzysztof Belczynski +9

Comparing Galactic chemical evolution models to the observed elemental abundances in the Milky Way, we show that neutron star mergers can be a leading r-process site only if at low…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 44 cited

The Common Envelope Evolution Outcome -- A Case Study on Hot Subdwarf B Stars

Hongwei Ge, Christopher A Tout, Xuefei Chen +6

Common envelope evolution (CEE) physics plays a fundamental role in the formation of binary systems, such as mergering stellar gravitational wave sources, pulsar binaries and type…

astro-ph.SR2021

Unexpected correlations in outstanding subpopulations of the gravitational wave transient catalogue data

Matthias U. Kruckow, Zhanwen Han

With the third observing run the number of gravitational wave emitting events has increased significantly. The data of the recorded events is inspected to search for overall proper…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Properties and applications of a predicted population of runaway He-sdO/B stars ejected from single degenerate He-donor SNe

P. Neunteufel, H. Preece, M. Kruckow +4

This study builds on previous works, producing the most extensive prediction of the properties of such a hypothetical population to date, taking into account both Chandrasekhar and…