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astro-ph.GA2024★ 25 cited
Close Encounters of Wide Binaries Induced by the Galactic Tide: Implications for Stellar Mergers and Gravitational-Wave Sources
Jakob Stegmann, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Antti Rantala +6
A substantial fraction of stars can be found in wide binaries with projected separations between and . In the standard lore of binary physics, these would…
astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited
A binary origin for the first isolated stellar-mass black hole detected with astrometric microlensing
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
The Milky Way is believed to host hundreds of millions of quiescent stellar-mass black holes (BHs). In the last decade, some of these objects have been potentially uncovered via gr…