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Fast Radio Bursts from White Dwarf Binary Mergers: Isolated and Triple-Induced Channels
Cheyanne Shariat, Claire S. Ye, Smadar Naoz +1
The detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in both young and old stellar populations suggests multiple formation pathways, beyond just young magnetars from core-collapse supernovae.…
Is GW231123 a hierarchical merger?
Lachlan Passenger, Sharan Banagiri, Eric Thrane +4
The binary black hole merger GW231123 is both the most massive gravitational-wave event observed and has the highest component spins measured to date. The dimensionless spins of th…
Mass Distribution of Binary Black Hole Mergers from Young and Old Dense Star Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Maya Fishbach, Kyle Kremer +1
Dense star clusters are thought to contribute significantly to the merger rates of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. We combine…
Gravitational-wave kicks impact spins of black holes from hierarchical mergers
Angela Borchers, Claire S. Ye, Maya Fishbach
One proposed black hole formation channel involves hierarchical mergers, where black holes form through repeated binary mergers. Previous studies have shown that such black holes f…
Predicting the rate of fast radio bursts in globular clusters from binary black hole observations
Aryamann Rao, Claire S. Ye, Maya Fishbach
The repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source in an old globular cluster (GC) in M81 proves that FRBs, which are typically associated with young magnetars, can also occur in old stel…
Investigating cannibalistic millisecond pulsar binaries using MESA: New constraints from pulsar spin and mass evolution
Devina Misra, Manuel Linares, Claire S. Ye
Compact binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with orbital periods d are key to understanding binary evolution involving massive neutron stars (NSs). Due to the ablation of…
Lower-mass-gap Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Kyle Kremer, Scott M. Ransom +1
The existence of compact stellar remnants in the mass range has long been debated. This so-called lower mass gap was initially suggested by the lack of low-mass X-…
The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution from Dense Star Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Maya Fishbach
Gravitational-wave detectors are unveiling a population of binary black hole (BBH) mergers out to redshifts , and are starting to constrain how the BBH population evol…
Single Millisecond Pulsars from Dynamical Interaction Processes in Dense Star Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Kyle Kremer, Scott M. Ransom +1
Globular clusters (GCs) are particularly efficient at forming millisecond pulsars. Among these pulsars, about half lack a companion star, a significantly higher fraction than in th…
On the Tidal Capture of White Dwarfs by Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Dense Stellar Environments
Claire S. Ye, Giacomo Fragione, Rosalba Perna
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes, widely believed to reside in at least some dense star clusters, but no…
Millisecond Pulsars in Dense Star Clusters: Evolution, Scaling Relations, and the Galactic-Center Gamma-ray Excess
Claire S. Ye, Giacomo Fragione
The number of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) observed in Milky Way globular clusters has increased explosively in recent years, but the underlying population is still uncertain due to…
Formation of Low-mass Black Holes and Single Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters
Kyle Kremer, Claire S. Ye, Fulya Kıroğlu +3
Close encounters between neutron stars and main-sequence stars occur in globular clusters and may lead to various outcomes. Here we study encounters resulting in tidal disruption o…
Compact Object Modeling in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
Claire S. Ye, Kyle Kremer, Carl L. Rodriguez +5
The globular cluster 47~Tucanae (47~Tuc) is one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way and is exceptionally rich in exotic stellar populations. For several decades it h…
The Observed Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers can be Entirely Explained by Globular Clusters
Carl L. Rodriguez, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee +5
Since the first signal in 2015, the gravitational-wave detections of merging binary black holes (BBHs) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations (LVC) have completely transformed our un…
Intermediate-mass Black Holes from High Massive-star Binary Fractions in Young Star Clusters
Elena González, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee +5
Black holes formed in dense star clusters, where dynamical interactions are frequent, may have fundamentally different properties than those formed through isolated stellar evoluti…
Fast Optical Transients from Stellar-Mass Black Hole Tidal Disruption Events in Young Star Clusters
Kyle Kremer, Wenbin Lu, Anthony L. Piro +3
Observational evidence suggests that the majority of stars may have been born in stellar clusters or associations. Within these dense environments, dynamical interactions lead to h…
Populating the upper black hole mass gap through stellar collisions in young star clusters
Kyle Kremer, Mario Spera, Devin Becker +6
Theoretical modeling of massive stars predicts a gap in the black hole (BH) mass function above for BHs formed through single star evolution, arising from (…
GW190412 as a Third-Generation Black Hole Merger from a Super Star Cluster
Carl L. Rodriguez, Kyle Kremer, Michael Y. Grudić +8
We explore the possibility that GW190412, a binary black hole merger with a non-equal-mass ratio and significantly spinning primary, was formed through repeated black hole mergers…
COSMIC Variance in Binary Population Synthesis
Katelyn Breivik, Scott Coughlin, Michael Zevin +8
The formation and evolution of binary stars is a critical component of several fields in astronomy. The most numerous sources for gravitational wave observatories are inspiraling a…
Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond with the Cluster Catalog
Kyle Kremer, Claire S. Ye, Nicholas Z. Rui +6
We present a set of 148 independent -body simulations of globular clusters (GCs) computed using the code (). At an age of $\sim10-13…
On the Rate of Neutron Star Binary Mergers from Globular Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Wen-fai Fong, Kyle Kremer +4
The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star - neutron star (NS-NS) merger, GW170817, and the increasing number of observations of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs)…
The Optical Afterglow of GW170817: An Off-axis Structured Jet and Deep Constraints on a Globular Cluster Origin
Wen-fai Fong, P. K. Blanchard, K. D. Alexander +25
We present a revised and complete optical afterglow light curve of the binary neutron star merger GW170817, enabled by deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) F606W observations at $\app…
Black Holes: The Next Generation -- Repeated Mergers in Dense Star Clusters and their Gravitational-Wave Properties
Carl L. Rodriguez, Michael Zevin, Pau Amaro-Seoane +4
When two black holes merge in a dense star cluster, they form a new black hole with a well-defined mass and spin. If that "second-generation" black hole remains in the cluster, it…
Millisecond Pulsars and Black Holes in Globular Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee +2
Over a hundred millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) have been observed in globular clusters (GCs), motivating theoretical studies of the formation and evolution of these sources throug…