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Pair-instability evolution and explosions in massive stars
M. Renzo, N. Smith
Very massive stars are radiation pressure dominated. Before running out of viable nuclear fuel, they can reach a thermodynamic state where electron-positron pair-production robs th…
Pulsational pair-instability supernovae in gravitational-wave and electromagnetic transients
D. D. Hendriks, L. A. C. van Son, M. Renzo +2
Current observations of binary black-hole ({BBH}) merger events show support for a feature in the primary BH-mass distribution at , previously interpr…
No peaks without valleys: The stable mass transfer channel for gravitational-wave sources in light of the neutron star-black hole mass gap
L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, M. Renzo +6
Gravitational-wave (GW) detections are starting to reveal features in the mass distribution of double compact objects. The lower end of the black hole (BH) mass distribution is esp…
Resolving The Peak Of The Black Hole Mass Spectrum
Ebraheem Farag, Mathieu Renzo, Robert Farmer +2
Gravitational wave (GW) detections of binary black hole (BH) mergers have begun to sample the cosmic BH mass distribution. The evolution of single stellar cores predicts a gap in t…
SNR G292.0+1.8: A Remnant of a Low-Mass Progenitor Stripped-Envelope Supernova
Tea Temim, Patrick Slane, John C. Raymond +5
We present a study of the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G292.0+1.8, a classic example of a core-collapse SNR that contains oxygen-rich ejecta, circumstellar material, a rapidly…
"Super-Kilonovae" from Massive Collapsars as Signatures of Black-Hole Birth in the Pair-instability Mass Gap
Daniel M. Siegel, Aman Agarwal, Jennifer Barnes +3
The core collapse of rapidly rotating massive ~10 Msun stars ("collapsars"), and resulting formation of hyper-accreting black holes, are a leading model for the central engines of…
The redshift evolution of the binary black hole merger rate: a weighty matter
L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, T. Callister +7
Gravitational wave detectors are starting to reveal the redshift evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) merger rate, . We make predictions for $R_{\mathrm{BB…
Confirming NGC 6231 as the parent cluster of the runaway high-mass X-ray binary HD 153919/4U 1700-37 with Gaia DR2
Vincent van der Meij, Difeng Guo, Lex Kaper +1
A significant fraction of the most massive stars move through space with a high velocity. One of the possible physical explanations is that a supernova in a compact binary system r…
Revisiting the explodability of single massive star progenitors of stripped-envelope supernovae
E. Zapartas, M. Renzo, T. Fragos +12
Stripped-envelope supernovae (Types IIb, Ib, and Ic) that show little or no hydrogen comprise roughly one-third of the observed explosions of massive stars. Their origin and the ev…
Periodic Fast Radio Bursts from Luminous X-ray Binaries
Navin Sridhar, Brian D. Metzger, Paz Beniamini +4
The discovery of periodicity in the arrival times of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) poses a challenge to the oft-studied magnetar scenarios. However, models that postulate that FRBs…
State of the field: Binary black hole natal kicks and prospects for isolated field formation after GWTC-2
T. A. Callister, W. M. Farr, M. Renzo
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's newly-released GWTC-2 catalog of gravitational-wave detections offers unprecedented information about the spin magnitudes and orientations of mer…
Successful Common Envelope Ejection and Binary Neutron Star Formation in 3D Hydrodynamics
Jamie A. P. Law-Smith, Rosa Wallace Everson, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +10
A binary neutron star merger has been observed in a multi-messenger detection of gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation. Binary neutron stars that merge within…
Constraints from gravitational wave detections of binary black hole mergers on the rate
Robert Farmer, Mathieu Renzo, Selma de Mink +2
Gravitational wave detections are starting to allow us to probe the physical processes in the evolution of very massive stars through the imprints they leave on their final remnant…
Polluting the pair-instability mass gap for binary black holes through super-Eddington accretion in isolated binaries
L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, F. S. Broekgaarden +6
The theory for single stellar evolution predicts a gap in the mass distribution of black holes (BHs) between approximately 45-130M, the so-called "pair-instability mass g…
Effect of binary evolution on the inferred initial and final core masses of hydrogen-rich, Type~II supernova progenitors
Emmanouil Zapartas, Selma E. de Mink, Stephen Justham +3
The majority of massive stars, the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae (SNe), are found in close binary systems. Zapartas et al. (2019) modeled the fraction of hydrogen-rich, T…
The diverse lives of progenitors of hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernovae: the role of binary interaction
Emmanouil Zapartas, Selma E. de Mink, Stephen Justham +7
Hydrogen-rich supernovae, known as Type II (SNe II), are the most common class of explosions observed following the collapse of the core of massive stars. We use analytical estimat…
Pulsational pair-instability supernovae in very close binaries
Pablo Marchant, Mathieu Renzo, Robert Farmer +4
Pair-instability and pulsational pair-instability supernovae (PPISN) have not been unambiguously observed so far. They are, however, promising candidates for the progenitors of the…
Host galaxies of SNe Ic-BL with and without long gamma-ray bursts
J. Japelj, S. D. Vergani, R. Salvaterra +5
Broad-line Ic supernovae (SNe Ic-BL) are a very rare class of core-collapse supernovae exhibiting high ejecta velocities and high kinetic energies. They are the only type of SNe th…
Predicting the Presence of Companions for Stripped-Envelope Supernovae: The Case of the Broad-Lined Type Ic SN 2002ap
E. Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, S. D. Van Dyk +10
Many young, massive stars are found in close binaries. Using population synthesis simulations we predict the likelihood of a companion star being present when these massive stars e…
Delay-time distribution of core-collapse supernovae with late events resulting from binary interaction
E. Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, R. G. Izzard +8
Most massive stars, the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae, are in close binary systems and may interact with their companion through mass transfer or merging. We undertake a…
Numerical Modeling of the Early Light Curves of Type IIP Supernovae
Viktoriya Morozova, Anthony L. Piro, Mathieu Renzo +1
The early rise of Type IIP supernovae (SN IIP) provides important information for constraining the properties of their progenitors. This can in turn be compared to pre-explosion im…
Light Curves of Core-Collapse Supernovae with Substantial Mass Loss using the New Open-Source SuperNova Explosion Code (SNEC)
V. Morozova, A. L. Piro, M. Renzo +5
We present the SuperNova Explosion Code (SNEC), an open-source Lagrangian code for the hydrodynamics and equilibrium-diffusion radiation transport in the expanding envelopes of sup…