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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…
The Stellar Merger Scenario for Black Holes in the Pair-instability Gap
M. Renzo, M. Cantiello, B. D. Metzger +1
The recent detection of GW190521 stimulated ideas on how to populate the predicted black hole pair-instability mass gap. One proposed scenario is the dynamical merger of two stars…
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…
Core-Collapse Supernovae in Binaries as the Origin of Galactic Hyper-Runaway Stars
Fraser A. Evans, Mathieu Renzo, Elena Maria Rossi
Several stars detected moving at velocities near to or exceeding the Galactic escape speed likely originated in the Milky Way disc. We quantitatively explore the `binary supernova…
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…
The explosive life of massive binaries
Mathieu Renzo, Emmanouil Zapartas
Massive stars are born predominantly as members of binary (or higher multiplicity) systems, and the presence of a companion can significantly alter their life and final fate. There…
Sensitivity of the lower-edge of the pair instability black hole mass gap to the treatment of time dependent convection
M. Renzo, R. J. Farmer, S. Justham +3
Gravitational-wave detections are now probing the black hole (BH) mass distribution, including the predicted pair-instability mass gap. These data require robust quantitative predi…
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…
Predictions for the hydrogen-free ejecta of pulsational pair-instability supernovae
M. Renzo, R. Farmer, S. Justham +5
Present time-domain astronomy efforts will unveil a variety of rare transients. We focus here on pulsational pair-instability evolution, which can result in signatures observable w…