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Self-lensing flares from black hole binaries V: systematic searches in LSST
Kevin Park, Zoltan Haiman, Chengcheng Xin +3
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has now seen first light, and over a 10 year duration, LSST is projected to catalogue tens of millions of quasars, many of which are expected to be as…
Reconstructing the origin of black hole mergers using sparse astrophysical models
V. Gayathri, Giuliano Iorio, Hiromichi Tagawa +8
The astrophysical origin of binary black hole mergers discovered by LIGO and Virgo remains uncertain. Efforts to reconstruct the processes that lead to mergers typically rely on ei…
Triples as Links between Binary Black Hole Mergers, their Electromagnetic Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes
Smadar Naoz, Zoltan Haiman, Eliot Quataert +1
We propose a formation pathway linking black holes (BHs) observed in gravitational-wave (GW) mergers, wide BH-stellar systems uncovered by Gaia, and accreting low-mass X-ray binari…
Accretion is All You Need: Black Hole Spin Alignment in Merger GW231123 Indicates Accretion Pathway
Imre Bartos, Zoltan Haiman
GW231123 represents the most massive binary-black-hole merger detected to date, lying firmly within, or even above, the pair-instability mass gap. The component spins are both exce…
What Determines the Maximum Mass of AGN-assisted Black Hole Mergers?
LingQin Xue, Hiromichi Tagawa, Zoltan Haiman +1
The origin of merging binary black holes detected through gravitational waves remains a fundamental question in astrophysics. While stellar evolution imposes an upper mass limit of…
Testing compact massive black hole binary candidates through multi-epoch spectroscopy
Lorenzo Bertassi, Erika Sottocorno, Fabio Rigamonti +4
Emission from two massive black holes (MBHs) bound in a close binary is expected to be modulated by different processes, such as the Doppler boost due to the orbital motion, accret…
Thermal X-ray signatures in late-stage unequal-mass massive black hole binary mergers
Luke Major Krauth, Jordy Davelaar, Zoltán Haiman +3
The multi-messenger combination of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) and the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart from the surrounding circumbi…