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most citedFormation of the first three gravitational-wave observations through isolated binary evolution

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astro-ph.SR2020★ 74 cited

Chemically Homogeneous Evolution: A rapid population synthesis approach

Jeff Riley, Ilya Mandel, Pablo Marchant +5

We explore chemically homogeneous evolution (CHE) as a formation channel for massive merging binary black holes (BBHs). We develop methods to include CHE in a rapid binary populati…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 220 cited

Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory: A kilohertz-band gravitational-wave detector in the global network

K. Ackley, V. B. Adya, P. Agrawal +160

Gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars encode information about nuclear matter at extreme densities, inaccessible by laboratory experiments. The late inspiral is influen…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 95 cited

Be X-ray binaries in the SMC as indicators of mass transfer efficiency

Serena Vinciguerra, Coenraad J. Neijssel, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez +7

Be X-ray binaries (BeXRBs) consist of rapidly rotating Be stars with neutron star companions accreting from the circumstellar emission disk. We compare the observed population of B…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 67 cited

Luminous Red Novae: population models and future prospects

George Howitt, Simon Stevenson, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez +5

A class of optical transients known as Luminous Red Novae (LRNe) have recently been associated with mass ejections from binary stars undergoing common-envelope evolution. We use th…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 61 cited

Common-Envelope Episodes that lead to Double Neutron Star formation

Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Morgan MacLeod, Coenraad J. Neijssel +6

Close double neutron stars have been observed as Galactic radio pulsars, while their mergers have been detected as gamma-ray bursts and gravitational-wave sources. They are believe…