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Constraints on the progenitor and explosion of SN 2024ggi in harmony with pre-explosion detection and hydrodynamic simulations
Amar Aryan, Erin Higgins, Matt Nicholl +2
Supernova (SN) 2024ggi is a nearby Type II SN discovered by ATLAS, showing early flash-ionization features. The pre-explosion images reveal a red supergiant (RSG) progenitor with a…
Predicting the Heaviest Black Holes below the Pair Instability Gap
Ethan R. J. Winch, Jorick S. Vink, Erin R. Higgins +1
Traditionally, the pair instability (PI) mass gap is located between 50\,and 130\,, with stellar mass black holes (BHs) expected to "pile up" towards the lower PI edge.…
Maximum Black Hole mass across Cosmic Time
Jorick S. Vink, Erin R. Higgins, Andreas A. C. Sander +1
At the end of its life, a very massive star is expected to collapse into a black hole. The recent detection of an 85 Msun black hole from the gravitational wave event GW 190521 app…