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most citedOne Channel to Rule Them All? Constraining the Origins of Binary Black Holes using Multiple Formation Pathways

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astro-ph.HE2022★ 11 cited

Searching for candidates of coalescing binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in GWTC-3

Ying Qin, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Simone S. Bavera +10

The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced 90 coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) with to date, however, the origin of their formation cha…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

The formation of merging black holes at solar metallicity

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Emmanouil Zapartas +11

The maximum mass of black holes formed in isolated binaries is determined by stellar winds and the interactions between the binary components. We consider for the first time fully…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 18 cited

A Black Hole Kicked At Birth: MAXI J1305-704

Chase Kimball, Sam Imperato, Vicky Kalogera +12

When a compact object is formed in a binary, any mass lost during core collapse will impart a kick on the binary's center of mass. Asymmetries in this mass loss or neutrino emissio…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

Investigating the Lower Mass Gap with Low Mass X-ray Binary Population Synthesis

Jared C. Siegel, Ilia Kiato, Vicky Kalogera +14

Mass measurements from low-mass black hole X-ray binaries (LMXBs) and radio pulsars have been used to identify a gap between the most massive neutron stars (NSs) and the least mass…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 21 cited

X-ray luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries: Studying the signatures of different physical processes using detailed binary evolution calculations

Devina Misra, Konstantinos Kovlakas, Tassos Fragos +11

The ever-expanding observational sample of X-ray binaries (XRBs) makes them excellent laboratories for constraining binary evolution theory. Such constraints can be obtained by stu…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 35 cited

The correlation of field binary black hole mergers and how 3G gravitational-wave detectors can constrain it

Simone S. Bavera, Maya Fishbach, Michael Zevin +2

Understanding the origin of merging binary black holes is currently one of the most pressing quests in astrophysics. We show that if isolated binary evolution dominates the formati…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

Active Learning for Computationally Efficient Distribution of Binary Evolution Simulations

Kyle Akira Rocha, Jeff J. Andrews, Christopher P. L. Berry +13

Binary stars undergo a variety of interactions and evolutionary phases, critical for predicting and explaining observed properties. Binary population synthesis with full stellar-st…

gr-qc2022★ 6 cited

Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Pau Amaro Seoane, Jeff Andrews, Manuel Arca Sedda +156

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address many…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 66 cited

Suspicious Siblings: The Distribution of Mass and Spin Across Component Black Holes in Isolated Binary Evolution

Michael Zevin, Simone S. Bavera

The LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors have uncovered binary black hole systems with definitively nonzero spins, as well as systems with significant spin residing in the m…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 151 cited

POSYDON: A General-Purpose Population Synthesis Code with Detailed Binary-Evolution Simulations

Tassos Fragos, Jeff J. Andrews, Simone S. Bavera +22

Most massive stars are members of a binary or a higher-order stellar systems, where the presence of a binary companion can decisively alter their evolution via binary interactions.…