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astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Formation of Fast-spinning Neutron Stars in Close Binaries and Magnetar-driven Stripped-envelope Supernovae

Rui-Chong Hu, Jin-Ping Zhu, Ying Qin +8

Extreme stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe), including Type Ic superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), broad-line Type Ic SNe (SNe Ic-BL), and fast blue optical transients (FBOTs), ar…

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★ 16 cited

A possible 250-second X-ray quasi-periodicity in the fast blue optical transient AT2018cow

Wenjie Zhang, Xinwen Shu, Jin-Hong Chen +11

The fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) are a new population of extragalactic transients of unclear physical origin. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed including failed su…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 43 cited

Potential Subpopulations and Assembling Tendency of the Merging Black Holes

Yuan-Zhu Wang, Yin-Jie Li, Jorick S. Vink +4

The origins of coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) detected by the advanced LIGO/Virgo are still under debate, and clues may be present in the joint mass-spin distribution of thes…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 48 cited

Long-duration Gamma-ray Burst and Associated Kilonova Emission from Fast-spinning Black Hole--Neutron Star Mergers

Jin-Ping Zhu, Xiangyu Ivy Wang, Hui Sun +5

Here we collect three unique bursts, GRBs\,060614, 211211A and 211227A, all characterized by a long-duration main emission (ME) phase and a rebrightening extended emission (EE) pha…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 19 cited

Hypercritical Accretion for Black Hole High Spin in Cygnus X-1

Ying Qin, Xinwen Shu, Shuangxi Yi +1

Recent observations of AdLIGO and Virgo have shown that the spin measurements in binary black hole (BH) systems are typically small, which is consistent with the predictions by the…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 30 cited

A Channel to Form Fast-spinning Black Hole--Neutron Star Binary Mergers as Multi-messenger Sources

Rui-Chong Hu, Jin-Ping Zhu, Ying Qin +3

After the successful detection of a gravitational-wave (GW) signal and its associated electromagnetic (EM) counterparts from GW170817, neutron star--black hole (NSBH) mergers have…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 31 cited

Population Properties of Gravitational-Wave Neutron Star--Black Hole Mergers

Jin-Ping Zhu, Shichao Wu, Ying Qin +3

Over the course of the third observing run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, several gravitational-wave (GW) neutron star--black hole (NSBH) candidates have been announced. By ass…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 7 cited

Constraining the circumburst medium of gamma-ray bursts with X-ray afterglows

Xiao Tian, Ying Qin, Mei Du +2

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are considered to be originated from core collapse of massive stars. It is believed that the afterglow property is determined by the density of the mat…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 9 cited

Mass and effective spin distributions of binary black hole events: Evidence for a population of hierarchical black hole mergers in active galactic nuclei disks

Yuan-Zhu Wang, Yi-Zhong Fan, Shao-Peng Tang +2

The origins of the coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) detected by the advanced LIGO/Virgo are still in debate and clues may present in the mass and effective spin ()…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

On the Angular Momentum Transport Efficiency within the Star Constrained from Gravitational-wave Observations

Ying Qin, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Dong-Hong Wu +2

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (LVC) have recently reported in GWTC-2.1 eight additional candidate events with a probability of astrophysical origin grea…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 41 cited

Probing the progenitors of spinning binary black-hole mergers with long gamma-ray bursts

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Emmanouil Zapartas +15

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be associated with the core-collapse of massive, rapidly spinning stars and the formation of black holes. However, efficient angular m…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 35 cited

The role of core-collapse physics in the observability of black-hole neutron-star mergers as multi-messenger sources

Jaime Román-Garza, Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos +10

Recent detailed 1D core-collapse simulations have brought new insights on the final fate of massive stars, which are in contrast to commonly used parametric prescriptions. In this…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 156 cited

The impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of field binary black hole populations

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Michael Zevin +13

We study the impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of binary black hole populations formed through isolated binary evolution. We investigate the impact of ma…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 254 cited

The origin of spin in binary black holes: Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Ying Qin +7

We study the formation of coalescing binary black holes via the evolution of isolated field binaries that go through the common envelope phase in order to obtain the combined distr…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 37 cited

Spectral and temporal analysis of the joint Swift/BAT-Fermi/GBM GRB sample

Francisco Virgili, Ying Qin, Bing Zhang +1

Using the gamma-ray bursts simultaneously detected by Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM we performed a joint spectral and temporal analysis of the prompt emission data and confirm the rough…