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most citedPopulating the upper black hole mass gap through stellar collisions in young star clusters

146 citations · 350 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.GA2024

MAGICS III. Seeds sink swiftly: nuclear star clusters dramatically accelerate seed black hole mergers

Diptajyoti Mukherjee, Yihao Zhou, Nianyi Chen +2

Merger rate predictions of Massive Black Hole (MBH) seeds from large-scale cosmological simulations differ widely, with recent studies highlighting the challenge of low-mass MBH se…

astro-ph.HE2024

The cosmic rate of Pair-Instability Supernovae

Francesco Gabrielli, Andrea Lapi, Lumen Boco +8

Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) have crucial implications for many astrophysical topics, including the search for very massive stars, the black hole mass spectrum, and galaxy c…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 31 cited

GW190521 formation via three-body encounters in young massive star clusters

Marco Dall'Amico, Michela Mapelli, Ugo N. Di Carlo +5

GW190521 is the most massive binary black hole (BBH) merger observed to date, and its primary component lies in the pair-instability (PI) mass gap. Here, we investigate the formati…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 146 cited

Populating the upper black hole mass gap through stellar collisions in young star clusters

Kyle Kremer, Mario Spera, Devin Becker +6

Theoretical modeling of massive stars predicts a gap in the black hole (BH) mass function above for BHs formed through single star evolution, arising from (…

gr-qc2019★ 105 cited

Gravitational-wave detection rates for compact binaries formed in isolation: LIGO/Virgo O3 and beyond

Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Davide Gerosa +4

Using simulations performed with the population synthesis code MOBSE, we compute the merger rate densities and detection rates of compact binary mergers formed in isolation for sec…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 68 cited

Constraining the fraction of binary black holes formed in isolation and young star clusters with gravitational-wave data

Yann Bouffanais, Michela Mapelli, Davide Gerosa +4

Ten binary black-hole mergers have already been detected during the first two observing runs of advanced LIGO and Virgo, and many more are expected to be observed in the near futur…