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Stellar Expansion or Inflation?
Gautham N. Sabhahit, Jorick S. Vink
While stellar expansion after core-hydrogen exhaustion related to thermal imbalance has been documented for decades, the physical phenomenon of stellar inflation that occurs close…
The Maximum Black Hole Mass at Solar Metallicity
Jorick S. Vink, Gautham N. Sabhahit, Erin R. Higgins
We analyse the current knowledge and uncertainties in detailed stellar evolution and wind modelling to evaluate the mass of the most massive stellar black hole (BH) at solar metall…
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.…