5 papers
Formation of rotating supergiants via stellar mergers in dense clusters: Implications for black hole natal spins
Ishaan Satish, Kyle Kremer, Fulya KıroÄlu +2
We investigate how massive stellar mergers in young star clusters imprint on black hole spin distributions and the broader implications for gravitational wave sources. The central…
Red vs. Blue: How metallicity shapes black hole dynamics and mergers in dense star clusters
Saloni Agrawal, Kyle Kremer, Michael Zevin +6
Dense star clusters are a well-established environment for the formation of gravitational wave sources through dynamical interactions. Recent LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) events such as…
Getting Tilted: Random Walk of Binary Black Hole Spin-Orbit Alignment in Dense Star Clusters
Maia A. S. Martinez, Christopher E. O'Connor, Fulya KıroÄlu +1
It is commonly assumed that the spin-orbit angles of binary black holes (BBHs) originating from dense stellar environments rapidly converge to an isotropic distribution following a…
Black hole mergers from dense star clusters with realistic binary populations
Christopher E. O'Connor, Kyle Kremer, Saloni Agrawal +5
We present a suite of 24 full-lifetime simulations of dense star clusters with the Cluster Monte Carlo (CMC) code, featuring updated input physics and a realistic distribution of i…
Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters. II. Clusters May Eat Their Own Tails
Newlin C. Weatherford, Frederic A. Rasio, Sourav Chatterjee +3
We apply for the first time the Monte Carlo star cluster modeling method to study tidal tail and stellar stream formation from globular clusters, assuming a circular orbit in a smo…