3 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.GA2024
MAGICS II. Seed black holes stripped of their surrounding stars do not sink
Yihao Zhou, Diptajyoti Mukherjee, Nianyi Chen +7
MBH seed mergers are expected to be among the loudest sources of gravitational waves detected by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), providing a unique window into the b…
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…