8 papers
When the stars don't align: Investigating inconsistencies in binary black hole formation across population synthesis codes
Alexandra G. Guerrero, Michael Zevin, Duncan B. Maclean +4
Binary population synthesis (BPS) codes are extremely useful tools for investigating both the end-to-end lives of binary stars as well as a myriad of astrophysical phenomena observ…
Twin Peaks: Resolving Features in the Binary Black Hole Mass Function with COSMIC-METISSE
Duncan B. Maclean, Poojan Agrawal, Katelyn Breivik +5
Gravitational waves from inspiraling binary black holes (BBHs) provide insights into the lives and deaths of massive stars. Population synthesis allows us to model these binaries t…
A Long Period Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binary in Centauri
Matthew Whitaker, Evan Kerr, Anil Seth +16
Modern simulations of stellar dynamics in globular clusters peg a dominant role for stellar-mass black holes, but direct evidence for black holes in clusters remains limited. We pr…
Breaking Down the : Toward Modeling and Understanding Globular Cluster Stellar Streams in a Fully Cosmological Context
Nondh Panithanpaisal, Robyn E. Sanderson, Carl L. Rodriguez +7
Next-generation surveys are expected to uncover thousands of globular cluster (GC) stellar streams, motivating the need for a theoretical framework that produces realistic GC strea…
Growing the Intermediate-mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri
Elena González Prieto, Carl L. Rodriguez, Tomás Cabrera
The recent detection of fast-moving stars in the core of Omega Centauri ( Cen), the most massive globular cluster (GC) in the Milky Way, has provided strong evidence for the pr…
Realistic predictions for Gaia black hole discoveries: comparison of isolated binary and dynamical formation models
Pranav Nagarajan, Kareem El-Badry, Chirag Chawla +6
Astrometry from Gaia has enabled discovery of three dormant black holes (BHs) in au-scale binaries. Numerous models have been proposed to explain their formation, including several…