5 papers
Mass-Ratio Reversal as an Alternative to Hierarchical Mergers for GW241011
Rui-Chong Hu, Ying Qin, Bing Zhang
Recent gravitational-wave (GW) observations have revealed binary black hole (BBH) mergers with both extreme mass ratios and large effective spin parameters (). GW241…
Reassessing the Spin of Second-born Black Holes in Coalescing Binary Black Holes and Its Connection to the chi_eff-q Correlation
Zi-Yuan Wang, Ying Qin, Rui-Chong Hu +3
The mass ratio q and effective inspiral spin chi_eff of binary black hole (BBH) mergers in GWTC-4.0 show a weaker anti-correlation than in GWTC-3.0, motivating investigation of its…
Event Rate Density and Luminosity Function of Newborn-Magnetar-Driven X-Ray Transients from Neutron Star Binary Mergers
Le Zou, Ji-Gui Cheng, Rui-Chong Hu +2
X-ray transients (XTs) driven by newborn magnetars from mergers of neutron star binaries (NSBs) were occasionally detected in the narrow-field {\it Chandra} Deep Field-South survey…
Origin of Black Hole Spin in Lower-Mass-Gap Black Hole-Neutron Star Binaries
Ying Qin, Zhen-Han-Tao Wang, Georges Meynet +8
During the fourth observing run, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reported the detection of a coalescing compact binary (GW230529181500) with component masses estimated at…
Stable Case BB/BC Mass Transfer to Form GW190425-like Massive Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Ying Qin, Jin-Ping Zhu, Georges Meynet +14
On April 25th, 2019, the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration discovered a Gravitational-wave (GW) signal from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger, i.e., GW190425. Due to the inferred large tot…