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most citedGreat Balls of FIRE III: Modeling Black Hole Mergers from Massive Star Clusters in Simulations of Galaxies

10 citations · 16 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A 13 Year Black Hole Microlensing Survey in Omega Centauri

Zack Freeman, Maximilian Häberle, Anil Seth +11

Star clusters are born with massive stars that leave behind a large population of stellar mass black holes. These black holes may account for a large fraction of binary black hole…

astro-ph.HE2026

Identity Crisis: Untangling Mass-Ordering Artifacts from Compact-Object Pairing in Gravitational-Wave Populations

Soumendra Kishore Roy, Asad Hussain, L. A. C. van Son +3

Mass distributions of binary black hole mergers inferred from gravitational-wave observations offer clues to how binaries form. These distributions conventionally label the heavier…

astro-ph.HE2026

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 valuable tools for investigating the end-to-end lives of binary stars as well as a myriad of observed astrophysical phenomena. Many ``ra…

astro-ph.HE2026

Twin Peaks: Resolving Features in the Binary Black Hole Mass Function with COSMIC-METISSE

Duncan B. Maclean, Poojan Agrawal, Katelyn Breivik +4

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

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 pre…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Great Balls of FIRE IV. The contribution of massive star clusters to the astrophysical population of merging binary black holes

Tristan Bruel, Astrid Lamberts, Carl L. Rodriguez +3

The detection of over a hundred gravitational wave signals from double compacts objects have confirmed the existence of such binaries with tight orbits. Two main formation channels…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

From Young Massive Clusters to Old Globular Clusters: Density Profile Evolution and IMBH Formation

Kuldeep Sharma, Carl L. Rodriguez

The surface brightness profiles of globular clusters are conventionally described with the well-known King profile. However, observations of young massive clusters (YMCs) in the lo…

astro-ph.SR2023

Stellar Black Holes and Compact Stellar Remnants

Guglielmo Costa, Martyna Chruślińska, Jakub Klencki +4

The recent observations of gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration (LVK) have provided a new opportunity for studying our Universe. By detecting several mer…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Great Balls of FIRE III: Modeling Black Hole Mergers from Massive Star Clusters in Simulations of Galaxies

Tristan Bruel, Carl L. Rodriguez, Astrid Lamberts +3

After the nearly hundred gravitational-wave detections reported by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, the question of the cosmological origin of merging binary black holes (BBHs)…