3 papers
astro-ph.SR2025
Good things always come in 3s: trimodality in the binary black-hole chirp-mass distribution supports bimodal black-hole formation
Reinhold Willcox, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Eva Laplace +7
The latest GWTC-4 release from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration nearly doubles the known population of double compact object mergers and reveals a new trimodal structure in…
astro-ph.SR2024
Modeling contact binaries, III. Properties of a population of close, massive binaries
Matthias Fabry, Pablo Marchant, Norbert Langer +1
Among massive stars, binary interaction is the rule rather than the exception. The closest binaries, those with periods of less than about 10 days, undergo mass transfer during cor…
astro-ph.SR2024
X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive Stars at Low Metallicity
Jorick S. Vink, Paul Crowther, Alex Fullerton +20
The Hubble Space Telescope has devoted 500 orbits to observing 250 massive stars with low metallicity in the ultraviolet (UV) range within the framework of the ULLYSES program. The…