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Dynamical formation of dormant black holes: Predictions for Gaia DR4
Daniel Marín Pina, Michela Mapelli, Giuliano Iorio +1
Dormant black holes (dormant BHs, i.e., X-ray quiet binaries comprising a BH and a companion star) are probes of the effect of cluster dynamics and binary stellar evolution on comp…
Shaping binary black hole merger efficiency with gravitational wave observations
Michele Bosi, Lumen Boco, Stefano Torniamenti +5
Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy offers unprecedented insights into binary black hole (BBH) coalescence. However, many of the key quantities involved remain inaccessible to direct…
StAGE: Stellar Archaeology-driven Galaxy Evolution II. Binary Black Hole Mergers in Quiescent Galaxies and their Star-forming Progenitors
Irene Iorio, Andrea Lapi, Lumen Boco +5
We apply StAGE, a data-driven galaxy-evolution framework based on stellar archaeology, to study binary black hole (BBH) mergers in quiescent galaxies (QGs) and their star-forming p…
Exploring the connection between Fast Radio Bursts and binary neutron star mergers
Barbara Patricelli, Maria Grazia Bernardini, Cecilia Sgalletta +1
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic radio sources whose duration is of the order of milliseconds. The physical origin of these sources is still unknown. Many models sugge…
A binary black hole merger rate comparison within the same metallicity-star formation rate framework
Lumen Boco, Michele Bosi, Cecilia Sgalletta +2
Recent studies have suggested that binary population synthesis models, when coupled with observationally based, metallicity-dependent SFRD, overpredict the observed local BBH merge…
Can current models predict the local black hole merger rate?
Lumen Boco, Michele Bosi, Cecilia Sgalletta +2
After four observational runs, the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra collaboration estimated a local binary black hole (BBH) merger rate density of $R_{0,\textrm{LVK}}\simeq 14-26\,\textrm{Gpc}^{-3…
The impact of envelope binding energies on the merger rate density of binary compact objects
Cecilia Sgalletta, Guglielmo Costa, Giuliano Iorio +8
The common envelope (CE) phase plays a key role in the formation of binary compact object systems. Its final outcome strongly depends on the envelope binding energy, but this quant…
Population synthesis of Be X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Angular momentum recycling and stable mass transfer
Víctor López Oller, Boyuan Liu, Michela Mapelli +5
Be X-ray binaries (BeXRBs) are key laboratories to constrain binary interaction processes such as mass transfer, angular-momentum transport, and natal kicks. The Small Magellanic C…
The role of accretion efficiency, natal kicks, and angular momentum transport in the formation of the Gaia black holes
Michela Mapelli, Cecilia Sgalletta, Johanna Müller-Horn +5
Gaia has the potential to deliver several tens of new dormant black holes (BHs) with low-mass stellar companions (hereafter, Gaia BHs) in the upcoming fourth data release. Three Ga…
Enhanced Mass Loss of Very Massive Stars: Impact on the Evolution, Binary Processes, and Remnant Mass Spectrum
Kendall G. Shepherd, Guglielmo Costa, Cristiano Ugolini +7
Very massive stars (VMS) play a fundamental role in astrophysics due to their winds and supernovae (SN), and their role as massive black hole (BH) progenitors. However, their origi…
Impact of stellar winds on the pair-instability supernova rate
Filippo Simonato, Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli +4
Very massive stars (VMSs, 100 M) play a crucial role in several astrophysical processes. At low metallicity, they might collapse directly into black ho…
Impact of accretion-induced chemically homogeneous evolution on stellar and compact binary populations
Marco Dall'Amico, Michela Mapelli, Giuliano Iorio +5
In binary star systems, mass transfer can spin up the accretor, possibly leading to efficient chemical mixing and chemically quasi-homogeneous evolution (CHE). Here, we explore the…
The more accurately the metal-dependent star formation rate is modeled, the larger the predicted excess of binary black hole mergers
Cecilia Sgalletta, Michela Mapelli, Lumen Boco +5
As the number of gravitational-wave detections grows, the merger rate of binary black holes (BBHs) can help us to constrain their formation, the properties of their progenitors, an…
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…
The boring history of Gaia BH3 from isolated binary evolution
Giuliano Iorio, Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli +15
Gaia BH3 is the first observed dormant black hole (BH) with a mass of M and represents the first confirmation that such massive BHs are associated with metal-…
Binary neutron star populations in the Milky Way
Cecilia Sgalletta, Giuliano Iorio, Michela Mapelli +7
Galactic binary neutron stars (BNSs) are a unique laboratory to probe the evolution of BNSs and their progenitors. Here, we use a new version of the population synthesis code SEVN…
Compact object mergers: exploring uncertainties from stellar and binary evolution with SEVN
Giuliano Iorio, Michela Mapelli, Guglielmo Costa +9
Population-synthesis codes are an unique tool to explore the parameter space of massive binary star evolution and binary compact object (BCO) formation. Most population-synthesis c…
Host galaxies and electromagnetic counterparts to binary neutron star mergers across the cosmic time: Detectability of GW170817-like events
Rosalba Perna, M. Celeste Artale, Yi-Han Wang +4
The detection of electromagnetic radiation (EM) accompanying the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 has revealed that these systems c…