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most citedUnequal-mass, highly-spinning binary black hole mergers in the stable mass transfer formation channel

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astro-ph.SR2026★ 4 cited

Thermal-timescale accretion does not always yield critical rotation in mass gainers

Chen Wang, Mike Y. M. Lau, Xiang-Dong Li +7

Binary evolution plays a central role in producing rapidly rotating stars. Previous studies have shown that mass gainers in binaries can reach critical rotation after accreting onl…

astro-ph.SR2025

The formation of merging black holes via stable mass transfer in massive binary stars

Xiao-Tian Xu, Norbert Langer, Jakub Klencki +2

The vast majority of massive binary systems in the universe is evidently unsuited to produce merging binary black holes. However, several narrow evolutionary paths of isolated mass…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Interacting binaries on the Main Sequence as in-situ tracers of mass transfer efficiency and stability

Koushik Sen, Mathieu Renzo, Harim Jin +8

Understanding the transfer of mass and angular momentum in binary interactions is crucial for modelling the evolution of any interacting binary after the first mass transfer phase.…

astro-ph.SR2025

Using detailed single star and binary evolution models to probe the large observed luminosity spread of red supergiants in young open star clusters

Chen Wang, Lee Patrick, Abel Schootemeijer +12

Red supergiants (RSGs) represent a late evolutionary stage of massive stars. Recent observations reveal that the observed luminosity range of RSGs in young open clusters is wider t…

astro-ph.SR2024

Stripped helium-star and compact object binaries in coeval populations -- predictions based on detailed binary evolution models

Chen Wang, Julia Bodensteiner, Xiao-Tian Xu +9

Massive stars mainly form in close binaries, where their mutual interactions can profoundly alter their evolutionary paths. Evolved binaries consisting of a massive OB-type main-se…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 9 cited

Analytic approximations for massive close post-mass transfer binary systems

Christoph Schürmann, Norbert Langer, Joana A. Kramer +3

Massive binary evolution models are needed to predict massive star populations in star forming galaxies, the supernova diversity, and the number and properties of gravitational wav…