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astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

The formation of merging black holes at solar metallicity

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Emmanouil Zapartas +11

The maximum mass of black holes formed in isolated binaries is determined by stellar winds and the interactions between the binary components. We consider for the first time fully…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 18 cited

A Black Hole Kicked At Birth: MAXI J1305-704

Chase Kimball, Sam Imperato, Vicky Kalogera +12

When a compact object is formed in a binary, any mass lost during core collapse will impart a kick on the binary's center of mass. Asymmetries in this mass loss or neutrino emissio…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

Investigating the Lower Mass Gap with Low Mass X-ray Binary Population Synthesis

Jared C. Siegel, Ilia Kiato, Vicky Kalogera +14

Mass measurements from low-mass black hole X-ray binaries (LMXBs) and radio pulsars have been used to identify a gap between the most massive neutron stars (NSs) and the least mass…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 21 cited

X-ray luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries: Studying the signatures of different physical processes using detailed binary evolution calculations

Devina Misra, Konstantinos Kovlakas, Tassos Fragos +11

The ever-expanding observational sample of X-ray binaries (XRBs) makes them excellent laboratories for constraining binary evolution theory. Such constraints can be obtained by stu…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 599 cited

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure

Adam S. Jermyn, Evan B. Bauer, Josiah Schwab +19

We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). The new auto_diff module implements automatic different…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 74 cited

The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies I. RR Lyrae-based Distances and Refined 3D Geometric Structure

Alessandro Savino, Daniel R. Weisz, Evan D. Skillman +33

We measure homogeneous distances to M31 and 38 associated stellar systems (16.8 6.0), using time-series observations of RR Lyrae stars taken as part of the Hubbl…