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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…
Explosions of pulsating red supergiants: a natural pathway for the diversity of Type II-P/L supernovae
V. A. Bronner, E. Laplace, F. R. N. Schneider +1
Red supergiants (RSGs), which are progenitors of hydrogen-rich Type II supernovae (SNe), have been known to pulsate from both observations and theory. The pulsations can be present…
Explodability criteria for the neutrino-driven supernova mechanism
K. Maltsev, F. R. N. Schneider, I. Mandel +4
Massive stars undergoing iron core-collapse at the end of their evolution terminate their lives either in successful or failed supernovae (SNe). The physics of core-collapse supern…
The landscape of binary core-collapse supernova progenitors and the late emergence of Wolf-Rayet winds
Avishai Gilkis, Eva Laplace, Iair Arcavi +2
The majority of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) progenitors are massive stars in multiple systems, and their evolution and final fate are affected by interactions with their compani…
Carbon from massive binary-stripped stars over cosmic time: effect of metallicity
Jing-Ze Ma, Rob Farmer, Selma E. de Mink +1
The origin of carbon in the Universe remains uncertain. At solar metallicity, binary-stripped massive stars -- stars that lost their envelope through stable interaction with a comp…
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…