5 papers
Diversity of stripped-envelope supernova light curves from interaction with binary-driven circumstellar material
Dandan Wei, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Philipp Podsiadlowski +2
A growing number of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) exhibit diverse light-curve morphologies that indicate strong interaction with dense, pre-existing circumstellar material (CSM)…
Binary evolution at the extremes of mass-transfer efficiency: Contact, mergers, and population signatures
Jan Henneco, Utkarsh R. Basu, Fabian R. N. Schneider
Binary star evolution remains inherently uncertain, and several physical processes are not well understood. These open questions in binary physics come in addition to major uncerta…
Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes. III. Mass Distribution of Hierarchical Mergers
Katherine L. Gonglewski, Amy Secunda, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +3
Active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks are a promising location for the formation of binary black holes (BBHs) that will merge on relatively short timescales and be detected by LIGO-V…
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…
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…