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most citedDynamical formation of Gaia BH3 in the progenitor globular cluster of the ED-2 stream

30 citations · 36 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Fast Dynamical Modelling of Milky Way Globular Clusters -- II. Impacts of Black Hole Prescriptions

Nolan Dickson, Vincent Hénault-Brunet, Fotios Fronimos Pouliasis +3

The populations of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in globular clusters (GCs) play a key role in their dynamical evolution, however the mechanisms surrounding their formation and re…

astro-ph.GA2026

cBHBd: A fast code for the evolution of tidally limited star clusters and their binary black hole mergers

Fotios Fronimos Pouliasis, Nolan Dickson, Daniel Marín Pina +3

The evolution of star clusters is driven by stellar mass loss, two-body relaxation, and evaporation in the Galactic tidal field. Fast modeling tools are crucial for exploring diver…

astro-ph.HE2026

Repopulating the pair-instability mass gap without sustained growth to massive IMBHs: the case of 47\,Tuc

Debatri Chattopadhyay, Daniel Marín Pina, Mark Gieles +2

We model the formation and retention of the most massive black hole (BH) in 47~Tuc using the semi-analytical code \texttt{cBHBd}, coupling cluster evolution with binary BH dynamics…

astro-ph.GA2026

-body modelling of the ED-2 stream progenitor shows Gaia BH3's formation involved dynamical interactions

Daniel Marín Pina, Mark Gieles, Sara Rastello +3

Context. The Gaia collaboration announced the discovery of a binary of a massive black hole (33 M) with a low-mass giant star (Gaia BH3) in the ED-2 stellar stream. The pro…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The formation of Gaia BH3

Daniel Marín Pina, Mark Gieles, Sara Rastello +1

The Gaia collaboration announced the discovery of a massive black hole (BH) with a low-mass giant star companion, Gaia BH3, located in the ED-2 stellar stream. The properties of Ga…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Interactions among binary black holes in star clusters: Eccentric gravitational wave captures and triple formation

Daniel Marín Pina, Mark Gieles, Tomas Andrade +1

Numerical simulations of star clusters with black holes find that there is only a single dynamically active binary black hole (BBH), at odds with the theoretical expectation of ~5…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Binary-single interactions with different mass ratios

Bruno Rando Forastier, Daniel Marín Pina, Mark Gieles +2

Dynamical interactions in star clusters are an efficient mechanism to produce the coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) that have been detected with gravitational waves (GWs). We wa…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 30 cited

Dynamical formation of Gaia BH3 in the progenitor globular cluster of the ED-2 stream

Daniel Marín Pina, Sara Rastello, Mark Gieles +3

Context. The star-black hole (S-BH) binary known as Gaia BH3, discovered by the Gaia Collaboration is chemically and kinematically associated with the metal-poor ED-2 stream in the…

astro-ph.GA2023

Demographics of three-body binary black holes in star clusters: implications for gravitational waves

Daniel Marín Pina, Mark Gieles

To explain both the dynamics of a globular cluster and its production of gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes, it is necessary to understand its population of dyn…