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20232026
most citedPre-supernova evolution and final fate of stellar mergers and accretors of binary mass transfer

50 citations · 154 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Asteroseismic rotation rates of hot subdwarf B stars hint at transient accretion from leftover common envelope matter

Facundo D. Moyano, Hongwei Ge, Zhanwen Han +6

Asteroseismology enabled measuring the rotation rate in the deep stellar interiors of stars across several evolutionary phases, advancing the theory of angular momentum transport i…

astro-ph.SR2026

Formation of black holes from He stars

Gang Long, Bo Wang, Philipp Podsiadlowski +5

Massive He stars are potential candidates of type Ib/c supernova (SN) progenitors. Understanding their final fates remains a key issue in astrophysics. In this work, we investigate…

astro-ph.SR2026

Evolution of wide O star binaries through their LBV stage. Population synthesis with mass-ejection-driven orbital evolution

Xiao-Tian Xu, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Norbert Langer +6

Context. Long-period Wolf-Rayet (WR) star binaries produced by mass transfer are predicted to be abundant, but are observationally rare. This yields constraints on the evolution of…

astro-ph.HE2025

New gravitational-wave data support a bimodal black-hole mass distribution

R. Willcox, F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace +7

Detailed stellar evolution and supernova models yield a bimodal black-hole mass distribution with a narrow peak around 10 solar masses from stars within a narrow range of progenito…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Pulsations change the structures of massive stars before explosion: interpreting SN 2023ixf and SN 2024ggi

Eva Laplace, Vincent A. Bronner, Fabian R. N. Schneider +1

Massive red supergiants (RSGs) are known to become hydrodynamically unstable before they explode. Still, the vast majority of supernova (SN) models assume RSG progenitors in hydros…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

Supernovae from stellar mergers and accretors of binary mass transfer: Implications for Type IIP, 1987A-like and interacting supernovae

F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace, Ph. Podsiadlowski

As most massive stars are born in binary and other multiple-star systems, many are expected to exchange mass with a companion star or merge with it during their lives. This means t…

astro-ph.HE2025

Supernova-induced binary-interaction-powered supernovae: a model for SN2022jli

Ryosuke Hirai, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Peter Hoeflich +4

We present 3D hydrodynamical modelling of supernova-induced binary-interaction-powered supernovae; a scenario proposed for the peculiar type Ic supernova SN2022jli. In this scenari…

astro-ph.SR2024

Going from 3D common-envelope simulations to fast 1D simulations

V. A. Bronner, F. R. N. Schneider, Ph. Podsiadlowski +1

One-dimensional (1D) methods for simulating the common-envelope (CE) phase offer advantages over three-dimensional (3D) simulations regarding their computational speed and feasibil…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 40 cited

It's written in the massive stars: The role of stellar physics in the formation of black holes

E. Laplace, F. R. N. Schneider, Ph. Podsiadlowski

In the age of gravitational-wave (GW) sources and newly discovered local black holes (BH) and neutron stars (NS), understanding the fate of stars is a key question. Not every massi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

Neutron star kicks plus rockets as a mechanism for forming wide low-eccentricity neutron star binaries

Ryosuke Hirai, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Alexander Heger +1

Recent neutron star surface observations corroborate a long-standing theory that neutron stars may be accelerated over extended periods after their birth. We analyze how these prol…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 50 cited

Pre-supernova evolution and final fate of stellar mergers and accretors of binary mass transfer

F. R. N. Schneider, Ph. Podsiadlowski, E. Laplace

The majority of massive stars are expected to exchange mass or merge with a companion during their lives. This immediately implies that most supernovae (SNe) are from such post-mas…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

An upper limit on the spins of merging binary black holes formed through binary evolution

Pablo Marchant, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Ilya Mandel

As gravitational wave detectors improve, observations of black hole (BH) mergers will provide the joint distribution of their masses and spins. This will be a critical benchmark to…

astro-ph.SR2023

Going from 3D to 1D: A one-dimensional approach to common-envelope evolution

V. A. Bronner, F. R. N. Schneider, Ph. Podsiadlowski +1

The common-envelope (CE) phase is a crucial stage in binary star evolution because the orbital separation can shrink drastically while ejecting the envelope of a giant star. Three-…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Convective-core overshooting and the final fate of massive stars

D. Temaj, F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace +2

Massive stars can explode in powerful supernovae (SNe) forming neutron stars but they may also collapse directly into black holes (BHs). Understanding and predicting their final fa…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

Evolution and final fate of massive post-common-envelope binaries

Dandan Wei, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Philipp Podsiadlowski +3

Mergers of neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) are nowadays observed routinely thanks to gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. In the isolated binary-evolution channel, a common…