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astro-ph.HE2026

The impact of stellar binaries and star cluster dynamics on pair-instability supernovae

Francesco Gabrielli, Cristiano Ugolini, Lavinia Paiella +12

Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) are among the most luminous transients in the Universe. However, they have never been confidently observed. Solving this puzzle would have key i…

astro-ph.HE2026

Can current models predict the local black hole merger rate?

Lumen Boco, Michele Bosi, Cecilia Sgalletta +2

After four observational runs, the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra collaboration estimated a local binary black hole (BBH) merger rate density of $R_{0,\textrm{LVK}}\simeq 14-26\,\textrm{Gpc}^{-3…

astro-ph.HE20253 cited

Optically thick winds of very massive stars suppress intermediate-mass black hole formation

Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli, Lumen Boco +3

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are the link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. Gravitational waves have started unveiling a population of IMBHs in the $\sim…

astro-ph.HE2025

Impact of stellar winds on the pair-instability supernova rate

Filippo Simonato, Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli +4

Very massive stars (VMSs, 100 M) play a crucial role in several astrophysical processes. At low metallicity, they might collapse directly into black ho…

astro-ph.HE2025

The more accurately the metal-dependent star formation rate is modeled, the larger the predicted excess of binary black hole mergers

Cecilia Sgalletta, Michela Mapelli, Lumen Boco +5

As the number of gravitational-wave detections grows, the merger rate of binary black holes (BBHs) can help us to constrain their formation, the properties of their progenitors, an…

astro-ph.HE2024

Constraining the Initial-Mass Function via Stellar Transients

Francesco Gabrielli, Lumen Boco, Giancarlo Ghirlanda +4

The stellar initial-mass function (IMF) represents a fundamental quantity in astrophysics and cosmology, describing the mass distribution of stars from low to very-high masses. It…