7 papers
Ongoing and Post-Mass-Transfer Binaries: A Living Catalog and Unified Review of Binary Mass Transfer Products
Lieke A. C. van Son, Natsuko Yamaguchi, Pranav Nagarajan +6
Mass transfer is arguably the most defining interaction in binary stellar systems, yet many aspects of its physics remain poorly understood, from stability to endpoints and observa…
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…
Complex spectral variability and hints of a luminous companion in the Be star + black hole binary candidate ALS 8814
Kareem El-Badry, Matthias Fabry, Hugues Sana +2
The emission-line binary ALS 8814 was recently proposed as a Be star + black hole (BH) binary based on large-amplitude radial velocity (RV) variations of a Be star and non-detectio…
New Frontiers in the Study of Magnetic Massive Stars with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Alexandre David-Uraz, Véronique Petit, Coralie Neiner +10
High-mass stars are notable for several reasons: they are characterized by strong winds, which inject momentum and enriched material into their surroundings, and die spectacularly…
Characterisation of B-type stars in four young Galactic open clusters. I. Stellar content and binary properties
Federica Nardini, Julia Bodensteiner, Hugues Sana +3
Multiplicity among massive stars represents a major uncertainty in stellar evolution theory, because the extra physical processes that it introduces significantly impacts each star…
Modeling contact binaries, III. Properties of a population of close, massive binaries
Matthias Fabry, Pablo Marchant, Norbert Langer +1
Among massive stars, binary interaction is the rule rather than the exception. The closest binaries, those with periods of less than about 10 days, undergo mass transfer during cor…