3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Red vs. Blue: How metallicity shapes black hole dynamics and mergers in dense star clusters
Saloni Agrawal, Kyle Kremer, Michael Zevin +6
Dense star clusters are a well-established environment for the formation of gravitational wave sources through dynamical interactions. Recent LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) events such as…
astro-ph.GA2026
Black hole mergers from dense star clusters with realistic binary populations
Christopher E. O'Connor, Kyle Kremer, Saloni Agrawal +5
We present a suite of 24 full-lifetime simulations of dense star clusters with the Cluster Monte Carlo (CMC) code, featuring updated input physics and a realistic distribution of i…
astro-ph.HE2026
Survival Analysis of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
Miguel A. S. Martinez, Elena González Prieto, Frederic A. Rasio
Recently, an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidate was announced in the Galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri. IMBHs at the lower end of the traditional mass range have…