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astro-ph.HE2026

Identity Crisis: Untangling Mass-Ordering Artifacts from Compact-Object Pairing in Gravitational-Wave Populations

Soumendra Kishore Roy, Asad Hussain, L. A. C. van Son +3

Mass distributions of binary black hole mergers inferred from gravitational-wave observations offer clues to how binaries form. These distributions conventionally label the heavier…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Diverse Distribution of Black Hole Spins from Stable Mass Transfer

Linhao Ma, Jakub Klencki, Eliot Quataert +1

Gravitational wave observations have found over 300 merging binary black holes, yet their origins remain uncertain. Recent work showed that many may come from isolated stellar bina…

astro-ph.HE2026

How Common Are Common Envelopes? Quantifying Their Role in Forming Gravitational-Wave Sources

Floor S. Broekgaarden, Ana Lam, Sasha Levina +14

A central goal of gravitational-wave astronomy is to use merging binary black hole (BBH), black hole-neutron star (BHNS), and binary neutron star (BNS) systems as fossils to recons…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Strongly Parametrized Mass Ratio Model for the Stable Mass Transfer Channel: a Case Study of the Peak

Jaxen Godfrey, Lieke van Son, Ben Farr

The mass ratio of merging binary black holes (BBHs) carries information about their formation history, yet has received less attention than masses, spins and eccentricities as a ch…

astro-ph.HE2025

Non-conservative Mass Transfer as a Formation Channel for Gaia Black Hole System

Aleksandra Olejak, Jakub Klencki, Alejandro Vigna-Gomez +6

The detected Gaia systems hosting compact objects challenge standard models of binary star evolution. In particular, if the observed black hole (BH) systems evolved in isolation, t…

astro-ph.HE2023

Pulsational pair-instability supernovae in gravitational-wave and electromagnetic transients

D. D. Hendriks, L. A. C. van Son, M. Renzo +2

Current observations of binary black-hole ({BBH}) merger events show support for a feature in the primary BH-mass distribution at , previously interpr…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 83 cited

No peaks without valleys: The stable mass transfer channel for gravitational-wave sources in light of the neutron star-black hole mass gap

L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, M. Renzo +6

Gravitational-wave (GW) detections are starting to reveal features in the mass distribution of double compact objects. The lower end of the black hole (BH) mass distribution is esp…

astro-ph.HE2021

Impact of Massive Binary Star and Cosmic Evolution on Gravitational Wave Observations II: Double Compact Object Rates and Properties

Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger, Simon Stevenson +9

Making the most of the rapidly increasing population of gravitational-wave detections of black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) mergers requires comparing observations with populati…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 54 cited

Gravitational wave sources in our Galactic backyard: Predictions for BHBH, BHNS and NSNS binaries detectable with LISA

Tom Wagg, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Selma E. de Mink +3

Future searches for gravitational waves from space will be sensitive to double compact objects (DCOs) in our Milky Way. We present new simulations of the populations of double blac…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 152 cited

The redshift evolution of the binary black hole merger rate: a weighty matter

L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, T. Callister +7

Gravitational wave detectors are starting to reveal the redshift evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) merger rate, . We make predictions for $R_{\mathrm{BB…