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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…

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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…

physics.gen-ph2026

Multiplicity of Massive Stars at Low Metallicity: Early Results from the BLOeM Campaign

T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner, M. Abdul-Masih +73

Massive stars at low metallicity (Z) play a central role in shaping the high-redshift Universe, yet their multiplicity remains poorly constrained. The Binarity at Low Metallicity (…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Stellar Role Reversal: Multiple Features in the Mass and Mass Ratio Distributions of Merging Binary Black Holes from Stable Mass Transfer

Gina Chen, Katelyn Breivik, Lieke A. C. van Son

Observations of gravitational wave events have enabled the measurement of the merging binary black hole (BBH) mass function. This mass function encodes the physical interactions wh…

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…