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most citedStellar-mass black holes in star clusters: implications for gravitational wave radiation

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astro-ph.GA2026

Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters -- VII. Comparisons with gravitational-wave events until LVK-O4a and Gaia compact binaries

Sambaran Banerjee

Gravitational-wave (GW) detections by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) observatories suggest multiple formation channels for GW compact binary mergers. Here I assess the role of young ma…

astro-ph.GA2025

The velocity dispersion profile of nine open clusters in the solar neighborhood

Bingqian Ma, XiaoYing Pang, Sambaran Banerjee +2

We analyze the velocity dispersion profiles of nine open clusters in the solar neighborhood using kinematic data from Gaia DR 3, aiming to identify potential dynamical signatures o…

astro-ph.GA2025

Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters -- VI. Role of external galactic field

Sambaran Banerjee

Young massive clusters (YMC) and open clusters (OC) are widely considered as potential environments for assembling merging binary stellar-remnant black holes (BBH) via dynamical in…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

On the effective spin-mass ratio relation of binary black hole mergers that evolved in isolation

Sambaran Banerjee, Aleksandra Olejak

The ground-based measurement of gravitational waves (GW) from merging binary black holes (BBH) allows independent determination of spins of stellar-remnant black holes (BH). The ob…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

The enigmatic origin of two dormant BH binaries: Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2

Iwona Kotko, Sambaran Banerjee, Krzysztof Belczynski

The two systems, namely, Gaia~BH1 and Gaia~BH2, that have been confirmed as dormant (i.e., no X-ray emission detected) black hole (BH) - low-mass star binaries in the latest Gaia m…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Symmetry breaking in merging binary black holes from young massive clusters and isolated binaries

Sambaran Banerjee, Aleksandra Olejak, Krzysztof Belczynski

Properties of the to-date-observed binary black hole (BBH) merger events suggest a preference towards spin-orbit aligned mergers. Naturally, this has caused widespread interest and…