Common envelope ejection in massive binary stars - Implications for the progenitors of GW150914 and GW151226

M. U. Kruckow, T. M. Tauris, N. Langer +3

The recently detected gravitational wave signals (GW150914 and GW151226) of the merger event of a pair of relatively massive stellar-mass black holes (BHs) calls for an investigati…