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most citedVery massive stars, pair-instability supernovae and intermediate-mass black holes with the SEVN code

344 citations · 4.4k across the 83 of their papers we have counts for

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87 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

StAGE: Stellar Archaeology-driven Galaxy Evolution II. Binary Black Hole Mergers in Quiescent Galaxies and their Star-forming Progenitors

Irene Iorio, Andrea Lapi, Lumen Boco +5

We apply StAGE, a data-driven galaxy-evolution framework based on stellar archaeology, to study binary black hole (BBH) mergers in quiescent galaxies (QGs) and their star-forming p…

astro-ph.HE2026

The impact of stellar binaries and star cluster dynamics on pair-instability supernovae

Francesco Gabrielli, Cristiano Ugolini, Lavinia Paiella +12

Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) are among the most luminous transients in the Universe. However, they have never been confidently observed. Solving this puzzle would have key i…

astro-ph.SR2026

The impact of envelope binding energies on the merger rate density of binary compact objects

Cecilia Sgalletta, Guglielmo Costa, Giuliano Iorio +8

The common envelope (CE) phase plays a key role in the formation of binary compact object systems. Its final outcome strongly depends on the envelope binding energy, but this quant…

cs.DC2026

Assessing Performance and Porting Strategies for Gravitational -Body Simulations on the RISC-V-Based Tenstorrent Wormhole\textsuperscript{\texttrademark}

Jenny Lynn Almerol, Elisabetta Boella, Mario Spera +1

While RISC-V-based accelerators were initially designed with artificial intelligence applications in mind, they are increasingly being recognized as promising platforms for high pe…

cs.DC2025★ 4 cited

Accelerating Gravitational -Body Simulations Using the RISC-V-Based Tenstorrent Wormhole

Jenny Lynn Almerol, Elisabetta Boella, Mario Spera +1

Although originally developed primarily for artificial intelligence workloads, RISC-V-based accelerators are also emerging as attractive platforms for high-performance scientific c…

astro-ph.GA2025

Assembling GW231123 in star clusters through the combination of stellar binary evolution and hierarchical mergers

Lavinia Paiella, Cristiano Ugolini, Mario Spera +2

GW231123 is the most massive binary black hole (BBH) merger detected to date by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. With at least one black hole (BH) in the upper-mass gap and both…