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The Evolution of Kicked Stellar-Mass Black Holes in Star Cluster Environments
Jeremy J. Webb, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Abhishek Singh +3
We consider how dynamical friction acts on black holes that receive a velocity kick while located at the center of a gravitational potential, analogous to a star cluster, due to ei…
Merging black hole binaries: the effects of progenitor's metallicity, mass-loss rate and Eddington factor
Nicola Giacobbo, Michela Mapelli, Mario Spera
The first four gravitational wave events detected by LIGO were all interpreted as merging black hole binaries (BHBs), opening a new perspective on the study of such systems. Here w…
Star cluster disruption by a massive black hole binary
Elisa Bortolas, Michela Mapelli, Mario Spera
Massive black hole binaries (BHBs) are expected to form as the result of galaxy mergers; they shrink via dynamical friction and stellar scatterings, until gravitational waves (GWs)…
The cosmic merger rate of stellar black hole binaries from the Illustris simulation
Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, Emanuele Ripamonti +1
The cosmic merger rate density of black hole binaries (BHBs) can give us an essential clue to constraining the formation channels of BHBs, in light of current and forthcoming gravi…
Very massive stars, pair-instability supernovae and intermediate-mass black holes with the SEVN code
Mario Spera, Michela Mapelli
Understanding the link between massive ( M) stellar black holes (BHs) and their progenitor stars is a crucial step to interpret observations of gravitationa…