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Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters. II. Clusters May Eat Their Own Tails
Newlin C. Weatherford, Frederic A. Rasio, Sourav Chatterjee +3
We apply for the first time the Monte Carlo star cluster modeling method to study tidal tail and stellar stream formation from globular clusters, assuming a circular orbit in a smo…
The dominant mechanism(s) for populating the outskirts of star clusters with neutron star binaries
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Claire S. Ye, Steffani M. Grondin +3
It has been argued that heavy binaries composed of neutron stars (NSs) and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) can end up in the outskirts of star clusters via an interaction with a massive…
Constraining the Properties of Black Hole Seeds from the Farthest Quasars
Giacomo Fragione, Fabio Pacucci
Over 60 years after the discovery of the first quasar, more than such sources are identified in the epoch of reionization at . JWST is now exploring higher redshifts ($z…
Accelerated binary black holes in globular clusters: forecasts and detectability in the era of space-based gravitational-wave detectors
Avinash Tiwari, Aditya Vijaykumar, Shasvath J. Kapadia +2
The motion of the center of mass of a coalescing binary black hole (BBH) in a gravitational potential imprints a line-of-sight acceleration (LOSA) onto the emitted gravitational wa…
Roman CCS White Paper: Characterizing the Galactic population of isolated black holes
Casey Y. Lam, Natasha Abrams, Jeff Andrews +34
Although there are estimated to be 100 million isolated black holes (BHs) in the Milky Way, only one has been found so far, resulting in significant uncertainty about their propert…
Globular cluster formation histories, masses and radii inferred from gravitational waves
Maya Fishbach, Giacomo Fragione
Globular clusters (GCs) are found in all types of galaxies and harbor some of the most extreme stellar systems, including black holes that may dynamically assemble into merging bin…
Neutron star kicks and implications for their rotation at birth
Giacomo Fragione, Abraham Loeb
Neutron stars are born out of core-collapse supernovae, and they are imparted natal kicks at birth as a consequence of asymmetric ejection of matter and possibly neutrinos. Unless…
A long-duration gamma-ray burst of dynamical origin from the nucleus of an ancient galaxy
Andrew J. Levan, Daniele B. Malesani, Benjamin P. Gompertz +29
The majority of long duration ( s) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to arise from the collapse of massive stars \cite{Hjorth+03}, with a small proportion created from the m…
On the Tidal Capture of White Dwarfs by Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Dense Stellar Environments
Claire S. Ye, Giacomo Fragione, Rosalba Perna
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes, widely believed to reside in at least some dense star clusters, but no…
LISA Constraints on an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Galactic Centre
Vladimir Strokov, Giacomo Fragione, Emanuele Berti
Galactic nuclei are potential hosts for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), whose gravitational field can affect the motion of stars and compact objects. The absence of observab…
Demographics of Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Dense Star Clusters
Giacomo Fragione, Frederic A. Rasio
With about a hundred mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) detected via gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, our understanding of the darkest objects in…
On the Likely Dynamical Origin of GW191109 and of Binary Black Hole Mergers with Negative Effective Spin
Rachel C. Zhang, Giacomo Fragione, Chase Kimball +1
With the growing number of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA, several systems have become difficult to explain via isolated binary evolution, having comp…
Constraining the cosmic merger history of intermediate-mass black holes with gravitational wave detectors
Giacomo Fragione, Abraham Loeb
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) have not been detected beyond any reasonable doubt through either dynamical or accretion signatures. Gravitational waves (GWs) represent an un…