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Good things always come in 3s: trimodality in the binary black-hole chirp-mass distribution supports bimodal black-hole formation
Reinhold Willcox, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Eva Laplace +7
The latest GWTC-4 release from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration nearly doubles the known population of double compact object mergers and reveals a new trimodal structure in…
New gravitational-wave data support a bimodal black-hole mass distribution
R. Willcox, F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace +7
Detailed stellar evolution and supernova models yield a bimodal black-hole mass distribution with a narrow peak around 10 solar masses from stars within a narrow range of progenito…
Explosions of pulsating red supergiants: a natural pathway for the diversity of Type II-P/L supernovae
V. A. Bronner, E. Laplace, F. R. N. Schneider +1
Red supergiants (RSGs), which are progenitors of hydrogen-rich Type II supernovae (SNe), have been known to pulsate from both observations and theory. The pulsations can be present…
Pulsations change the structures of massive stars before explosion: interpreting SN 2023ixf and SN 2024ggi
Eva Laplace, Vincent A. Bronner, Fabian R. N. Schneider +1
Massive red supergiants (RSGs) are known to become hydrodynamically unstable before they explode. Still, the vast majority of supernova (SN) models assume RSG progenitors in hydros…
Supernovae from stellar mergers and accretors of binary mass transfer: Implications for Type IIP, 1987A-like and interacting supernovae
F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace, Ph. Podsiadlowski
As most massive stars are born in binary and other multiple-star systems, many are expected to exchange mass with a companion star or merge with it during their lives. This means t…
Carbon from massive binary-stripped stars over cosmic time: effect of metallicity
Jing-Ze Ma, Rob Farmer, Selma E. de Mink +1
The origin of carbon in the Universe remains uncertain. At solar metallicity, binary-stripped massive stars -- stars that lost their envelope through stable interaction with a comp…
Explodability criteria for the neutrino-driven supernova mechanism
K. Maltsev, F. R. N. Schneider, I. Mandel +4
Massive stars undergoing iron core-collapse at the end of their evolution terminate their lives either in successful or failed supernovae (SNe). The physics of core-collapse supern…
The landscape of binary core-collapse supernova progenitors and the late emergence of Wolf-Rayet winds
Avishai Gilkis, Eva Laplace, Iair Arcavi +2
The majority of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) progenitors are massive stars in multiple systems, and their evolution and final fate are affected by interactions with their compani…
Using detailed single star and binary evolution models to probe the large observed luminosity spread of red supergiants in young open star clusters
Chen Wang, Lee Patrick, Abel Schootemeijer +12
Red supergiants (RSGs) represent a late evolutionary stage of massive stars. Recent observations reveal that the observed luminosity range of RSGs in young open clusters is wider t…