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A Dynamical Survey of Stellar-Mass Black Holes in 50 Milky Way Globular Clusters
Newlin C. Weatherford, Sourav Chatterjee, Kyle Kremer +1
Recent numerical simulations of globular clusters (GCs) have shown that stellar-mass black holes (BHs) play a fundamental role in driving cluster evolution and shaping their presen…
COSMIC Variance in Binary Population Synthesis
Katelyn Breivik, Scott Coughlin, Michael Zevin +8
The formation and evolution of binary stars is a critical component of several fields in astronomy. The most numerous sources for gravitational wave observatories are inspiraling a…
Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond with the Cluster Catalog
Kyle Kremer, Claire S. Ye, Nicholas Z. Rui +6
We present a set of 148 independent -body simulations of globular clusters (GCs) computed using the code (). At an age of $\sim10-13…
On the Rate of Neutron Star Binary Mergers from Globular Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Wen-fai Fong, Kyle Kremer +4
The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star - neutron star (NS-NS) merger, GW170817, and the increasing number of observations of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs)…
Probing the Survival of Planetary Systems in Globular Clusters with Tidal Disruption Events
Kyle Kremer, Daniel J. D'Orazio, Johan Samsing +2
Among the growing list of confirmed exoplanets, the number of planets identified in dense star clusters remains sparse. Previous analyses have suggested this may be due in part to…
The Role of "Black Hole Burning" in the Evolution of Dense Star Clusters
Kyle Kremer, Claire S. Ye, Sourav Chatterjee +2
As self-gravitating systems, dense star clusters exhibit a natural diffusion of energy from their innermost to outermost regions, which leads to a slow and steady contraction of th…
Single-single gravitational-wave captures in globular clusters: Eccentric deci-Hertz sources observable by DECIGO and Tian-Qin
Johan Samsing, Daniel J. D'Orazio, Kyle Kremer +2
We study the formation rate of binary black hole mergers formed through gravitational-wave emission between unbound, single black holes in globular clusters. While the formation of…
Can Neutron-Star Mergers Explain the r-process Enrichment in Globular Clusters?
Michael Zevin, Kyle Kremer, Daniel M. Siegel +4
Star-to-star dispersion of r-process elements has been observed in a significant number of old, metal-poor globular clusters. We investigate early-time neutron-star mergers as the…
Black Holes: The Next Generation -- Repeated Mergers in Dense Star Clusters and their Gravitational-Wave Properties
Carl L. Rodriguez, Michael Zevin, Pau Amaro-Seoane +4
When two black holes merge in a dense star cluster, they form a new black hole with a well-defined mass and spin. If that "second-generation" black hole remains in the cluster, it…
Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Black Hole Remnants in Dense Star Clusters
Kyle Kremer, Wenbin Lu, Carl L. Rodriguez +2
In a dense stellar environment, such as the core of a globular cluster (GC), dynamical interactions with black holes (BHs) are expected to lead to a variety of astrophysical transi…
Astro2020 Decadal Science White Paper: Gravitational Wave Survey of Galactic Ultra Compact Binaries
Tyson B. Littenberg, Katelyn Breivik, Warren R. Brown +6
Ultra-compact binaries (UCBs) are systems containing compact or degenerate stars with orbital periods less than one hour. Tens of millions of UCBs are predicted to exist within the…
Millisecond Pulsars and Black Holes in Globular Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee +2
Over a hundred millisecond radio pulsars (MSPs) have been observed in globular clusters (GCs), motivating theoretical studies of the formation and evolution of these sources throug…
In Search of the Thermal Eccentricity Distribution
Aaron M. Geller, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Mirek Giersz +2
About a century ago, Jeans (1919) discovered that if binary stars reach a state approximating energy equipartition, for example through many dynamical encounters that exchange ener…
Probing the Black Hole Merger History in Clusters using Stellar Tidal Disruptions
Johan Samsing, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Liang Dai +5
The dynamical assembly of binary black holes (BBHs) in dense star clusters (SCs) is one of the most promising pathways for producing observable gravitational wave (GW) sources, how…