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Binary black holes in the pair-instability mass gap
Ugo N. Di Carlo, Michela Mapelli, Yann Bouffanais +5
Pair instability (PI) and pulsational PI prevent the formation of black holes (BHs) with mass M from single star evolution. Here, we investigate the possibili…
Revising natal kick prescriptions in population synthesis simulations
Nicola Giacobbo, Michela Mapelli
Natal kicks are matter of debate and significantly affect the merger rate density of compact objects. Here, we present a new simple formalism for natal kicks of neutron stars (NSs)…
Impact of the Rotation and Compactness of Progenitors on the Mass of Black Holes
Michela Mapelli, Mario Spera, Enrico Montanari +5
We investigate the impact of stellar rotation on the formation of black holes (BHs), by means of our population-synthesis code SEVN. Rotation affects the mass function of BHs in se…
The host galaxies of double compact objects across cosmic time
Mattia Toffano, Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo +2
We explore the host galaxies of compact-object binaries (black hole--black hole binaries, BHBs; neutron star--black hole binaries, NSBHs; double-neutron stars; DNSs) across cosmic…
Gravitational-wave detection rates for compact binaries formed in isolation: LIGO/Virgo O3 and beyond
Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Davide Gerosa +4
Using simulations performed with the population synthesis code MOBSE, we compute the merger rate densities and detection rates of compact binary mergers formed in isolation for sec…
Bounding Alternative Theories of Gravity with Multi-Band GW Observations
Giuseppe Gnocchi, Andrea Maselli, Tiziano Abdelsalhin +2
We study the constraints on alternative theories of gravity that can be determined by multi-band observations of gravitational wave signals emitted from binary black hole coalescen…