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Rethinking Thorne-Żytkow Object Formation: The Fate of X-ray Binary LMC X-4 and Implications for Ultra-long Gamma-ray Bursts
Tenley Hutchinson-Smith, Rosa Wallace Everson, Angela A. Twum +5
We present a start-to-end simulation aimed at studying the long-term fate of high-mass X-ray binaries and whether a Thorne-Żytkow object (TŻO) might ultimately be assembled. We ana…
A Multiwavelength Study of the Massive Colliding Wind Binary WR 20a: A Possible Progenitor for Fast-Spinning LIGO Binary Black Hole Mergers
Grace M. Olivier, Laura A. Lopez, Katie Auchettl +7
WR 20a is the most massive close-in binary known in our Galaxy. It is composed of two 80 M Wolf-Rayet stars with a short period of 3.7 days in the open cl…
Fallback supernova assembly of heavy binary neutron stars and light black hole-neutron star pairs and the common stellar ancestry of GW190425 and GW200115
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Sophie L. Schrøder, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +4
The detection of the unusually heavy binary neutron star merger GW190425 marked a stark contrast to the mass distribution from known Galactic pulsars in double neutron star binarie…
On the maximum stellar rotation to form a black hole without an accompanying luminous transient
Ariadna Murguia-Berthier, Aldo Batta, Agnieszka Janiuk +4
The collapse of a massive star with low angular momentum content is commonly argued to result in the formation of a black hole without an accompanying bright transient. Our goal in…
The origin of spin in binary black holes: Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO
Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Ying Qin +7
We study the formation of coalescing binary black holes via the evolution of isolated field binaries that go through the common envelope phase in order to obtain the combined distr…
Accretion Feedback from newly-formed black holes and its implications for LIGO Sources
Aldo Batta, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Most common formation channels of stellar mass black hole (BH) binaries like the ones observed by LIGO, often assume they are assembled from the direct collapse of massive pre-supe…