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Evolution of Main Sequence Stars Transferring Mass to a Supermassive Black Hole
Andrey Sandomirsky, Re'em Sari, Aleksandra Olejak +1
We consider main-sequence stars orbiting close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), which are potential gravitational wave (GW) sources for LISA if their orbital periods are of the…
Type Ib supernovae are bluer than Type Ic supernovae
Harim Jin, Selma E. de Mink, Sebastian Holzner +5
Type Ib and Ic supernovae (SNe Ib/Ic) are the bright finale of massive stars that have lost their hydrogen envelopes, making them powerful probes of mass stripping in massive star…
Non-conservative Mass Transfer as a Formation Channel for Gaia Black Hole System
Aleksandra Olejak, Jakub Klencki, Alejandro Vigna-Gomez +6
The detected Gaia systems hosting compact objects challenge standard models of binary star evolution. In particular, if the observed black hole (BH) systems evolved in isolation, t…
Very Massive, Rapidly Spinning Binary Black Hole Progenitors through Chemically Homogeneous Evolution -- The Case of GW231123
Silvia A. Popa, Selma E. de Mink
Among the over 200 gravitational wave detections reported so far, GW231123 is a remarkable event that not only holds the record for the most massive black hole merger, but also exh…
Expected insights on type Ia supernovae from LISA's gravitational wave observations
Valeriya Korol, Riccardo Buscicchio, Ruediger Pakmor +3
The nature of progenitors of Type Ia supernovae has long been debated, primarily due to the elusiveness of the progenitor systems to traditional electromagnetic observation methods…
Long-term Evolution of Binary Orbits Induced by Circumbinary Disks
Ruggero Valli, Christopher Tiede, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez +6
Circumbinary disks are found in a variety of astrophysical scenarios, spanning binary star formation to accreting supermassive black hole binaries. The interaction with a circumbin…
Explosions in Roche-Lobe Distorted Stars: Relativistic Bullets in Binaries
Marcus DuPont, Andrew MacFadyen, Selma de Mink
State-of-the-art surveys reveal that most massive stars in the universe evolve in close binaries. Massive stars in such systems are expected to develop aspherical envelopes due to…
Simulating the tidal disruption of stars by stellar-mass black holes using moving-mesh hydrodynamics
Pavan Vynatheya, Taeho Ryu, Ruediger Pakmor +2
In the centers of dense star clusters, close encounters between stars and compact objects are likely to occur. We study tidal disruption events of main-sequence (MS) stars by stell…
Close Encounters of Star - Black Hole Binaries with Single Stars
Taeho Ryu, Selma de Mink, Rob Farmer +3
Multi-body dynamical interactions of binaries with other objects are one of the main driving mechanisms for the evolution of star clusters. It is thus important to bring our unders…
Close encounters of black hole - star binaries with stellar-mass black holes
Taeho Ryu, Ruggero Valli, Rudiger Pakmor +3
Dynamical interactions involving binaries play a crucial role in the evolution of star clusters and galaxies. We continue our investigation of the hydrodynamics of three-body encou…
Close Encounters of Tight Binary Stars with Stellar-mass Black Holes
Taeho Ryu, Rosalba Perna, Ruediger Pakmor +3
Strong dynamical interactions among stars and compact objects are expected in a variety of astrophysical settings, such as star clusters and the disks of active galactic nuclei. Vi…
No peaks without valleys: The stable mass transfer channel for gravitational-wave sources in light of the neutron star-black hole mass gap
L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, M. Renzo +6
Gravitational-wave (GW) detections are starting to reveal features in the mass distribution of double compact objects. The lower end of the black hole (BH) mass distribution is esp…
The Candidate Progenitor Companion Star of the Type Ib/c SN 2013ge
Ori D. Fox, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Benjamin F. Williams +17
This Letter presents the detection of a source at the position of the Type Ib/c supernova (SN) 2013ge more than four years after the radioactive component is expected to have faded…
Impact of Massive Binary Star and Cosmic Evolution on Gravitational Wave Observations II: Double Compact Object Rates and Properties
Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger, Simon Stevenson +9
Making the most of the rapidly increasing population of gravitational-wave detections of black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) mergers requires comparing observations with populati…
Gravitational wave sources in our Galactic backyard: Predictions for BHBH, BHNS and NSNS binaries detectable with LISA
Tom Wagg, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Selma E. de Mink +3
Future searches for gravitational waves from space will be sensitive to double compact objects (DCOs) in our Milky Way. We present new simulations of the populations of double blac…
LEGWORK: A python package for computing the evolution and detectability of stellar-origin gravitational-wave sources with space-based detectors
Tom Wagg, Katelyn Breivik, Selma E. de Mink
We present LEGWORK (LISA Evolution and Gravitational Wave Orbit Kit), an open-source Python package for making predictions about stellar-origin gravitational wave sources and their…
The redshift evolution of the binary black hole merger rate: a weighty matter
L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, T. Callister +7
Gravitational wave detectors are starting to reveal the redshift evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) merger rate, . We make predictions for $R_{\mathrm{BB…
Impact of Massive Binary Star and Cosmic Evolution on Gravitational Wave Observations I: Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers
Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger, Coenraad J. Neijssel +7
Mergers of black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries have now been observed by GW detectors with the recent announcement of GW200105 and GW200115. Such observations not only provide…
Binary population synthesis with probabilistic remnant mass and kick prescriptions
Ilya Mandel, Bernhard Mueller, Jeff Riley +3
We report on the impact of a probabilistic prescription for compact remnant masses and kicks on massive binary population synthesis. We find that this prescription populates the pu…
The diverse lives of progenitors of hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernovae: the role of binary interaction
Emmanouil Zapartas, Selma E. de Mink, Stephen Justham +7
Hydrogen-rich supernovae, known as Type II (SNe II), are the most common class of explosions observed following the collapse of the core of massive stars. We use analytical estimat…
Massive Stellar Mergers as Precursors of Hydrogen-rich Pulsational Pair Instability Supernovae
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Stephen Justham, Ilya Mandel +2
Interactions between massive stars in binaries are thought to be responsible for much of the observed diversity of supernovae. As surveys probe rarer populations of events, we shou…
Pulsational pair-instability supernovae in very close binaries
Pablo Marchant, Mathieu Renzo, Robert Farmer +4
Pair-instability and pulsational pair-instability supernovae (PPISN) have not been unambiguously observed so far. They are, however, promising candidates for the progenitors of the…
Predicting the Presence of Companions for Stripped-Envelope Supernovae: The Case of the Broad-Lined Type Ic SN 2002ap
E. Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, S. D. Van Dyk +10
Many young, massive stars are found in close binaries. Using population synthesis simulations we predict the likelihood of a companion star being present when these massive stars e…
Formation of the first three gravitational-wave observations through isolated binary evolution
Simon Stevenson, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Ilya Mandel +4
During its first 4 months of taking data, Advanced LIGO has detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers, GW150914 and GW151226, along with the statistically les…