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There is both theoretical expectation and some observational clues that intermediate mass black holes reside in nuclei of globular clusters. In order to find an independent indicator for their existence, we investigate in this paper how an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-18 L. Subr , G. Fragione , J. Dabringhausen

The origin, environment, and evolution of stellar-mass black hole binaries are still a mystery. One of the proposed binary formation mechanisms is manifest in dynamical interactions between multiple black holes. A resulting framework of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-08 Doğa Veske , Andrew G. Sullivan , Zsuzsa Márka , Imre Bartos , K. Rainer Corley , Johan Samsing , Riccardo Buscicchio , Szabolcs Márka

Compact binary mergers forming in star clusters may exhibit distinctive features that can be used to identify them among observed gravitational-wave (GW) sources. Such features likely depend on the host cluster structure and the physics of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Manuel Arca Sedda , Albrecht W. H. Kamlah , Rainer Spurzem , Francesco Paolo Rizzuto , Mirek Giersz , Thorsten Naab , Peter Berczik

Next generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors will observe binary black hole (BBH) mergers up to redshift $z\gtrsim{}10$, probing the evolution of compact binary (CB) mergers across cosmic time. Here, we present a new…

We compute the isotropic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) in galactic nuclei. In our model, massive binaries evolve at early times via gravitational-slingshot interaction with nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-04 Alexander Rasskazov , David Merritt

Recent detections of gravitational waves from mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) with pre-merger source-frame individual masses in the so-called upper mass-gap, expected due to (pulsational) pair instability supernova ((P)PISN), have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ambreesh Khurana , Sourav Chatterjee

In this Paper we consider a problem of formation and evolution of orbital parameters of a binary primordial black hole (PBH) due to gravitational interaction with clustering cold dark matter (CDM). Mass and initial separation have values,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sergey Pilipenko , Maxim Tkachev , Pavel Ivanov

The growing population of binary black holes (BBHs) observed by gravitational wave detectors is a potential Rosetta stone for understanding their formation channels. Here, we use an upgraded version of our semi-analytic codes {\sc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Michela Mapelli , Yann Bouffanais , Filippo Santoliquido , Manuel Arca Sedda , M. Celeste Artale

The binary black hole mergers observed by LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors pose two major challenges: (i) how to produce these massive black holes from stellar processes; and (ii) how to bring them close enough to merge within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-12 Karan Jani , Abraham Loeb

The majority of massive stars are found in close binaries which: (i) are prone to merge and (ii) are accompanied by another distant tertiary star (triples). Here, we study the evolution of the stellar post-merger binaries composed of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-11 Jakob Stegmann , Fabio Antonini , Fabian R. N. Schneider , Vaibhav Tiwari , Debatri Chattopadhyay

Dense stellar environments like nuclear star clusters (NSCs) can dynamically assemble gravitational wave (GW) sources. We consider a population of single stellar mass black holes (BHs) in the inner $0.1$~pc of a NSC surrounding a $4 \times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Amanda Newton , Sanaea C. Rose , Fulya Kıroğlu , Bao-Minh Hoang , Frederic A. Rasio

By using direct N-body numerical simulations, we model the dynamical co-evolution of two supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the surrounding stars in merging galaxies. In order to investigate how different stellar components evolve during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Shuo Li , Shiyan Zhong , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem , Xian Chen , F. K. Liu

The detection of over a hundred gravitational wave signals from double compacts objects have confirmed the existence of such binaries with tight orbits. Two main formation channels are generally considered to explain the formation of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Tristan Bruel , Astrid Lamberts , Carl L. Rodriguez , Robert Feldmann , Michael Y. Grudic , Jorge Moreno

We study a new channel for binary system formation involving stars and stellar-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) embedded in dark matter (DM) minihalos. In this scenario, binaries form when a star passes through the DM minihalo surrounding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-18 Nicolas Esser

We performed direct N-body simulations of open clusters with four different metallicities. To investigate the effective spins of merging binary black holes (BBHs) originated from these open clusters, we calculated the spin evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-19 Jun Kumamoto , Michiko S. Fujii , Alessandro A. Trani , Ataru Tanikawa

We perform a systematic study of merging black hole (BH) binaries with compact star (CS) companions, including black hole--white dwarf (BH--WD), black hole--neutron star (BH--NS) and black hole--black hole (BH--BH) systems. Previous studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Yong Shao , Xiang-Dong Li

Primordial black holes (PBHs), as a potential macroscopic candidate for dark matter, can encounter other compact objects in dark matter halos because of their random distribution. Besides, the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) related…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Saeed Fakhry , Zahra Salehnia , Azin Shirmohammadi , Javad T. Firouzjaee

Galaxies with stellar bulges are generically observed to host supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The hierarchical merging of galaxies should therefore lead to the formation of SMBH binaries. Merging of old massive galaxies with little gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Loren Hoffman , Abraham Loeb

Binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) are expected to form naturally during galaxy mergers. After the dynamical friction phase, when the two SMBHs become gravitationally bound to each other, and a brief stage of initial rapid hardening,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

The evolution of main sequence binaries resided in the galactic centre is influenced a lot by the central super massive black hole (SMBH). Due to this perturbation, the stars in a dense environment are likely to experience mergers or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Bin Liu , Yi-Han Wang , Ye-Fei Yuan