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The recent discovery of a population of eccentric (e ~ 0.1) millisecond pulsar (MSP) binaries with low-mass white dwarf companions in the Galactic field represents a challenge to evolutionary models that explain MSP formation as recycling:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 E. D. Barr , P. C. C. Freire , M. Kramer , D. J. Champion , M. Berezina , C. G. Bassa , A. G. Lyne , B. W. Stappers

We study the statistics of 61 measured masses of neutron stars (NSs) in binary pulsar systems, including 18 double NS (DNS) systems, 26 radio pulsars (10 in our Galaxy) with white dwarf (WD) companions, 3 NSs with main-sequence companions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. M. Zhang , J. Wang , Y. H. Zhao , H. X. Yin , L. M. Song , D. P. Menezes , D. T. Wickramasinghe , L. Ferrario , P. Chardonnet

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of the evolutionary properties of intermediate-mass stars. The evolutionary sequences were computed from the Zero Age Main Sequence up to the central He exhaustion and often up to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Bono , F. Caputo , S. Cassisi , M. Marconi , L. Piersanti , A. Tornambe'

We have performed detailed numerical calculations of the non-conservative evolution of close X-ray binary systems with intermediate-mass (2.0-6.0 M_sun) donor stars and a 1.3 M_sun accreting neutron star. We calculated the thermal response…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. M. Tauris , E. P. J. van den Heuvel , G. J. Savonije

Compact binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with orbital periods $\lesssim1$d are key to understanding binary evolution involving massive neutron stars (NSs). Due to the ablation of the companion by the rapidly spinning pulsar, these systems…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-31 Devina Misra , Manuel Linares , Claire S. Ye

Magnetic braking (MB) mechanism plays a vital role throughout the evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). Considering the standard MB prescription, the initial orbital periods of LMXBs that can evolve into binary millisecond pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Xing-Peng Yang , Wen-Cong Chen

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) orbiting helium white dwarfs (WDs) in eccentric orbits challenge the established binary evolution paradigm that predicts efficient orbital circularization during the mass transfer episode that spins up the pulsar.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 John Antoniadis

Intermediate Mass Black Hole (IMBH) mergers with masses $10^4 - 10^6$ $M_{\odot}$ are expected to produce gravitational waves (GWs) detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) with high signal to noise ratios out to redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Fiza Javed , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Lucio Mayer , Peter Berczik , Andrea V. Macciò

Isolated millisecond pulsars (IMSPs) are a topic of academic contention. There are various models to explain their formation. We explore the formation of IMSP via quark novae (QN). During this formation process, low-mass X-ray binaries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Nurimangul Nurmamat , Chunhua Zhu , Guoliang Lü , Zhaojun Wang , Lin LI , Helei Liu

Neutron star-helium white dwarf (NS+He WD) binaries are important evolutionary products of close-orbit binary star systems. They are often observed as millisecond pulsars and may continue evolving into ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Hai-Liang Chen , Thomas M. Tauris , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) are among the most elusive objects in contemporary astrophysics. Both theoretical and observational evidence of their existence is subject of debate. Conversely, both theory and observations confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Alberto Sesana , Nicola Sartore , Bernadetta Devecchi , Andrea Possenti

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of Intermediate-Mass Black Hole (IMBH) binaries within Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) that contain a population of stellar-mass black holes (BHs). We examine how these stellar and BH populations…

We investigate the evolution of intermediate-mass (IMBHs), stellar (BHs) and binary black holes (BHBs), deposited near a supermassive black hole (SMBH) by a population of massive star clusters. Stellar BHs rapidly segregate around the SMBH,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta

In this paper, we study the secular dynamical evolution of binaries composed of intermediate-mass and stellar-mass black holes (IMBHs and SBHs, respectively) in orbit about a central super-massive black hole (SMBH) in galactic nuclei. Such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Giacomo Fragione , Nathan Leigh

Observations suggest that star clusters often form in binaries or larger bound groups. Therefore, mergers between two clusters are likely to occur. If these clusters both harbor an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH; 10^{2-4} Msun) in their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Marc Freitag

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

Binary neutron stars (BNSs) detected in the Milky Way have the total masses distributing narrowly around $\sim2.6-2.7M_\odot$, while the BNS merger GW190425 detected via gravitational wave has a significantly larger mass ($\sim3.4M_\odot$).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 Qingbo Chu , Youjun Lu , Shenghua Yu

When embedded in dense cluster cores, intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) acquire close stellar or stellar-remnant companions. These companions are not only gravitationally bound, they tend to hierarchically isolate from other cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Morgan MacLeod , Michele Trenti , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Helium stars stripped of their hydrogen envelopes represent pivotal phases in binary evolution, yet their origins, particularly within the intermediate-mass range of $2-8\, M_{\odot}$, still remain poorly understood. This population bridges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Gui-Yu Wang , Yong Shao , Jian-Guo He , Yu-Dong Nie , Xiao-Jie Xu , Xiang-Dong Li

The evolution of neutron stars in close binary systems with a low-mass companion is considered assuming the magnetic field to be confined within the solid crust. We adopt the standard scenario of the evolution in a close binary system in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Urpin , U. Geppert , D. Konenkov