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Population synthesis is used to model the number of neutron stars in globular clusters that are observed as LMXBs and millisecond PSRs. The dynamical interaction between binary and single stars in a GC are assumed to take place with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Kuranov , K. A. Postnov

Observations of binaries containing pairs of neutron stars using the upcoming space-based gravitational wave observatory, LISA, have the potential to improve our understanding of neutron star physics and binary evolution. In this work we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Anatole Storck , Ross Church

Star clusters appear to be the ideal environment for the assembly of neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) and black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries. These binaries are among the most interesting astrophysical objects, being potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Giacomo Fragione , Sambaran Banerjee

We investigate the formation of merging binary black holes (BHs) through isolated binary evolution, performing binary population synthesis calculations covering an unprecedentedly wide metallicity range of Population (Pop) I, II, III, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-03 Ataru Tanikawa , Takashi Yoshida , Tomoya Kinugawa , Alessandro A. Trani , Takashi Hosokawa , Hajime Susa , Kazuyuki Omukai

One proposed black hole formation channel involves hierarchical mergers, where black holes form through repeated binary mergers. Previous studies have shown that such black holes follow a near-universal spin distribution centered around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-28 Angela Borchers , Claire S. Ye , Maya Fishbach

We study the four double neutron star systems found in the Galactic disk in terms of the orbital characteristics of their immediate progenitors and the natal kicks imparted to neutron stars. Analysis of the effect of the second supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Chris Fryer , Vassiliki Kalogera

We investigate the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) produced by merging binary black holes (BBHs) and binary neutron stars (BNSs) in the frequency ranges of LIGO/Virgo/Kagra and LISA. We develop three analytical models, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-28 Leonard Lehoucq , Irina Dvorkin , Rahul Srinivasan , Clement Pellouin , Astrid Lamberts

Binary interactions, especially mass transfer and mergers, can strongly influence the evolution of massive stars and change their final properties and the occurrence of supernovae. Here, we investigate how binary interactions affect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Tomoya Kinugawa , Tomoya Takiwaki , Koh Takahashi , Kei Kotake

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are laboratories for stellar evolution, strong gravity, and ultra-dense matter. Although MSPs are thought to originate in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), approximately 27% lack a binary companion, and others are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 S. Chanlaridis , D. Ohse , D. E. Alvarez-Castillo , J. Antoniadis , D. Blaschke , V. Danchev , N. Langer , D. Misra

Massive stars are born predominantly as members of binary (or higher multiplicity) systems, and the presence of a companion can significantly alter their life and final fate. Therefore, any observed sample of massive stars or associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-14 Mathieu Renzo , Emmanouil Zapartas

The recent release of the second Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-2) has increased significantly the number of known GW events, enabling unprecedented constraints on formation models of compact binaries. One pressing question is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Kaze W. K. Wong , Katelyn Breivik , Kyle Kremer , Thomas Callister

The fourth gravitational wave transient catalog~(GWTC-4) has enabled empirical probes of the theorized pair-instability gap in the higher end of the binary black hole~(BBH) mass-spectrum. In this letter, using flexibly parametrized models,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Anarya Ray , Vicky Kalogera

Double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are natural outcomes of binary stellar evolution and key sources for future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We investigate how different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Sreeta Roy , Surajit Kalita

[abridged] The galactic field's late-type stellar single and binary population is calculated on the supposition that all stars form as binaries in embedded star clusters. A recently developed tool (Marks, Kroupa & Oh) is used to evolve the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Michael Marks , Pavel Kroupa

According to the recycling model, neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries were spun up to millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which indicates that all MSPs in the Galactic plane ought to be harbored in binaries. However, about $20\%$ Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 Long Jiang , Na Wang , Wen-Cong Chen , Xiang-Dong Li , Wei-Min Liu , Zhi-Fu Gao

Binaries that contain a hot subdwarf (sdB) star and a main sequence companion may have interacted in the past. This binary population has historically helped determine our understanding of binary stellar evolution. We have computed a grid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Drew Clausen , Richard A Wade , Ravi kumar Kopparapu , Richard O'Shaughnessy

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaborations have reported gravitational wave signals from more than 150 binary black holes in the fourth catalog (GWTC-4). Here, we investigate the population properties of these binary black holes using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-31 Vaibhav Tiwari

The cosmic merger rate density of black hole binaries (BHBs) can give us an essential clue to constraining the formation channels of BHBs, in light of current and forthcoming gravitational wave detections. Following a Monte Carlo approach,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo , Emanuele Ripamonti , Mario Spera

Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, harbor a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) weighing millions to billions of solar masses. Surrounding these SMBHs are dense regions of stars and stellar remnants, such as neutron stars and black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-29 Carlos Jurado , Smadar Naoz , Casey Y. Lam , Bao-Minh Hoang

The recent O4a release from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, which significantly increased the number of gravitational-wave (GW) detections, reveals features with potentially important astrophysical implications. One notable example is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Aleksandra Olejak