English
Related papers

Related papers: Forming merging double compact objects with stable…

200 papers

Current stellar evolution models predict a dearth of black holes (BHs) with masses $\gtrsim 50$ M$_\odot$ and $\lesssim 5$ M$_\odot$, and intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; $\sim10^2- 10^5$ M$_\odot$) have not yet been detected beyond…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Giacomo Fragione , Joseph Silk

Both the core collapse of rotating massive stars, and the coalescence of neutron star (NS) binaries, result in the formation of a hot, differentially rotating NS remnant. The timescales over which differential rotation is removed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Ben Margalit , Adam S. Jermyn , Brian D. Metzger , Luke F. Roberts , Eliot Quataert

Massive binaries are vital sources of various transient processes, including gravitational-wave mergers. However, large uncertainties in the evolution of massive stars, both physical and numerical, present a major challenge to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Poojan Agrawal , Jarrod Hurley , Simon Stevenson , Carl L. Rodriguez , Dorottya Szecsi , Alex Kemp

Using a population synthesis approach, we compute the total merger rate in the local Universe for double neutron stars, double black holes, and black hole -- neutron star binaries. These compact binaries are the prime source candidates for…

Binary evolution is indispensable in stellar evolution to understand the formation and evolution of most peculiar and energetic objects, such as binary compact objects, Type Ia supernovae, X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables, blue…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Hongwei Ge , Ronald F Webbink , Zhanwen Han

We discuss the properties of stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers induced by tidal encounters with a massive BH at galactic centres or potentially in dense star clusters. The tidal disruption of stellar binaries by a massive BH is known to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-31 Joseph John Fernández , Shiho Kobayashi

We evaluate the redshift distribution of binary black hole (BBH), black hole - neutron star binary (BHNS) and binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, exploring the main sources of uncertainty: star formation rate (SFR) density, metallicity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-12 Filippo Santoliquido , Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo , Yann Bouffanais , M. Celeste Artale

The merger of neutron star (NS)-NS binary can form different production of the compact remnant, among which the supramassive NS (SMNS) could create an internal plateau and the followed steep decay marks the collapse of the SMNS. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-06 Yun-Peng Li , Zhi-Lin Chen , Da-Bin Lin , En-Wei Liang

We compare evolutionary predictions of double compact object merger rate densities with initial and forthcoming LIGO/Virgo upper limits. We find that: (i) Due to the cosmological reach of advanced detectors, current conversion methods of…

Observations have shown that the majority of massive stars, progenitors of black holes (BHs), have on average more than one stellar companion. In triple systems, wide inner binaries can be driven to a merger by the third body due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Miguel A. S. Martinez , Carl L. Rodriguez , Giacomo Fragione

We review the formation and evolution of compact binary stars consisting of white dwarfs (WDs), neutron stars (NSs), and black holes (BHs). Mergings of compact binary stars are expected to be the most important sources for the forthcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-07 Konstantin Postnov , Lev Yungelson

[ABRIDGED] We study supermassive black hole binary mergers driven by angular momentum loss to small-scale gas discs. Such binaries form after major galaxy mergers, but their fate is unclear since hardening through stellar scattering becomes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-08 J. Cuadra , P. J. Armitage , R. D. Alexander , M. C. Begelman

We study the dynamical signatures of black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) binary mergers via Lidov-Kozai oscillations induced by tertiary companions in hierarchical triple systems. For each type of binaries (BH-BH and BH-NS), we explore a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Bin Liu , Dong Lai , Yi-Han Wang

Binary population synthesis shows that mass transfer from a giant star to a main-sequence (MS) companion may account for some observed long-orbital period blue stragglers. However, little attention {\bf is paid to this blue straggler…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

The study of massive binary systems has steadily progressed over the past decades, with increasing focus on their evolution, interactions and mergers, driven by improvements in computational modelling and observational techniques. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-05 Aldana Grichener

Galactic binary pulsars with different companion types (OB-star, white dwarf (WD), neutron star (NS), black hole (BH), or planet) assuming various phenomenological distributions for kick velocities of newborn NS are studied. The merging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. M. Lipunov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

Mass transfer in close binaries is often non-conservative and the modeling of this kind of mass transfer is mathematically challenging as in this case due to the loss of mass as well as angular momentum the governing system gets complicated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-26 Prabir Gharami , Koushik Ghosh , Farook Rahaman

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are believed to be the missing link between the supermassive black holes (BHs) found at the centers of massive galaxies and BHs formed through stellar core collapse. One of the proposed mechanisms for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-14 Rujuta A. Purohit , Giacomo Fragione , Frederic A. Rasio , Grayson C. Petter , Ryan C. Hickox

We aim to study the progenitor properties and expected rates of the two lowest-mass binary black hole (BH) mergers, GW 151226 and GW 170608, detected within the first two Advanced LIGO-Virgo runs, in the context of the isolated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Federico García , Adolfo Simaz Bunzel , Sylvain Chaty , Edward Porter , Eric Chassande-Mottin

The recent observation of the GW230529 event indicates that black hole-neutron star binaries can contain low-mass black holes. Since lower mass systems are more favourable for tidal disruption, such events are promising candidates for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-26 Rahime Matur , Ian Hawke , Nils Andersson