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Theoretical predictions suggest that very massive stars have the potential to form through multiple collisions and eventually evolve into intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) within Population III star clusters embedded in mini dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Shuai Liu , Long Wang , Yi-Ming Hu , Ataru Tanikawa , Alessandro A. Trani

After the nearly hundred gravitational-wave detections reported by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, the question of the cosmological origin of merging binary black holes (BBHs) remains open. The two main formation channels generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-07 Tristan Bruel , Carl L. Rodriguez , Astrid Lamberts , Michael Y. Grudic , Zachary Hafen , Robert Feldmann

We consider the formation of binary black hole mergers through the evolution of field massive triple stars. In this scenario, favorable conditions for the inspiral of a black hole binary are initiated by its gravitational interaction with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Fabio Antonini , Silvia Toonen , Adrian S. Hamers

Binary black hole (BBH) systems detected via gravitational-wave (GW) emission are a recently opened astrophysical frontier with many unknowns and uncertainties. Accurate reconstruction of the binary distribution with as few assumptions as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-22 Jam Sadiq , Thomas Dent , Mark Gieles

Massive black hole (MBH) binaries, formed as a result of galaxy mergers, are expected to harden by dynamical friction and three-body stellar scatterings, until emission of gravitational waves (GWs) leads to their final coalescence.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Elisa Bortolas , Alessia Gualandris , Massimo Dotti , Justin I. Read

Anticipating the kinematic constraints from the Gaia mission, we perform an extensive numerical study of the evolution of massive binary systems to predict the peculiar velocities that stars obtain when their companion collapses and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 M. Renzo , E. Zapartas , S. E. de Mink , Y. Götberg , S. Justham , R. J. Farmer , R. G. Izzard , S. Toonen , H. Sana

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

In paper I of this series we showed that a large percentage of the binary black hole (BBH) mergers that form through dynamical interactions in globular clusters will have significant eccentricity in the ~10^{-3}-10^{-1} Hz LISA band. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-19 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Johan Samsing

Fomalhaut is a triple system, with all components widely separated (~1E5 au). Such widely separated binaries are thought to form during cluster dissolution, but that process is unlikely to form such a triple system. We explore an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-20 Andrew Shannon , Cathie Clarke , Mark Wyatt

Hierarchical triple evolution provides a promising alternative to isolated binary formation models for black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs) with low-mass stellar companions. To search for tertiaries, we perform deep, adaptive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pranav Nagarajan , Kareem El-Badry , Aniket Sanghi

We have investigated the effect of the number of primordial binaries on the relationship between the total number of detected binaries within globular cluster and its collision rate. We have used simulated populations of binary stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Gendre

Neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes are the remnants of massive stars, which ended their lives in supernova explosions. These exotic objects can only be studied in relatively rare cases. If they are interacting with close companions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Stephan Geier , Uli Heber , Heinz Edelmann , Thomas Kupfer , Ralf Napiwotzki , Philipp Podsiadlowski

Observations found that star clusters contain a large fraction of binaries. Tight binaries are an important heating source that influences the long-term dynamical evolution of star clusters. However, due to the limitation of $N$-body tool,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-12 Long Wang , Ataru Tanikawa , Michiko S. Fujii

Compact object clusters are likely to exist in the centre of some galaxies because of mass segregation. The high densities and velocities reached in them deserves a better understanding. The formation of binaries and their subsequent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gabor Kupi , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Rainer Spurzem

We present a statistical approximate solution of the bound, non-hierarchical three-body problem, and extend it to a general analysis of encounters between hard binary systems and single stars. Any such encounter terminates when one of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-28 Yonadav Barry Ginat , Hagai B. Perets

When binary black holes form in the field, it is expected that their orbits typically circularize before coalescence. In galactic nuclei and globular clusters, binary black holes can form dynamically. Recent results suggest that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-13 Marcus E. Lower , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky , Rory Smith

A large number of mergers of binary black holes (BHs) have been discovered by gravitational wave observations since the first detection of gravitational waves 2015. Binary BH mergers are the loudest events in the universe, however their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-18 Ataru Tanikawa

We propose a formation pathway linking black holes (BHs) observed in gravitational-wave (GW) mergers, wide BH-stellar systems uncovered by Gaia, and accreting low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). In this scenario, a stellar-mass BH binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Smadar Naoz , Zoltan Haiman , Eliot Quataert , Liz Holzknecht

The binary black holes (BBHs) formed near the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the galactic nuclei would undergo eccentricity excitation due to the gravitational perturbations from the SMBH and therefore merger more efficiently. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Yun Fang , Qing-Guo Huang

Asteroid binaries found amongst the Near-Earth objects are believed to have formed from rotational fission. In this paper, we aim to study the dynamical evolution of asteroid systems the moment after fission. The initial condition is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Alex Ho , Margrethe Wold , Mohammad Poursina , John T. Conway