English
Related papers

Related papers: Constraining Binary Evolution with Gravitational W…

200 papers

The last decade of observational and theoretical developments in stellar and binary evolution provides an opportunity to incorporate major improvements to the predictions from populations synthesis models. We compute the Galactic merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Michal Dominik , Krzysztof Belczynski , Christopher Fryer , Daniel Holz , Emanuele Berti , Tomasz Bulik , Ilya Mandel , Richard O'Shaughnessy

With its last observing run, the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaboration has detected almost one hundred gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. A common approach to studying the population properties of the observed binaries is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Simone Mastrogiovanni , Astrid Lamberts , Rahul Srinivasan , Tristan Bruel , Nelson Christensen

The stellar population in the Galactic halo is characterised by a large fraction of CEMP stars. Most CEMP stars are enriched in $s$-elements (CEMP-$s$ stars), and some of these are also enriched in $r$-elements (CEMP-$s/r$ stars). One…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 C. Abate , O. R. Pols , R. J. Stancliffe , R. G. Izzard , A. I. Karakas , T. C. Beers , Y. S. Lee

We present in this contribution our set of multiwavelength synthesis models including the evolution of single and binary stars. The main results we have obtained can be summarized as follows: (a) massive close-binary systems will start to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. M. Mas-Hesse , M. Cervino

We present the result of a survey of Monte Carlo simulations of globular clusters hosting two generations of stars including a large (f_b=50%) fraction of primordial binaries in both populations. The dynamical evolution of the two stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 A. Sollima , R. Gratton , S. Lucatello , E. Carretta

In this paper we consider the population of eccentric binaries with a neutron star and a white dwarf that has been revealed in our galaxy in recent years through binary pulsar observations. We apply our statistical analysis method (Kim,…

I review the expected Galactic sources of gravitational waves, concentrating on the low-frequency domain and summarise the current observational and theoretical knowledge we have. A model for the Galactic population of close binaries, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Nelemans

We compare the impacts of uncertainties in both binary population synthesis models and the cosmic star formation history on the predicted rates of Gravitational Wave compact binary merger (GW) events. These uncertainties cause the predicted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Petra N. Tang , J. J. Eldridge , Elizabeth R. Stanway , John C. Bray

The vast majority of binaries containing a compact object and a regular star spend most of their time in a quiescent state where no strong interactions occur between components. Detection of these binaries is extremely challenging and only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Matthew Middleton , Norman Khan , Adam Ingram , Poshak Gandhi , Hugh Dickinson

We performed Population III (Pop III) binary evolution by using population synthesis simulations for seven different models. We found that Pop III binaries tend to be binary black holes (BBHs) with chirp mass $M_{\rm chirp} \sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Tomoya Kinugawa , Takashi Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakano

The first directly observed gravitational wave event, GW150914, featuring the merger of two massive black holes, highlighted the need to determine how these systems of compact remnant binaries are formed. We use the binary population…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Miqaela K. Weller , Jennifer A. Johnson

Knowledge of the binary population in stellar groupings provides important information about the outcome of the star forming process in different environments (see, e.g., Blaauw 1991, and references therein). Binarity is also a key…

We present the results of a survey of N-body simulations aimed at exploring the evolution of compact binaries in multiple-population globular clusters.We show that as a consequence of the initial differences in the structural properties of…

Our uncertainties about binary star systems (and triples and so on) limit our capabilities in literally every single one of the Thematic Areas identified for Astro2020. We need to understand the population statistics of stellar multiplicity…

We perform a hierarchical Bayesian inference to investigate the population properties of the coalescing compact binaries involving at least one neutron star (NS). With the current observation data, we can not rule out either of the Double…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Yin-Jie Li , Shao-Peng Tang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

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

White dwarfs (WDs) are powerful tools to study the evolutionary history of stars and binaries in the Galaxy. But do we understand their multiplicity from a theoretical point of view? This can be tested by a comparison with the sample of WDs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 S. Toonen , M. Hollands , B. T. Gaensicke , T. Boekholt

Using stellar binary population synthesis code we calculate the production rates and lifetimes of several types of possible GRB progenitors. We consider mergers of double neutron stars, black hole neutron stars, black hole white dwarfs and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Krzysztof Belczynski , Tomasz Bulik , Bronislaw Rudak

The origins of merging compact binaries observed by gravitational-wave detectors remains highly uncertain. Several astrophysical channels may contribute to the overall merger rate, with distinct formation processes imprinted on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Jack Heinzel , Matthew Mould , Sofía Álvarez-López , Salvatore Vitale

We use a stellar binary population synthesis code to find the lifetimes and velocities of several types of possible GRB progenitors: double neutron stars, black hole neutron stars, black hole white dwarfs, helium star mergers. Assuming that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomasz Bulik , Krzysztof Belczynski