Cygnus X-1 contains a 21–solar mass black hole—Implications for massive star winds

The origin of spin in binary black holes: Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO

(2020) S. S. Bavera et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The Gaia DR2 parallax zero point: Hierarchical modeling of red clump stars

(2020) Victor C Chan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates for LIGO/Virgo binary black holes

(2020) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Weighing in on black hole binaries with BPASS: LB-1 does not contain a 70M⊙ black hole

(2020) J J Eldridge et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Kinematic study of the association Cyg OB3 with Gaia DR2

(2020) Anjali Rao et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1

(2020) Michael Abdul-Masih et al.   NATURE

The “hidden” companion in LB-1 unveiled by spectral disentangling

(2020) T. Shenar et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The third realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame by very long baseline interferometry

(2020) P. Charlot et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Radio Frequency Timing Analysis of the Compact Jet in the Black Hole X-ray Binary Cygnus X-1

(2019) A J Tetarenko et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Metallicity of stars formed throughout the cosmic history based on the observational properties of star forming galaxies

(2019) Martyna Chruslinska et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers

(2019) Coenraad J Neijssel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A wide star–black-hole binary system from radial-velocity measurements

(2019) Jifeng Liu et al.   NATURE

The Convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods: From the Metropolis Method to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

(2018) Michael Betancourt   ANNALEN DER PHYSIK

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

(2018) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Accuracy of inference on the physics of binary evolution from gravitational-wave observations

(2018) Jim W Barrett et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

(2018) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars

(2018) Alejandro Vigna-Gómez et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The expected spins of gravitational wave sources with isolated field binary progenitors

(2017) Matias Zaldarriaga et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Distinguishing spin-aligned and isotropic black hole populations with gravitational waves

(2017) Will M. Farr et al.   NATURE

Energetic eruptions leading to a peculiar hydrogen-rich explosion of a massive star

(2017) Iair Arcavi et al.   NATURE

Mass loss and stellar superwinds

(2017) Jorick S. Vink   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Formation of the first three gravitational-wave observations through isolated binary evolution

(2017) Simon Stevenson et al.   Nature Communications

Ionizing spectra of stars that lose their envelope through interaction with a binary companion: role of metallicity

(2017) Y. Götberg et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Systematic survey of the effects of wind mass loss algorithms on the evolution of single massive stars

(2017) M. Renzo et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Revealing the broad iron Kαline in Cygnus X-1 through simultaneousXMM-Newton, RXTE, and INTEGRAL observations

(2016) Refiz Duro et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

A new route towards merging massive black holes

(2016) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Gamma rays detected from Cygnus X-1 with likely jet origin

(2016) R. Zanin et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

GW150914: spin-based constraints on the merger time of the progenitor system

(2016) Doron Kushnir et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in short-period stellar binaries

(2016) Ilya Mandel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Revealing the broad iron Kαline in Cygnus X-1 through simultaneousXMM-Newton, RXTE, and INTEGRAL observations

(2016) Refiz Duro et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

A new route towards merging massive black holes

(2016) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Gamma rays detected from Cygnus X-1 with likely jet origin

(2016) R. Zanin et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Energy-dependent orbital phases in NGC 300 X-1

(2015) B. Binder et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The masses and spins of neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes

(2015) M. Coleman Miller et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Long term variability of Cygnus X-1

(2014) V. Grinberg et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Massive double compact object mergers: gravitational wave sources and r-process element production sites

(2014) N. Mennekens et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

CONFIRMATION VIA THE CONTINUUM-FITTING METHOD THAT THE SPIN OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1 IS EXTREME

(2014) Lijun Gou et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE REFLECTION COMPONENT FROM CYGNUS X-1 IN THE SOFT STATE MEASURED BYNuSTARANDSUZAKU

(2013) John A. Tomsick et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

(2013) J. Casares et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Black Hole Spin via Continuum Fitting and the Role of Spin in Powering Transient Jets

(2013) Jeffrey E. McClintock et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Analysis of optical spectra of V1357 Cyg≡Cyg X-1

(2012) V. V. Shimanskii et al.   ASTRONOMY REPORTS

COMPACT REMNANT MASS FUNCTION: DEPENDENCE ON THE EXPLOSION MECHANISM AND METALLICITY

(2012) Chris L. Fryer et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

UNDERSTANDING COMPACT OBJECT FORMATION AND NATAL KICKS. III. THE CASE OF CYGNUS X-1

(2012) Tsing-Wai Wong et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

parsec: stellar tracks and isochrones with the PAdova and TRieste Stellar Evolution Code

(2012) Alessandro Bressan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A DEEPCHANDRAOBSERVATION OF THE WOLF-RAYET + BLACK HOLE BINARY NGC 300 X-1

(2011) B. Binder et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE EXTREME SPIN OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1

(2011) Lijun Gou et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE TRIGONOMETRIC PARALLAX OF CYGNUS X-1

(2011) Mark J. Reid et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE MASS OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1

(2011) Jerome A. Orosz et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

On the origin of black hole spin in high-mass black hole binaries: Cygnus X-1

(2011) Magnus Axelsson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

DiFX-2: A More Flexible, Efficient, Robust, and Powerful Software Correlator

(2011) A. T. Deller et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

ON THE MAXIMUM MASS OF STELLAR BLACK HOLES

(2010) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA)

(2010) Bill Paxton et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

Formation of the black-hole binary M33 X-7 through mass exchange in a tight massive system

(2010) Francesca Valsecchi et al.   NATURE

MEASURING BLACK HOLE SPIN VIA THE X-RAY CONTINUUM-FITTING METHOD: BEYOND THE THERMAL DOMINANT STATE

(2009) James F. Steiner et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRUM AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MASS DONOR STAR IN HD 226868 = Cygnus X-1

(2009) S. M. Caballero-Nieves et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mass loss from hot massive stars

(2008) Joachim Puls et al.   ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW

On IC 10 X-1, the Most Massive Known Stellar-Mass Black Hole

(2008) Jeffrey M. Silverman et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL