The Uncertain Future of Massive Binaries Obscures the Origin of LIGO/Virgo Sources

Observing Intermediate-mass Black Holes and the Upper Stellar-mass gap with LIGO and Virgo

(2022) Ajit Kumar Mehta et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Chirp mass-distance distributions of the sources of gravitational waves

(2021) M Ossowski   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The cosmic merger rate density of compact objects: impact of star formation, metallicity, initial mass function, and binary evolution

(2021) Filippo Santoliquido et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The excess of cool supergiants from contemporary stellar evolution models defies the metallicity-independent Humphreys-Davidson limit

(2021) Avishai Gilkis et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Convective core entrainment in 1D main sequence stellar models

(2021) L J A Scott et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2021) James C. A. Miller-Jones et al.   SCIENCE

The role of mass transfer and common envelope evolution in the formation of merging binary black holes

(2021) P. Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring. V. R 144: A wind-eclipsing binary with a total mass > 140 Msun

(2021) T. Shenar et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

One Channel to Rule Them All? Constraining the Origins of Binary Black Holes Using Multiple Formation Pathways

(2021) Michael Zevin et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

(2021) R. Abbott et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Modelling neutron star–black hole binaries: future pulsar surveys and gravitational wave detectors

(2021) Debatri Chattopadhyay et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Maximum black hole mass across cosmic time

(2021) Jorick S Vink et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Impact of common envelope development criteria on the formation of LIGO/Virgo sources

(2021) A. Olejak et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Evolution of Wolf–Rayet stars as black hole progenitors

(2021) E R Higgins et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run

(2021) R. Abbott et al.   Physical Review X

Population Synthesis of Black Hole Binaries with Compact Star Companions

(2021) Yong Shao et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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

Mass loss and the Eddington parameter: a new mass-loss recipe for hot and massive stars

(2020) Joachim M Bestenlehner   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Massive donors in interacting binaries: effect of metallicity

(2020) J. Klencki et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

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

Synthetic catalog of black holes in the Milky Way

(2020) A Olejak et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150  M⊙

(2020) R. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

It has to be cool: supergiant progenitors of binary black hole mergers from common-envelope evolution

(2020) J. Klencki et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Formation of GW190521 from stellar evolution: the impact of the hydrogen-rich envelope, dredge-up, and 12C(α, γ)16O rate on the pair-instability black hole mass gap

(2020) Guglielmo Costa et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known

(2019) Katie A Tehrani et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Slowing the Spins of Stellar Cores

(2019) Jim Fuller et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Merging black hole binaries with the SEVN code

(2019) Mario Spera et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Constraining mixing in massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

(2019) A. Schootemeijer et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

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

The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring

(2019) L. Mahy et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The Arches cluster revisited. II. A massive eclipsing spectroscopic binary in the Arches cluster

(2018) M. E. Lohr et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The spin of the second-born black hole in coalescing binary black holes

(2018) Y. Qin et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The Arches cluster revisited. II. A massive eclipsing spectroscopic binary in the Arches cluster

(2018) M. E. Lohr et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The spin of the second-born black hole in coalescing binary black holes

(2018) Y. Qin 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 influence of the distribution of cosmic star formation at different metallicities on the properties of merging double compact objects

(2018) Martyna Chruslinska et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The 155-day X-ray cycle of the very massive Wolf–Rayet star Melnick 34 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

(2017) A M T Pollock et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Forming short-period Wolf–Rayet X-ray binaries and double black holes through stable mass transfer

(2017) E. P. J. van den Heuvel 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

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

(2017) Simon Stevenson et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution of the stellar-merger red nova V1309 Scorpii: Spectral energy distribution analysis

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

Stability of mass transfer from massive giants: double black hole binary formation and ultraluminous X-ray sources

(2016) K. Pavlovskii et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The first gravitational-wave source from the isolated evolution of two stars in the 40–100 solar mass range

(2016) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   NATURE

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Evolution of the stellar-merger red nova V1309 Scorpii: Spectral energy distribution analysis

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

Post-outburst spectra of a stellar-merger remnant of V1309 Scorpii: from a twin of V838 Monocerotis to a clone of V4332 Sagittarii

(2015) T. Kamiński et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Mass transfer from giant donors

(2015) K. Pavlovskii et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Post-outburst spectra of a stellar-merger remnant of V1309 Scorpii: from a twin of V838 Monocerotis to a clone of V4332 Sagittarii

(2015) T. Kamiński et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Mass Loss: Its Effect on the Evolution and Fate of High-Mass Stars

(2014) Nathan Smith   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The evolution of rotating very massive stars with LMC composition

(2014) K. Köhler et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of Galactic massive stars

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

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

(2014) J. M. Bestenlehner 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

Common envelope evolution: where we stand and how we can move forward

(2013) N. Ivanova et al.   ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW

DOUBLE COMPACT OBJECTS. II. COSMOLOGICAL MERGER RATES

(2013) Michal Dominik et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): PLANETS, OSCILLATIONS, ROTATION, AND MASSIVE STARS

(2013) Bill Paxton et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

Structure and evolution of high-mass stellar mergers

(2013) Evert Glebbeek et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Evolution and fate of very massive stars

(2013) Norhasliza Yusof et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Identification of the Long-Sought Common-Envelope Events

(2013) N. Ivanova et al.   SCIENCE

Presupernova Evolution of Massive Single and Binary Stars

(2012) N. Langer   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

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

MISSING BLACK HOLES UNVEIL THE SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION MECHANISM

(2012) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DOUBLE COMPACT OBJECTS. I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMMON ENVELOPE ON MERGER RATES

(2012) Michal Dominik et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars

(2012) H. Sana et al.   SCIENCE

Rotating massive main-sequence stars

(2011) I. Brott et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Wind modelling of very massive stars up to 300 solar masses

(2011) Jorick S. Vink et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The nature of B supergiants: clues from a steep drop in rotation rates at 22 000 K

(2010) Jorick S. Vink et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

ERRATUM: “ON THE BINDING ENERGY PARAMETER λ OF COMMON ENVELOPE EVOLUTION” (2010, ApJ, 716, 114)

(2010) Xiao-Jie Xu et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON THE MAXIMUM MASS OF STELLAR BLACK HOLES

(2010) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE EFFECT OF METALLICITY ON THE DETECTION PROSPECTS FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

(2010) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA)

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

Mass loss from late-type WN stars and its Z-dependence

(2008) G. Gräfener et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Compact Object Modeling with the StarTrack Population Synthesis Code

(2007) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES