Host galaxy properties of mergers of stellar binary black holes and their implications for advanced LIGO gravitational wave sources

The cosmic merger rate of stellar black hole binaries from the Illustris simulation

(2017) Michela Mapelli et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Very massive stars, pair-instability supernovae and intermediate-mass black holes with the sevn code

(2017) Mario Spera et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The formation of stellar black holes

(2017) Félix Mirabel   NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS

GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

(2017) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

(2017) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

(2017) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   Living Reviews in Relativity

The effects of host galaxy properties on merging compact binaries detectable by LIGO

(2016) R. O'Shaughnessy et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Massive black hole binaries from runaway collisions: the impact of metallicity

(2016) Michela Mapelli   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Metallicity-constrained merger rates of binary black holes and the stochastic gravitational wave background

(2016) Irina Dvorkin 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

The dragon simulations: globular cluster evolution with a million stars

(2016) Long Wang 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

GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes

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

Primordial Black Hole Scenario for the Gravitational-Wave Event GW150914

(2016) Misao Sasaki et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

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

The mass spectrum of compact remnants from the parsec stellar evolution tracks

(2015) Mario Spera et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Estimates of black hole natal kick velocities from observations of low-mass X-ray binaries

(2015) Ilya Mandel   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Binary Black Hole Mergers from Globular Clusters: Implications for Advanced LIGO

(2015) Carl L. Rodriguez et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cosmic Star-Formation History

(2014) Piero Madau et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

(2014) Mark Vogelsberger et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The EAGLE project: simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments

(2014) Joop Schaye et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE ROTATION RATES OF MASSIVE STARS: THE ROLE OF BINARY INTERACTION THROUGH TIDES, MASS TRANSFER, AND MERGERS

(2013) S. E. de Mink et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DOUBLE COMPACT OBJECTS. II. COSMOLOGICAL MERGER RATES

(2013) Michal Dominik et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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

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

Investigating stellar-mass black hole kicks

(2012) Serena Repetto et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE MASS DISTRIBUTION OF STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES

(2011) Will M. Farr et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

(2011) Qi Guo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

BINARY COMPACT OBJECT COALESCENCE RATES: THE ROLE OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES

(2010) R. O'Shaughnessy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE BLACK HOLE MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE GALAXY

(2010) Feryal Özel et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Resolving cosmic structure formation with the Millennium-II Simulation

(2009) Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Constraining Population Synthesis Models via Empirical Binary Compact Object Merger and Supernova Rates

(2008) R. O’Shaughnessy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL