Search Results - "de Mink, S"
-
1
MERGER RATES OF DOUBLE NEUTRON STARS AND STELLAR ORIGIN BLACK HOLES: THE IMPACT OF INITIAL CONDITIONS ON BINARY EVOLUTION PREDICTIONS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-11-2015)“…ABSTRACT The initial mass function (IMF), binary fraction, and distributions of binary parameters (mass ratios, separations, and eccentricities) are…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
2
Mind the Gap: The Location of the Lower Edge of the Pair-instability Supernova Black Hole Mass Gap
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-12-2019)“…Detections of gravitational waves are now starting to probe the mass distribution of stellar mass black holes (BHs). Robust predictions from stellar models are…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
3
Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (27-07-2012)“…The presence of a nearby companion alters the evolution of massive stars in binary systems, leading to phenomena such as stellar mergers, x-ray binaries, and…”
Get full text
Journal Article Web Resource -
4
The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2022)“…Abstract Gravitational-wave detectors are starting to reveal the redshift evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) merger rate, R BBH ( z ). We make…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
5
Cosmic rates of black hole mergers and pair-instability supernovae from chemically homogeneous binary evolution
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2020)“…ABSTRACT During the first three observing runs of the Advanced gravitational-wave detector network, the LIGO/Virgo collaboration detected several black hole…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
6
Sensitivity of the lower edge of the pair-instability black hole mass gap to the treatment of time-dependent convection
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2020)“…ABSTRACT Gravitational-wave detections are now probing the black hole (BH) mass distribution, including the predicted pair-instability mass gap. These data…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
7
THE ROTATION RATES OF MASSIVE STARS: THE ROLE OF BINARY INTERACTION THROUGH TIDES, MASS TRANSFER, AND MERGERS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2013)“…Rotation is thought to be a major factor in the evolution of massive stars-especially at low metallicity-with consequences for their chemical yields, ionizing…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
8
The effect of stellar rotation on colour–magnitude diagrams: on the apparent presence of multiple populations in intermediate age stellar clusters
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-09-2009)“…A significant number of intermediate age clusters (1–2 Gyr) in the Magellanic Clouds appear to have multiple stellar populations within them, derived from…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
9
THE INCIDENCE OF STELLAR MERGERS AND MASS GAINERS AMONG MASSIVE STARS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-02-2014)“…Because the majority of massive stars are born as members of close binary systems, populations of massive main-sequence stars contain stellar mergers and…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
10
Predicting the Presence of Companions for Stripped-envelope Supernovae: The Case of the Broad-lined Type Ic SN 2002ap
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-06-2017)“…Many young, massive stars are found in close binaries. Using population synthesis simulations we predict the likelihood of a companion star being present when…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
11
EVOLUTION OF MASS FUNCTIONS OF COEVAL STARS THROUGH WIND-MASS LOSS AND BINARY INTERACTIONS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2015)“…ABSTRACT Accurate determinations of stellar mass functions and ages of stellar populations are crucial to much of astrophysics. We analyze the evolution of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
12
Polluting the Pair-instability Mass Gap for Binary Black Holes through Super-Eddington Accretion in Isolated Binaries
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2020)“…The theory for single stellar evolution predicts a gap in the mass distribution of black holes (BHs) between approximately 45 and 130 , the so-called…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
13
An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-01-2018)“…The 30 Doradus star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby analog of large star-formation events in the distant universe. We determined the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
14
JWST/NIRCam Probes Young Star Clusters in the Reionization Era Sunrise Arc
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2023)“…Abstract Star cluster formation in the early universe and its contribution to reionization remains largely unconstrained to date. Here we present JWST/NIRCam…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
15
Nucleosynthesis of Binary-stripped Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2023)“…Abstract The cosmic origin of the elements, the fundamental chemical building blocks of the universe, is still uncertain. Binary interactions play a key role…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
16
Stellar Properties of Observed Stars Stripped in Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract Massive stars (∼8–25 M ⊙ ) stripped of their hydrogen-rich envelopes via binary interaction are thought to be the main progenitors for merging neutron…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
17
The Locations of Features in the Mass Distribution of Merging Binary Black Holes Are Robust against Uncertainties in the Metallicity-dependent Cosmic Star Formation History
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2023)“…Abstract New observational facilities are probing astrophysical transients such as stellar explosions and gravitational-wave sources at ever-increasing…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
18
Solar Evolution Models with a Central Black Hole
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2023)“…Abstract Hawking proposed that the Sun may harbor a primordial black hole (BH) whose accretion supplies some of the solar luminosity. Such an object would have…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
19
Investigating the Chemically Homogeneous Evolution Channel and Its Role in the Formation of the Enigmatic Binary Black Hole Progenitor Candidate HD 5980
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2024)“…Abstract Chemically homogeneous evolution (CHE) is a promising channel for forming massive binary black holes. The enigmatic, massive Wolf–Rayet binary HD 5980…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
20
Discovery of a magnetic field in the rapidly rotating O-type secondary of the colliding-wind binary HD 47129 (Plaskett's star)
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-01-2013)“…We report the detection of a strong, organized magnetic field in the secondary component of the massive O8III/I+O7.5V/III double-lined spectroscopic binary…”
Get full text
Journal Article Web Resource