The first stars: formation, properties, and impact

RS Klessen, SCO Glover - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The first generation of stars, often called Population III (or Pop III), form from metal-free
primordial gas at redshifts z∼ 30 and below. They dominate the cosmic star-formation …

Intermediate-mass black holes

JE Greene, J Strader, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We describe ongoing searches for intermediate-mass black holes with M BH≈ 10–105 M⊙.
We review a range of search mechanisms, both dynamical and those that rely on accretion …

New binary black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3a data

S Olsen, T Venumadhav, J Mushkin, J Roulet, B Zackay… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We report the detection of ten new binary black hole (BBH) mergers in the publicly released
data from the first half of the third observing run (O3a) of advanced LIGO and advanced …

[PDF][PDF] VU Research Portal

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - PHYSICAL REVIEW D …, 2021 - research.vu.nl
The Advanced LIGO [1] and Advanced Virgo [2] detectors have made numerous detections
of gravitational waves (GWs), to date consisting of short-duration (transient) GWs emitted …

Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November
and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Pulsational pair-instability supernovae

SE Woosley - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The final evolution of stars in the mass range 70–140${\text {}}{M} _ {\odot} $ is explored.
Depending upon their mass loss history and rotation rates, these stars will end their lives as …

Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M o˙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521

LIGO Scientific Collaboration… - Astrophysical …, 2020 - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
The gravitational-wave signal GW190521 is consistent with a binary black hole (BBH)
merger source at redshift 0.8 with unusually high component masses, 85-14+ 21 M o and 66 …

Compact object mergers: exploring uncertainties from stellar and binary evolution with sevn

G Iorio, M Mapelli, G Costa, M Spera… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Population-synthesis codes are an unique tool to explore the parameter space of massive
binary star evolution and binary compact object (BCO) formation. Most population-synthesis …