New insights into the evolution of massive stars and their effects on our understanding of early galaxies

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The observable characteristics and subsequent evolution of young stellar populations is
dominated by their massive stars. As our understanding of those massive stars and the …

Neutrinos and nucleosynthesis of elements

T Fischer, G Guo, K Langanke… - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Neutrinos are known to play important roles in many astrophysical scenarios from the early
period of the big bang to current stellar evolution being a unique messenger of the fusion …

Posydon: A general-purpose population synthesis code with detailed binary-evolution simulations

T Fragos, JJ Andrews, SS Bavera… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Most massive stars are members of a binary or a higher-order stellar system, where the
presence of a binary companion can decisively alter their evolution via binary interactions …

Three-dimensional simulation of a core-collapse supernova for a binary star progenitor of SN 1987A

K Nakamura, T Takiwaki, K Kotake - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present results from a self-consistent, non-rotating core-collapse supernova simulation
in three spatial dimensions using a binary evolution progenitor model of SN 1987A. This …

The Effect of Supernova Convection On Neutron Star and Black Hole Masses

CL Fryer, A Olejak, K Belczynski - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Our understanding of the convective-engine paradigm driving core-collapse supernovae
has been used for two decades to predict the remnant mass distribution from stellar …

Understanding the high-mass binary black hole population from stable mass transfer and super-Eddington accretion in bpass

MM Briel, HF Stevance… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With the remarkable success of the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra consortium in detecting binary black
hole mergers, it has become possible to use the population properties to constrain our …

Bimodal Black Hole Mass Distribution and Chirp Masses of Binary Black Hole Mergers

FRN Schneider, P Podsiadlowski… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In binary black hole mergers from isolated binary-star evolution, both black holes are from
progenitor stars that have lost their hydrogen-rich envelopes by binary mass transfer …

The role of supernova convection for the lower mass gap in the isolated binary formation of gravitational wave sources

A Olejak, CL Fryer, K Belczynski… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the astrophysical phenomena involving compact objects requires an insight
about the engine behind the core-collapse supernovae (SNe) and the fate of the stellar …

Rejuvenated accretors have less bound envelopes: Impact of Roche lobe overflow on subsequent common envelope events

M Renzo, E Zapartas, S Justham… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Common envelope (CE) evolution is an outstanding open problem in stellar evolution,
critical to the formation of compact binaries including gravitational-wave sources. In the" …

Evolution of accretor stars in massive binaries: Broader implications from modeling ζ ophiuchi

M Renzo, Y Götberg - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Most massive stars are born in binaries close enough for mass transfer episodes. These
modify the appearance, structure, and future evolution of both stars. We compute the …