Weighing stars from birth to death: mass determination methods across the HRD

A Serenelli, A Weiss, C Aerts, GC Angelou… - The Astronomy and …, 2021 - Springer
The mass of a star is the most fundamental parameter for its structure, evolution, and final
fate. It is particularly important for any kind of stellar archaeology and characterization of …

BlackCAT: A catalogue of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray transients

JM Corral-Santana, J Casares, T Munoz-Darias… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Aims. During the last~ 50 years, the population of black hole candidates in X-ray binaries
has increased considerably, with 59 Galactic objects being detected in transient low-mass X …

Modeling dense star clusters in the milky way and beyond with the CMC cluster catalog

K Kremer, SY Claire, NZ Rui… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a set of 148 independent N-body simulations of globular clusters (GCs)
computed using the code CMC (Cluster Monte Carlo). At an age of∼ 10–13 Gyr, the …

Review of scientific topics for the Millimetron space observatory

NS Kardashev, ID Novikov, VN Lukash… - Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews a wide range of questions in astrophysics and cosmology that can be
answered by astronomical observations in the far-IR to millimeter wavelength range and …

Populating the upper black hole mass gap through stellar collisions in young star clusters

K Kremer, M Spera, D Becker… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Theoretical modeling of massive stars predicts a gap in the black hole (BH) mass function
above∼ 40–50 M⊙ for BHs formed through single star evolution, arising from (pulsational) …

A stellar census in globular clusters with MUSE: The contribution of rotation to cluster dynamics studied with 200 000 stars

S Kamann, TO Husser, S Dreizler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This is the first of a series of papers presenting the results from our survey of 25 Galactic
globular clusters with the MUSE integral-field spectrograph. In combination with our …

The dynamical evolution of stellar black holes in globular clusters

M Morscher, B Pattabiraman, C Rodriguez… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Our current understanding of the stellar initial mass function and massive star evolution
suggests that young globular clusters (GCs) may have formed hundreds to thousands of …

Potential kick velocity distribution of black hole X-ray binaries and implications for natal kicks

P Atri, JCA Miller-Jones, A Bahramian… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We use very long baseline interferometry to measure the proper motions of three black hole
X-ray binaries (BHXBs). Using these results together with data from the literature and Gaia …

The mass-loss rates of star clusters with stellar-mass black holes: implications for the globular cluster mass function

M Gieles, OY Gnedin - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Stellar-mass black holes (BHs) can be retained in globular clusters (GCs) until the present.
Simulations of GC evolution find that the relaxation driven mass-loss rate is elevated if BHs …