Observability of Isolated Stellar-mass Black Holes
The Astrophysical Journal LettersStellar-mass black holes (BHs) represent the natural end states of massive stars. It is estimated that 10 ^8 stellar-mass BHs are present in the Milky Way galaxy, a significant fraction of which are expected to be isolated.
Lena Murchikova, Kailash C. Sahu
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THE CLOSE STELLAR COMPANIONS TO INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 When embedded in dense cluster cores, intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) acquire close stellar or stellar-remnant companions. These companions are not only gravitationally bound, but also tend to hierarchically isolate from other cluster stars through
M. MacLeod, M. Trenti, E. Ramirez-Ruiz
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Observable Signature of Merging Stellar-mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The origin of stellar-mass black hole mergers discovered through gravitational waves is being widely debated. Mergers in the disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a promising source of origin, with possible observational clues in the ...
H. Tagawa +4 more
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Tidal Disruption on Stellar-mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can funnel stars and stellar remnants from the vicinity of the galactic center into the inner plane of the AGN disk. Stars reaching this inner region can be tidally disrupted by the stellar-mass black holes in the disk. Such
Y. Yang +7 more
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Mergers as a probe of particle dark matter
SciPost Physics Proceedings, 2023 Black holes below Chandrasekhar mass limit (1.4 $M_{\odot}$) can not be produced via any standard stellar evolution. Recently, gravitational wave experiments have also discovered unusually low mass black holes whose origin is yet to be known.
Anupam Ray
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Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters – IV. Updated stellar-evolutionary and black hole spin models and comparisons with the LIGO-Virgo O1/O2 merger-event data [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 I present a set of long-term, direct, relativistic many-body computations of model dense stellar clusters with up-to-date stellar-evolutionary, supernova (SN), and remnant natal-kick models, including pair instability and pulsation pair instability ...
S. Banerjee
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Constraining High-redshift Stellar-mass Primordial Black Holes with Next-generation Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022 The possible existence of primordial black holes in the stellar-mass window has received considerable attention because their mergers may contribute to current and future gravitational-wave detections. Primordial black hole mergers, together with mergers
K. Ng +5 more
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Investigating stellar-mass black hole kicks [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012 We investigate whether stellar-mass black holes have to receive natal kicks in order to explain the observed distribution of low-mass X-ray binaries containing black holes within our Galaxy. Such binaries are the product of binary evolution, where the massive primary has exploded forming a stellar-mass black hole, probably after a common envelope phase
Serena Repetto +2 more
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Ram-pressure Stripping of a Kicked Hill Sphere: Prompt Electromagnetic Emission from the Merger of Stellar Mass Black Holes in an AGN Accretion Disk [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2019 Accretion disks around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are promising sites for stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers due to mass segregation and merger acceleration by disk gas torques. Here we show that a gravitational-wave (GW) kick at BH merger causes
B. McKernan +14 more
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AN ANOMALOUS QUIESCENT STELLAR MASS BLACK HOLE [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 5 pages, 4 figures, formatted using emulateapj.cls.
Reynolds, Mark T., Miller, Jon M.
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