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How Massive Single Stars End Their Life
- A. Heger, Chris L. Fryer, S. Woosley, N. Langer, D. Hartmann
- Physics
- 20 December 2002
How massive stars die—what sort of explosion and remnant each produces—depends chiefly on the masses of their helium cores and hydrogen envelopes at death. For single stars, stellar winds are the… Expand
ON THE MAXIMUM MASS OF STELLAR BLACK HOLES
- K. Belczynski, T. Bulik, +4 authors J. Hurley
- Physics
- 17 April 2009
We present the spectrum of compact object masses: neutron stars and black holes (BHs) that originate from single stars in different environments. In particular, we calculate the dependence of maximum… Expand
The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817
A long-standing paradigm in astrophysics is that collisions—or mergers—of two neutron stars form highly relativistic and collimated outflows (jets) that power γ-ray bursts of short (less than two… Expand
A New Look at the Binary Characteristics of Massive Stars
- H. Kobulnicky, Chris L. Fryer, U. Wyoming, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Physics
- 2 May 2006
We constrain the properties of massive binaries by comparing radial velocity data on early-type stars in Cygnus OB2 with the expectations of Monte Carlo models. Our comparisons test several popular… Expand
A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
- B. Abbott, R. Abbott, +1,308 authors M. Serra-Ricart
- Physics, Medicine
- Nature
- 16 October 2017
On 17 August 2017, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors observed the gravitational-wave event GW170817—a strong signal from the merger of a binary neutron-star system. Less than two seconds after… Expand
Theoretical black hole mass distributions
- Chris L. Fryer, V. Kalogera
- Physics
- 16 November 1999
We derive the theoretical distribution function of black hole masses by studying the formation processes of black holes. We use the results of recent two-dimensional simulations of stellar core… Expand
Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914
- B. Abbott, R. Abbott, +1,514 authors S. Rosswog
- Physics
- 26 February 2016
A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015 September 14. The event, initially… Expand
Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova
- P. Evans, S. Cenko, +56 authors A. Tohuvavohu
- Physics, Medicine
- Science
- 16 October 2017
GROWTH observations of GW170817 The gravitational wave event GW170817 was caused by the merger of two neutron stars (see the Introduction by Smith). In three papers, teams associated with the GROWTH… Expand
Formation Rates of Black Hole Accretion Disk Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Chris L. Fryer, S. Woosley, D. Hartmann
- Physics
- 9 April 1999
The cosmological origin of at least an appreciable fraction of classical gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is now supported by redshift measurements for a half-dozen faint host galaxies. Still, the nature of… Expand
The Emergence of a Lanthanide-Rich Kilonova Following the Merger of Two Neutron Stars
We report the discovery and monitoring of the near-infrared counterpart (AT2017gfo) of a binary neutron-star merger event detected as a gravitational wave source by Advanced Laser Interferometer… Expand