The Impact of Pair-instability Mass Loss on the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution

```@article{Stevenson2019TheIO,
title={The Impact of Pair-instability Mass Loss on the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution},
author={S. Stevenson and Matthew Sampson and J. Powell and A. Vigna-G{\'o}mez and C. Neijssel and D. Sz'ecsi and I. Mandel},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
year={2019},
volume={882},
pages={121}
}```
• S. Stevenson, +4 authors I. Mandel
• Published 2019
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal
• A population of binary black hole mergers has now been observed in gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. The masses of these black holes appear to show evidence for a pile-up between \$30\$--\$45\$ \$M_\odot\$ and a cut-off above \$\sim 45\$ \$M_\odot\$. One possible explanation for such a pile-up and subsequent cut-off are pulsational pair-instability supernovae (PPISNe) and pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) in massive stars. We investigate the plausibility of this explanation in the context… CONTINUE READING
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