Massive double compact object mergers: gravitational wave sources and r-process element production sites

By N. Mennekens, D. Vanbeveren. 2013

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With our galactic evolutionary code that contains a detailed intermediate-mass and massive binary population model, we study the temporal evolution of the galactic population of double neutron star binaries, mixed systems with a neutron star and black hole component, and double black hole binaries. We computed the merger rates of these relativistic binaries and translate them into LIGO II detection rates. We demonstrate that accounting for the uncertainties in the relation “initial mass-final mass” predicted by massive close binary evolution and due to the possible effect of large stellar wind mass loss during the luminous blue variable phase of a star

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Double neutron stars: merger rates revisited (2017, methodology): “Mennekens & Vanbeveren (2014) and Chruslinska et al. (2017) also distinguish the formation channel involving ECS/AIC and modify the assumption in which it leads to no natal kick.”
The progenitors of compact-object binaries: impact of metallicity, common envelope and natal kicks (2018, background): “…Portegies Zwart & Yungelson 1998; Portegies Zwart & McMillan 2000; Belczynski et al. 2007; Bogomazov et al. 2007; Dominik et al. 2012, 2013, 2015; Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014; Tauris et al. 2015, 2017; de Mink & Belczynski 2015; de Mink & Mandel 2016; Marchant et al. 2016; Chruslinska et al.…”
Progenitors of gravitational wave mergers: binary evolution with the stellar grid-based code ComBinE (2018, unknown): “Examples include Bloom et al. (1999); Belczynski et al. (2002); Voss & Tauris (2003); Belczynski et al. (2008); Dominik et al. (2012); Mennekens & Vanbeveren (2014); Belczynski et al. (2016); Eldridge & Stanway (2016); Stevenson et al. (2017a); Chruslinska et al. (2018); Vigna-Gómez et al. (2018).”
DOUBLE COMPACT OBJECTS. III. GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTION RATES (2015, unknown): “It The Astrophysical Journal, 806:263 (18pp), 2015 June 20 Dominik et al. seems that the change in the assumptions underlying the initial–final mass relation may yield no BH–BHs (Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014) or numerous BH–BH systems (Voss & Tauris 2003a; Belczynski et al. 2010; Dominik et al. 2012,”
Rates of compact object coalescences (2021, background): “Signatures of chemical enrichment associated with binary neutron star mergers, particularly the evolution of r-process nucleosynthesis elements, could serve as a useful constraint on the binary neutron star merger rate (Mennekens and Vanbeveren, 2014; Hotokezaka et al., 2015; Beniamini et al., 2016)”
The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers (2019, background): “While we expect that a finer metallicity grid or interpolation between metallicities would lead to a smoother chirp mass distribution, this again highlights the importance of highly uncertain LBV winds for these predictions (Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014).”
The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers (2016, result): “Subsequently it was shown that BH-BH merger formation in the Galactic environment, with its high metallicity, leads to suppression of BH-BH merger formation (Belczynski et al. 2007; Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014), a finding that was not encountered in previous studies.”
The Origin of r-process Elements in the Milky Way (2017, background): “Population Synthesis Population synthesis models predict NS-NS merger rates for stellar populations (e.g., Fryer et al. 1999; Voss & Tauris 2003; Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014; Dominik et al. 2012; Belczynski et al. 2016a; Chruslinska et al. 2017).”
Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (2018, background): “…& Brown 1998; Portegies Zwart & Yungelson 1998; Belczynski et al. 2002, 2007, 2008, 2014; Voss & Tauris 2003; Dewi et al. 2006; Dominik et al. 2013; Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014; Spera et al. 2015; Eldridge & Stanway 2016; Mapelli et al. 2017; Stevenson et al. 2017b; Tauris et al. 2017; Chruslinska…”
COMPACT BINARY MERGER RATES: COMPARISON WITH LIGO/VIRGO UPPER LIMITS (2015, methodology): “Mennekens & Vanbeveren (2014) claim that the mass loss for BH progenitors may be so intensive (especially during the LBV phase) that it bars BH-BH formation.”
ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914 (2016, background): “The existence of GW150914 shows that BBH mergers occur in nature, and therefore models that do not predict their existence within a Hubble time through any formation channel are excluded(e.g., certain models in Nelemans et al. 2001; Belczynski et al. 2002, 2007; Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014).”
Merging black holes in young star clusters (2019, background): “…al. 2004, 2005; Belczynski et al. 2007, 2008; Bogomazov et al. 2007; Moody & Sigurdsson 2009; Dominik et al. 2012, 2013, 2015; Mapelli et al. 2013; Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014; Tauris et al. 2015, 2017; de Mink & Belczynski 2015; de Mink & Mandel 2016; Marchant et al. 2016; Belczynski et al.…”
Merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in short-period stellar binaries (2015, background): “…(2004); Grishchuk et al. (2001); Nelemans (2003); Voss & Tauris (2003); Pfahl et al. (2005); Dewi et al. (2006); O’Shaughnessy et al. (2008); Mennekens & Vanbeveren (2014); Dominik et al. (2015); de Mink & Belczynski (2015) (there is also an independent dynamical formation channel in dense…”
THE DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF STELLAR BLACK HOLES IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS (2014, result): “This is comparable to the “realistic” merger rate from primordial binaries in galactic fields in Abadie et al. (2010), however other more recent studies have predicted both higher (Dominik et al. 2012) and lower (Mennekens & Vanbeveren 2014) field merger rates.”