The History of Merging Compact-Object Binaries

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Peer reviewed articles (20)

Mass and star formation rate of the host galaxies of compact binary mergers across cosmic time

Author(s): M Celeste Artale, Michela Mapelli, Yann Bouffanais, Nicola Giacobbo, Mario Pasquato, Mario Spera
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 491/3, 2020, Page(s) 3419-3434, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3190

Binary black holes in young star clusters: the impact of metallicity

Author(s): Ugo N Di Carlo, Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, Mario Spera, Yann Bouffanais, Sara Rastello, Filippo Santoliquido, Mario Pasquato, Alessandro Ballone, Alessandro A Trani, Stefano Torniamenti, Francesco Haardt
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 498/1, 2020, Page(s) 495-506, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2286

Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond with the CMC Cluster Catalog

Author(s): Kyle Kremer, Claire S. Ye, Nicholas Z. Rui, Newlin C. Weatherford, Sourav Chatterjee, Giacomo Fragione, Carl L. Rodriguez, Mario Spera, Frederic A. Rasio
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 247/2, 2020, Page(s) 48, ISSN 1538-4365
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab7919

Impact of the Rotation and Compactness of Progenitors on the Mass of Black Holes

Author(s): Michela Mapelli, Mario Spera, Enrico Montanari, Marco Limongi, Alessandro Chieffi, Nicola Giacobbo, Alessandro Bressan, Yann Bouffanais
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 888/2, 2020, Page(s) 76, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab584d

Evidence of Nonluminous Matter in the Center of M62

Author(s): Federico Abbate, Andrea Possenti, Monica Colpi, Mario Spera
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 884/1, 2019, Page(s) L9, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab46c3

The Keplerian Three-body Encounter. II. Comparisons with Isolated Encounters and Impact on Gravitational Wave Merger Timescales

Author(s): Alessandro A. Trani, Mario Spera, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Michiko S. Fujii
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 885/2, 2019, Page(s) 135, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab480a

The evolution of kicked stellar-mass black holes in star cluster environments - II. Rotating star clusters

Author(s): Jeremy J Webb, Nathan W C Leigh, Roberto Serrano, Jillian Bellovary, K E Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan, Mario Spera, Alessandro A Trani
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 488/3, 2019, Page(s) 3055-3066, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1896

Evolution of fractality and rotation in embedded star clusters

Author(s): Alessandro Ballone, Michela Mapelli, Ugo N Di Carlo, Stefano Torniamenti, Mario Spera, Sara Rastello
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 496/1, 2020, Page(s) 49-59, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1383

Dynamics of black hole–neutron star binaries in young star clusters

Author(s): Sara Rastello, Michela Mapelli, Ugo N Di Carlo, Nicola Giacobbo, Filippo Santoliquido, Mario Spera, Alessandro Ballone, Giuliano Iorio
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 497/2, 2020, Page(s) 1563-1570, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2018

Future merger of the Milky Way with the Andromeda galaxy and the fate of their supermassive black holes

Author(s): Riccardo Schiavi, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Manuel Arca-Sedda, Mario Spera
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 642, 2020, Page(s) A30, ISSN 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038674

An astrophysically motivated ranking criterion for low-latency electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave events

Author(s): M Celeste Artale, Yann Bouffanais, Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, Nadeen B Sabha, Filippo Santoliquido, Mario Pasquato, Mario Spera
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 495/2, 2020, Page(s) 1841-1852, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1252

Binary black holes in the pair instability mass gap

Author(s): Ugo N Di Carlo, Michela Mapelli, Yann Bouffanais, Nicola Giacobbo, Filippo Santoliquido, Alessandro Bressan, Mario Spera, Francesco Haardt
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 497/1, 2020, Page(s) 1043-1049, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1997

Evolution of dwarf galaxies hosting GW150914-like events

Author(s): S Marassi, L Graziani, M Ginolfi, R Schneider, M Mapelli, M Spera, M Alparone
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 484/3, 2019, Page(s) 3219-3232, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz170

Fingerprints of Binary Black Hole Formation Channels Encoded in the Mass and Spin of Merger Remnants

Author(s): Manuel Arca Sedda, Michela Mapelli, Mario Spera, Matthew Benacquista, Nicola Giacobbo
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 894/2, 2020, Page(s) 133, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab88b2

Merging black holes in young star clusters

Author(s): Ugo N Di Carlo, Nicola Giacobbo, Michela Mapelli, Mario Pasquato, Mario Spera, Long Wang, Francesco Haardt
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 487/2, 2019, Page(s) 2947-2960, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1453

Merging black hole binaries with the SEVN code

Author(s): Mario Spera, Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, Alessandro A Trani, Alessandro Bressan, Guglielmo Costa
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 485/1, 2019, Page(s) 889-907, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz359

Intermediate mass black holes in globular clusters: effects on jerks and jounces of millisecond pulsars

Author(s): Federico Abbate, Mario Spera, Monica Colpi
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 487/1, 2019, Page(s) 769-781, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1330

Host galaxies of merging compact objects: mass, star formation rate, metallicity, and colours

Author(s): M Celeste Artale, Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, Nadeen B Sabha, Mario Spera, Filippo Santoliquido, Alessandro Bressan
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 487/2, 2019, Page(s) 1675-1688, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1382

Populating the Upper Black Hole Mass Gap through Stellar Collisions in Young Star Clusters

Author(s): Kyle Kremer, Mario Spera, Devin Becker, Sourav Chatterjee, Ugo N. Di Carlo, Giacomo Fragione, Carl L. Rodriguez, Claire S. Ye, Frederic A. Rasio
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 903/1, 2020, Page(s) 45, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb945

Exploring the Lower Mass Gap and Unequal Mass Regime in Compact Binary Evolution

Author(s): Michael Zevin, Mario Spera, Christopher P L Berry, Vicky Kalogera
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 899/1, 2020, Page(s) L1, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aba74e