Merging stellar-mass binary black holes

Ilya Mandel; Alison Farmer

doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2022.01.003

Merging stellar-mass binary black holes

Ilya Mandel, Alison Farmer

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

The LIGO and Virgo detectors have directly observed gravitational waves from mergers of pairs of stellar-mass black holes, along with a smaller number of mergers involving neutron stars. These observations raise the hope that compact object mergers could be used as a probe of stellar and binary evolution, and perhaps of stellar dynamics. This colloquium-style article summarises the existing observations, describes theoretical predictions for formation channels of merging stellar-mass black-hole binaries along with their rates and observable properties, and presents some prospects for gravitational-wave astronomy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-24
Number of pages	24
Journal	Physics Reports
Volume	955
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2022.01.003
Publication status	Published - 15 Apr 2022

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Black holes
Gravitational waves

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Merging stellar-mass binary black holes

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