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Our recent (2019-now) articles.

List of refereed articles on the origin of GW sources

Populations of Stellar-mass Black Holes from Binary Systems Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Wyrzykowski, Łukasz; Chruslinska, Martyna; Klencki, Jakub; Rybicki, Krzysztof A.; Belczynski, Krzysztof 2019 ApJ 885 1

A wide star-black-hole binary system from radial velocity measurements Liu, Jifeng; Zhang, Haotong; Howard, Andrew W.; Bai, Zhongrui; Lu, Youjun; Soria, Roberto; Justham, Stephen; Li, Xiangdong; Zheng, Zheng; Wang, Tinggui; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Casares et al. 2019 Nature 575 618

The connection between merging double compact objects and the ultraluminous X-ray sources Mondal, Samaresh; Belczyński, Krzysztof; Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Lasota, Jean-Pierre; King, Andrew R. 2020 MNRAS 491 2465

The Formation of a 70 M Black Hole at High Metallicity Belczynski, K.; Hirschi, R.; Kaiser, E. A.; Liu, Jifeng; Casares, J.; Lu, Youjun; O’Shaughnessy, R.; Heger, A.; Justham, S.; Soria, R. 2020 ApJ 890 113

Evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates for LIGO/Virgo binary black holes Belczynski, K.; Klencki, J.; Fields, C. E.; Olejak, A.; Berti, E.; Meynet, G.; Fryer, C. L.; Holz, D. E.; O’Shaughnessy, R.; Brown, D. A.; Bulik, T.; Leung, S. C.; Nomoto, K.; Madau, P.; Hirschi, R.; Kaiser, E.; Jones, S.; Mondal, S.; Chruslinska, M.; Drozda, P.; et al. 2020 A&A 636 A104

Synthetic catalog of black holes in the Milky Way Olejak, A.; Belczynski, K.; Bulik, T.; Sobolewska, M. 2020 A&A 638 94

BSE versus StarTrack: Implementations of new wind, remnant-formation, and natal-kick schemes in binary population synthesis codes Banerjee, S.; Belczynski, K.; Fryer, C. L.; Berczik, P.; Hurley, J. R.; Spurzem, R.; Wang, L. 2020 A&A 639 A41

Formation of low-spinning 100 M black holes Belczynski, K.; Banerjee, S. 2020 A&A 640 L20

The Origin of Inequality: Isolated Formation of a 30+10 M Binary Black Hole Merger Olejak, A.; Fishbach, M.; Belczynski, K.; Holz, D. E.; Lasota, J.-P.; Miller, M. C.; Bulik, T. 2020 ApJL 901 L39

Noninteracting Black Hole Binaries with Gaia and LAMOST Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Lu, Youjun; Wyrzykowski, Łukasz; Zhang, Haotong; Liu, Jifeng; Justham, Stephen; Belczynski, Krzysztof 2020 ApJ 905 134

The Most Ordinary Formation of the Most Unusual Double Black Hole Merger Belczynski, Krzysztof 2020 ApJL 905 L15

Dynamical evolution of multiple-population globular clusters Vesperini, Enrico; Hong, Jongsuk; Giersz, Mirek; Hypki, Arkadiusz 2021 MNRAS 502 4290

VLT/MUSE and ATCA Observations of the Host Galaxy of the Short GRB 080905A at z = 0.122 A. M. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, S. Klose, P. Schady, K. Belczynski, D. H. Hartmann, L. K. Hunt, M.J. Michałowski 2021 [Journal info needed]

The Implications of High Black Hole Spins for the Origin of Binary Black Hole Mergers Olejak, A.; Belczynski, K. 2021 ApJL 921 L2

Wind-powered Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Wiktorowicz, G.; Lasota, J.-P.; Belczynski, K.; Lu, Y.; Liu, J.; Iłkiewicz, K. 2021 ApJ 918 60

Impact of common envelope development criteria on the formation of LIGO/Virgo sources Olejak, A.; Belczynski, K.; Ivanova, N. 2021 A&A 651 A100

StarTrack predictions of the stochastic gravitational wave background from compact binary mergers Perigois, C.; Belczynski, C.; Bulik, T.; Regimbau, T. 2021 Physical Review D 103 043002

Dynamical evolution of multiple-population globular clusters Vesperini, Enrico; Hong, Jongsuk; Giersz, Mirek; Hypki, Arkadiusz 2022 MNRAS 502 4290

The Uncertain Future of Massive Binaries Obscures the Origin of LIGO/Virgo Sources Belczynski, K.; Romagnolo, A.; Olejak, A.; Klencki, J.; Chattopadhyay, D.; Stevenson, S.; Coleman Miller, M.; Lasota, J.-P.; Crowther, Paul A. 2022 ApJ 925 69

A Nuclear Equation of State Inferred from Stellar r-process Abundances Holmbeck, Erika M.; O’Shaughnessy, Richard; Delfavero, Vera; Belczynski 2022 ApJ 926 196

Synthetic Population of Binary Cepheids. I. The Effect of Metallicity and Initial Parameter Distribution on Characteristics of Cepheids’ Companions Karczmarek, Paulina; Smolec, Radosław; Hajdu, Gergely; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Gieren, Wolfgang; Narloch, Weronika; Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Belczynski 2022 ApJ 930 65

The Effect of Supernova Convection On Neutron Star and Black Hole Masses Fryer, Chris L.; Olejak, Aleksandra; Belczynski, Krzysztof 2022 ApJ 931 94

Black Hole-Black Hole Total Merger Mass and the Origin of LIGO/Virgo Sources Belczynski, Krzysztof; Doctor, Zoheyr; Zevin, Michael; Olejak, Aleksandra; Banerje, Sambaran; Chattopadhyay 2022 ApJ 935 126

The role of supernova convection for the lower mass gap in the isolated binary formation of gravitational wave sources Olejak, Aleksandra; Fryer, Chris L.; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Baibhav, Vishal 2022 MNRAS 516 2252

Testing the presence of a dormant black hole inside HR 6819 Romagnolo, A.; Olejak, A.; Hypki, A.; Wiktorowicz, G.; Belczynski, K. 2022 A&A 667 A55

Black hole-neutron star mergers: The first mass gap and kilonovae Drozda, P.; Belczynski, K.; O’Shaughnessy, R.; Bulik, T.; Fryer, C. L. 2022 A&A 667 A126

Astrometric mass measurement of compact companions in binary systems with Gaia Wang, Yilun; Liao, Shilong; Giacobbo, Nicola; Olejak, Aleksandra; Gao, Jian; Liu, Jifeng 2022 A&A 665 A111

Symmetry Breaking in Merging Binary Black Holes from Young Massive Clusters and Isolated Binaries Sambaran Banerje; Aleksandra Olejak 2023 ApJ 953 80

MOCCA-Survey Database: extra galactic globular clusters – III. The population of black holes in Milky Way and Andromeda-like galaxies A. Leveque, M. Giersz, Abbas Askar, M. Arca-Sedda. A. Olejak 2023 MNRAS 520 issue 2 2593-2610

The X-ray binaries in M83: Will any of them form gravitational wave sources for LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA? Kotko, I.; Belczynski, K. 2024 A&A 683 A85

The role of stellar expansion on the formation of gravitational wave sources Romagnolo, A.; Belczynski, K.; Klencki, J.; Agrawal, P.; Shenar, T.; Szécsi, D. 2023 MNRAS 525 2245

The wind of rotating B supergiants – II. The δ-slow hydrodynamic regime R. O. J. Venero, M. Cure, J. Puls, L. S. Cidale, M. Haucke, I. Araya, A. Gormaz-Matamala, C. Arcos 2023 MNRAS 526 5689

Can Neutron Star Mergers Alone Explain the r-process Enrichment of the Milky Way? Chiaki Kobayashi, Ilya Mandel, Krzysztof Belczynski, Stephane Goriely, Thomas H. Janka, Oliver Just, Ashley J. Ruiter, Dany Vanbeveren, Matthias U. Kruckow, Max M. Briel, Jan J. Eldridge, Elizabeth [et al.] 2023 ApJL 943 L12

Synthetic Population of Binary Cepheids. II. Paulina Karczmarek, Gergely Hajdu, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Wolfgang Gieren, Weronika Narloch, Radosław Smolec, Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , and Krzysztof Belczynski 2023 ApJ 950 182

Iteratively comparing gravitational-wave observations to the evolution of massive stellar binaries V. Delfavero, R. O’Shaughnessy, K. Belczynski, P. Drozda, D. Wysocki 2023 Physical Review D 108 043023

Abundances and Transients from Neutron Star-White Dwarf Mergers M. Alexander, R. Kaltenborn, Chris L. Fryer, Ryan T. Wollaeger, Krzysztof Belczynski, Wesley Even, Chryssa 2023 ApJ 958 28

Massive black hole binaries as sources of low-frequency gravitational waves and X-shaped radio galaxies Małgorzata Curyło and Tomasz Bulik 2024 MNRAS 528 1053-1064

The enigmatic origin of two dormant BH binaries: Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2 Kotko, I.; Banerjee, S.; Belczynski, K. 2024 MNRAS 535 3577-3594

On the Maximum Black Hole Mass at Solar Metallicity Amedeo Romagnolo , Alex C. Gormaz-Matamala , Krzysztof Belczynski 2024 ApJL 964 L23

PyMerger: Detecting Binary Black Hole Mergers from the Einstein Telescope Using Deep Learning Alhassan, Wathela; Bulik, T.; Suchenek, M. 2024 ApJ 977 15

Evolution of rotating massive stars adopting a newer, self-consistent wind prescription at Small Magellanic Cloud metallicity A. C. Gormaz-Matamala, J. Cuadra, S. Ekström, G. Meynet, M. Curé, and K. Belczynski 2024 A&A 687 290

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity: IV. Spectral analysis methods and exemplary results for O stars A. A. C. Sander, J.-C. Bouret, M. Bernini-Peron, J. Puls, F. Backs, S. R. Berlanas, J. M. Bestenlehner, S. A. Brands, A. Herrero, F. Martins, O. Maryeva, D. Pauli, V. Ramachandran, P. A. Crowther, V. M. A. Gómez-González, A. C. Gormaz-Matamala, W.-R. Hamann, D. J. Hillier, R. Kuiper et al. 2024 A&A 689 34