Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars
Comparison of LIGO/Virgo Detections With Stellar Models
by Prof. Chris Belczynski (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland)
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93366207125?pwd=aS8xS2NrZmJtRU5uczhPSDNHelMyZz09 ( Meeting ID: 933 6620 7125 Passcode: ChrisBDAA )
at Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93366207125?pwd=aS8xS2NrZmJtRU5uczhPSDNHelMyZz09 ( Meeting ID: 933 6620 7125 Passcode: ChrisBDAA )
Meeting ID: 933 6620 7125
Passcode: ChrisBDAA
Description |
LIGO/Virgo Collaboration has published 11 detections from the first two observational campaigns (O1/O2) and first most interesting detections are already available from the third campaign (O3). I will first discuss the landscape of O1/O2 detections and their implications for stellar evolutionary modeling. Broadly speaking the basic observational properties of detected double black hole mergers are consistent with predictions of the classical isolated binary evolution of massive stars. However, these detections severely constrain stellar physics that is unaccessible by electromagnetic observations. On the other hand, the first results from O3 campaign seem to challenge classical binary evolution with black holes found in the lower and upper mass gaps. These are regions in which black holes are not expected to form from stars, but rather form via dynamic interactions of stars in dense clusters. I will discuss these curious events in context of their most likely formation sites. |