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 )
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.