Krzysztof Belczynski

TL;DR: In this paper, Kalogera et al. presented an up-to-date summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the initial and advanced versions of the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo.

TL;DR: High-precision numerical simulations of the formation of binary black holes via the evolution of isolated binary stars are reported, providing a framework within which to interpret the first gravitational-wave source, GW150914, and to predict the properties of subsequent binary-black-hole gravitational- wave events.

TL;DR: StarTrack as mentioned in this paper is a popular population synthesis code for X-ray binary populations that can be used for a wide variety of problems, with relevance to observations with many current and planned observatories, e.g., studies of Xray binaries (Chandra, XMM-Newton), gravitational radiation sources (LIGO, LISA), and gamma-ray burst progenitors (HETE-II, Swift).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived the mass distributions of stellar compact remnants and provided analytic prescriptions for both single-star models (as a function of initial star mass) and binary-star model-prescriptions for compact object masses for major population synthesis codes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived mass distributions of stellar compact remnants and provided analytical prescriptions for compact object masses for major population synthesis codes, and demonstrated that these qualitatively new results for compact objects can explain the observed gap in the remnant mass distribution between ~2-5 solar masses and place strong constraints on the nature of the supernova engine.