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| Constraints from Gravitational-wave Detections of Binary Black Hole Mergers on the 12C(α, γ)16O Rate | |
| Farmer,R.1,2; Renzo,M.3; de Mink,S. E.1,2; Fishbach,M.4; Justham,S.1,5,6 | |
| 2020-10-01 | |
| Source Publication | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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| ISSN | 2041-8205 |
| Volume | 902Issue:2 |
| Abstract | Abstract Gravitational-wave detections are starting to allow us to probe the physical processes in the evolution of very massive stars through the imprints they leave on their final remnants. Stellar evolution theory predicts the existence of a gap in the black hole mass distribution at high mass due to the effects of pair instability. Previously, we showed that the location of the gap is robust against model uncertainties, but it does depend sensitively on the uncertain rate. This rate is of great astrophysical significance and governs the production of oxygen at the expense of carbon. We use the open-source MESA stellar evolution code to evolve massive helium stars to probe the location of the mass gap. We find that the maximum black hole mass below the gap varies between and , depending on the strength of the uncertain reaction rate. With the first 10 gravitational-wave detections of black holes, we constrain the astrophysical S-factor for , at , to at 68% confidence. With detected binary black hole mergers, we expect to constrain the S-factor to within ±10–30 . We also highlight a role for independent constraints from electromagnetic transient surveys. The unambiguous detection of pulsational pair-instability supernovae would imply that . Degeneracies with other model uncertainties need to be investigated further, but probing nuclear stellar astrophysics poses a promising science case for the future gravitational-wave detectors. |
| Keyword | Stellar evolution Supernovae Core-collapse supernovae Nuclear astrophysics Stellar mass black holes Astrophysical black holes Massive stars Late stellar evolution |
| DOI | 10.3847/2041-8213/abbadd |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | IOP:2041-8205-902-2-abbadd |
| Publisher | The American Astronomical Society |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.bao.ac.cn/handle/114a11/62921 |
| Collection | 中国科学院国家天文台 |
| Corresponding Author | Farmer,R. |
| Affiliation | 1.Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy and GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam, NL-1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands; r.j.farmer@uva.nl 2.Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 3.Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010, USA 4.Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 5.School of Astronomy & Space Science, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, People’s Republic of China 6.National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, People’s Republic of China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Farmer,R.,Renzo,M.,de Mink,S. E.,et al. Constraints from Gravitational-wave Detections of Binary Black Hole Mergers on the 12C(α, γ)16O Rate[J]. The Astrophysical Journal Letters,2020,902(2). |
| APA | Farmer,R.,Renzo,M.,de Mink,S. E.,Fishbach,M.,&Justham,S..(2020).Constraints from Gravitational-wave Detections of Binary Black Hole Mergers on the 12C(α, γ)16O Rate.The Astrophysical Journal Letters,902(2). |
| MLA | Farmer,R.,et al."Constraints from Gravitational-wave Detections of Binary Black Hole Mergers on the 12C(α, γ)16O Rate".The Astrophysical Journal Letters 902.2(2020). |
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