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We review the main physical processes that lead to the formation of stellar binary black holes (BBHs) and to their merger.
Dynamics of Supernova Explosion Resulting from Pair Formation
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Young Massive Star Clusters
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Compact Remnant Mass Function: Dependence on the Explosion Mechanism and Metallicity
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Two-dimensional Simulations of Pulsational Pair-instability Supernovae
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The Formation of Eccentric Compact Binary Inspirals and the Role of Gravitational Wave Emission in Binary-Single Stellar Encounters
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Dynamics of stellar black holes in young star clusters with different metallicities - II. Black hole-black hole binaries
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PARSEC evolutionary tracks of massive stars up to 350 M ⊙
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Constraining the Fraction of Binary Black Holes Formed in Isolation and Young Star Clusters with Gravitational-wave Data
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Merging black holes in young star clusters
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Mind the Gap: The Location of the Lower Edge of the Pair-instability Supernova Black Hole Mass Gap
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Pulsational Pair-instability Supernovae in Very Close Binaries
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Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger
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The chemically homogeneous evolutionary channel for binary black hole mergers: rates and properties of gravitational-wave events detectable by advanced LIGO
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A Two-parameter Criterion for Classifying the Explodability of Massive Stars by the Neutrino-driven Mechanism
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The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers
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Black holes: The next generation—repeated mergers in dense star clusters and their gravitational-wave properties
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Merging black hole binaries with the SEVN code
Spera, M., Mapelli, M., Giacobbo, N., Trani, A. A., Bressan, A., and Costa, G. (2019) · 2019
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The Impact of Pair-instability Mass Loss on the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution
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The Evolution of Massive Helium Stars, Including Mass Loss
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Eccentric Black Hole Mergers in Dense Star Clusters: The Role of Binary-Binary Encounters
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Binary black holes in the pair instability mass gap
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Revising Natal Kick Prescriptions in Population Synthesis Simulations
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Impact of the Rotation and Compactness of Progenitors on the Mass of Black Holes
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Nuclear star clusters
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Sensitivity of the lower edge of the pair-instability black hole mass gap to the treatment of time-dependent convection
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The Cosmic Merger Rate Density Evolution of Compact Binaries Formed in Young Star Clusters and in Isolated Binaries
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Dependence of gravitational wave transient rates on cosmic star formation and metallicity evolution history
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The progenitors of compact-object binaries: impact of metallicity, common envelope and natal kicks
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Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-hole Merger GW150914
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The Complete Evolution of a Neutron-star Binary through a Common Envelope Phase Using 1D Hydrodynamic Simulations
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Most Black Holes Are Born Very Slowly Rotating
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On the Origin of Black Hole Spin in High-mass X-Ray Binaries
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