Modern tidal interaction models for rapid binary population synthesis: II. Binary black hole formation, mergers, and spins

arXiv:2606.23773 · astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-06-22 · Read on arXiv

Veome Kapil, Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley, Evgeni Grishin, Jim Fuller, Emanuele Berti

astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-06-22

Comments: 23 pages, 16 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 34× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Angular Momentum Transport — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Australian Research Council — 2× in this paper
• Cosmic Explorer — 2× in this paper
• Momentum transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Angular Momentum Loss — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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