The location of the upper edge of the pair-instability supernovae black hole mass gap

arXiv:2606.31757 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-06-30 · Read on arXiv

Jeremy Sakstein, Djuna Croon

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-06-30

Comments: Six pages, two figures

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

Terminology

• Core — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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