Linking high-mass X-ray binaries to binary compact object mergers in Milky Way-like galaxies

arXiv:2608.23945 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Project page: https://binary-revolution.github.io/HMXBwebcat

Terminology

• Metallicity — 20× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Milky Way — 5× in this paper
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Wave Emission — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Observational Selection Effects — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Angular Momentum Loss — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mass Segregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Science of the Einstein Telescope
• Gravitational-wave constraints on the pair-instability mass gap and nuclear burning in massive stars
• Can current models predict the local black hole merger rate?
• High-mass X-ray Binaries
• From cosmological simulations to binary black hole mergers: The impact of using analytical star formation history models on gravitational-wave source populations
• Milky Way and Andromeda analogs from the TNG50 simulation
• GWTC-5.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
• GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run

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