StAGE: Stellar Archaeology-driven Galaxy Evolution II. Binary Black Hole Mergers in Quiescent Galaxies and their Star-forming Progenitors

arXiv:2609.24222 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Comments: 53 pages, 18 figures

Code: https://github.com/marcasedda/BPOP

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

Terminology

• Metallicity — 102× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 41× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Population Synthesis — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 11× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fundamental Metallicity Relation — 3× in this paper
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Galaxy And Mass Assembly — 1× in this paper
• Mass Segregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Normalizing Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Normalizing Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Star Formation Rate (SFR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run
• Gravitational-wave astronomy requires population-informed parameter estimation
• Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
• Overview of KAGRA: Detector design and construction history
• Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
• Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
• The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3
• Compact Binary Coalescences: Astrophysical Processes and Lessons Learned
• Physical Models for the Astrophysical Population of Black Holes: Application to the Bump in the Mass Distribution of Gravitational Wave Sources
• The first gravitational-wave source from the isolated evolution of two 40-100 Msun stars
• Binary black hole mergers: formation and populations
• One Channel to Rule Them All? Constraining the Origins of Binary Black Holes using Multiple Formation Pathways
• What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Use and Abuse of Astrophysical Models in Gravitational-wave Population Analyses
• Exploring the evolution of gravitational-wave emitters with efficient emulation: Constraining the origins of binary black holes using normalising flows
• Seeking Spinning Subpopulations of Black Hole Binaries via Iterative Density Estimation
• Compactness Peaks and Subpopulations: Probing Stellar Physics and Formation Channels of Merging Binary Black Holes
• Inferring black hole formation channels in GWTC-4.0 via parametric mass-spin correlations derived from first principles
• Probing Spin-Orbit Resonances with the Binary Black Hole Population
• Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis Version 2.1: construction, observational verification and new results

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