2006/12/06 by V. Kalogera, Krzysztof Belczyński, K. Belczynski +5 · 3 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomical interferometer #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Black hole (networking) #Compact star #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Gravitation #Gravitational wave #Interferometry #Neutron star #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum mechanics #Stars #Theoretical physics #Work (physics) #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2007.02.008
published as Phys.Rept.442:75-108,2007 · 55 pages, 16 figures, to appear in the Bethe Centennial Volume of Physics Reports, eds. G. E. Brown, V. Kalogera, E.P.J. van den Heuvel
arxiv created 2006/12/06 · openalex publication_date 2007/02/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Current observations of double neutron stars provide us with a wealth of information that we can use to investigate their evolutionary history and the physical conditions of neutron star formation. Understanding this history and formation conditions further allow us to make theoretical predictions for the formation of other double compact objects with one or two black hole components and assess the detectability of such systems by ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers. In this paper we summarize our group's body of work in the past few years and we place our conclusions and current understanding in the framework of other work in this area of astrophysical research.