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Stevance, Heloise F., Eldridge, Jan J., Stanway, Elizabeth R., Lyman, Joe, McLeod, Anna F. and Levan, Andrew J. (2023) End-to-end study of the host galaxy and genealogy of the first binary neutron star merger. Nature Astronomy, 7 . pp. 444-450. doi:10.1038/s41550-022-01873-y ISSN 2397-3366.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01873-y
Abstract
Binary neutron star mergers are one of the ultimate events of massive binary star evolution, and our understanding of their parent systems is still in its infancy. Upcoming gravitational wave detections, coupled with multi-wavelength follow-up observations, will allow us to study an increasing number of these events by characterizing their neighbouring stellar populations and searching for their progenitors. Stellar evolution simulations are essential to this work, but they are also based on numerous assumptions. Additionally, the models used to study the host galaxies differ from those used to characterize the progenitors and are typically based on single-star populations. Here we introduce a framework to perform an end-to-end analysis and deploy it to the first detected binary neutron star merger event, GW170817. With the Binary Population And Spectral Synthesis codes we are able to retrieve the physical properties of the host galaxy NGC 4993 as well as infer progenitor candidates. In our simulations, there is a >98% chance that GW170817 originated from a stellar population with metallicity Z = 0.010, born between 5 and 12.5 Gyr ago. By carefully weighing the stellar genealogies, we find that GW170817 most likely came from a binary system born with a 13–24 M⊙ primary and 10–12 M⊙ secondary that underwent 2 or 3 common envelope events over their lifetime.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Astronomy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2397-3366 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 444-450 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/s41550-022-01873-y | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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