[astroseminar at Sapienza] gentle reminder - ARC seminar by Michela Mapelli, thursday May 20 at 4 pm

[raffaella.schneider at roma1.infn.it]

Dear Colleagues,

this is a gentle reminder for the ARC seminar by Michela Mapelli. 
Details are given below,

Best regards

Raffaella


Prof. Raffaella Schneider
Dipartimento di Fisica "G. Marconi”
Senior Fellow, Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati Sapienza
Sapienza, Università di Roma
P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
raffaella.schneider at uniroma1.it

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Amaldi Research Center seminar

Thursday May 20 2021, 4 pm

Prof. Michela Mapelli (Università di Padova)

Title: "Binary black holes and intermediate-mass black holes across cosmic time”

Abstract:

The latest results from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration draw a spectacular fresco of binary black hole mergers, ranging from a few to more than hundred solar masses. In this talk, I will discuss the main astrophysical formation channels of binary black holes, highlighting the open questions. On the one hand, models of stellar evolution and pair instability suggest the existence of a gap in the mass spectrum of black holes between ~60 and ~120 solar masses. The boundaries of this gap drastically depend on stellar rotation and on the efficiency of envelope removal. On the other hand, extreme dynamical processes in dense star clusters can fill the mass gap, via multiple stellar collisions, dynamical exchanges and hierarchical mergers. These processes might build up intermediate-mass black holes with mass up to several thousand solar masses, especially in the most metal-poor and massive clusters. The evolution of such dynamical mergers across cosmic time will be one of the most exciting targets of next-generation ground-based detectors.

zoom link:
https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/89616189344?pwd=QlE0M0g1amh2aUMzWVh5alhxSjcvUT09 <https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/89616189344?pwd=QlE0M0g1amh2aUMzWVh5alhxSjcvUT09> Meeting ID: 896 1618 9344 Passcode: 107157
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