Population-synthesis codes are an unique tool to explore the parameter space of massive binary star evolution and binary compact object (BCO) formation. Most population-synthesis codes are based on the same stellar evolution model, limiting our ability to explore the main uncertainties. Here, we present the new version of the code SEVN, which overcomes this issue by interpolating the main stellar properties from a set of pre-computed evolutionary tracks. We describe the new interpolation and adaptive time-step algorithms of SEVN, and the main upgrades on single and binary evolution. With SEVN, we evolved 1.2 x 10(9) binaries in the metallicity range 0.0001 <= Z <= 0.03, exploring a number of models for electron-capture, core-collapse and pair-instability supernovae, different assumptions for common envelope, stability of mass transfer, quasi-homogeneous evolution, and stellar tides. We find that stellar evolution has a dramatic impact on the formation of single and BCOs. Just by slightly changing the overshooting parameter (lambda(ov) = 0.4, 0.5) and the pair-instability model, the maximum mass of a black hole can vary from approximate to 60 to approximate to 100 M-circle dot. Furthermore, the formation channels of BCOs and the merger efficiency we obtain with SEVN show significant differences with respect to the results of other population-synthesis codes, even when the same binary-evolution parameters are used. For example, the main traditional formation channel of BCOs is strongly suppressed in our models: at high metallicity (Z greater than or similar to 0.01) only <20 per cent of the merging binary black holes and binary neutron stars form via this channel, while other authors found fractions >70 per cent.

Compact object mergers: exploring uncertainties from stellar and binary evolution with sevn / Iorio, Giuliano; Mapelli, Michela; Costa, Guglielmo; Spera, Mario; Escobar, Gastón J; Sgalletta, Cecilia; Trani, Alessandro A; Korb, Erika; Santoliquido, Filippo; Dall’Amico, Marco; Gaspari, Nicola; Bressan, Alessandro. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0035-8711. - 524:1(2023), pp. 426-470. [10.1093/mnras/stad1630]

Compact object mergers: exploring uncertainties from stellar and binary evolution with sevn

Mapelli, Michela;Costa, Guglielmo;Spera, Mario;Sgalletta, Cecilia;Bressan, Alessandro
2023-01-01

Abstract

Population-synthesis codes are an unique tool to explore the parameter space of massive binary star evolution and binary compact object (BCO) formation. Most population-synthesis codes are based on the same stellar evolution model, limiting our ability to explore the main uncertainties. Here, we present the new version of the code SEVN, which overcomes this issue by interpolating the main stellar properties from a set of pre-computed evolutionary tracks. We describe the new interpolation and adaptive time-step algorithms of SEVN, and the main upgrades on single and binary evolution. With SEVN, we evolved 1.2 x 10(9) binaries in the metallicity range 0.0001 <= Z <= 0.03, exploring a number of models for electron-capture, core-collapse and pair-instability supernovae, different assumptions for common envelope, stability of mass transfer, quasi-homogeneous evolution, and stellar tides. We find that stellar evolution has a dramatic impact on the formation of single and BCOs. Just by slightly changing the overshooting parameter (lambda(ov) = 0.4, 0.5) and the pair-instability model, the maximum mass of a black hole can vary from approximate to 60 to approximate to 100 M-circle dot. Furthermore, the formation channels of BCOs and the merger efficiency we obtain with SEVN show significant differences with respect to the results of other population-synthesis codes, even when the same binary-evolution parameters are used. For example, the main traditional formation channel of BCOs is strongly suppressed in our models: at high metallicity (Z greater than or similar to 0.01) only <20 per cent of the merging binary black holes and binary neutron stars form via this channel, while other authors found fractions >70 per cent.
2023
524
1
426
470
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11774
Iorio, Giuliano; Mapelli, Michela; Costa, Guglielmo; Spera, Mario; Escobar, Gastón J; Sgalletta, Cecilia; Trani, Alessandro A; Korb, Erika; Santoliqui...espandi
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