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Accretion-driven Evolution of Compact-object Populations in Gas-rich Environments and the Origin of Massive Gravitational-wave Sources

  • Authors: Mor Rozner, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Mor Rozner et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Time evolution of binary populations including enhanced accretion onto the secondary companion. The calculations are identical to those shown in Figure 3, except that the secondary experiences the density enhancement associated with the common-accretion regime following A. Rosselli-Calderon et al. (2026). The panels show the evolution of the primary-mass distribution (top left), secondary-mass distribution (top right), and mass-ratio distribution (bottom). In contrast to the isolated-accretion case, the enhanced growth of the secondary drives the mass-ratio distribution toward q ≃ 1, causing the binary population to evolve toward increasingly equal-mass systems. The comparison with Figure 3 demonstrates that the partitioning of accreted gas between the binary components plays a crucial role in determining the properties of the resulting population.

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