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Mass-ratio Reversal as an Alternative to Hierarchical Mergers for GW241011

  • Authors: Rui-Chong Hu, Ying Qin, Bing Zhang

Rui-Chong Hu et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Mass-ratio (q) distributions of BBHs formed through the MRR channel for different binary-evolution models. Left: models adopt the fiducial mass-transfer prescription, lognormally distributed natal kicks with (μ = 5.6) and (σ = 0.68), with different common-envelope efficiencies, αCE. Middle: models with the same natal-kick prescription, different mass-transfer prescriptions, and assuming αCE = 1.0. Right: the same mass-transfer and natal-kick models as in the middle panel, but for αCE = 5.0.

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