Eva Laplace: "The effect of binary mass transfer on the late evolution, death, and afterlife of massive stars"

Tuesday 26 Aug 2025, 13:15 → 14:00 Europe/Stockholm

FB54 (AlbaNova Main Building)

Gravitational-wave observations have revealed the population of stellar remnants from a new angle. Yet their stellar progenitors remain uncertain, in particular in the case of black holes. At least a fraction of these stars is believed to form in isolated binary systems. In this talk, I will discuss how binary mass transfer affects the late evolution and final fate of massive stars, and discuss consequences for supernovae, black hole formation, and gravitational-wave observations. Finally, I will highlight important uncertainties in stellar physics that affect these outcomes, and how these can be constrained from observations.