The Black Hole Mass Function Across Cosmic Times I. Stellar Black Holes and Light Seed Distribution
Alex Sicilia,
Andrea Lapi,
Lumen Boco
et al.
Abstract:This is the first paper in a series aimed at modeling the black hole (BH) mass function, from the stellar to the intermediate to the (super)massive regime. In the present work we focus on stellar BHs and provide an ab-initio computation of their mass function across cosmic times; we mainly consider the standard, and likely dominant production channel of stellar-mass BHs constituted by isolated single/binary star evolution. Specifically, we exploit the state-of-the-art stellar and binary evolutionary code SEVN,… Show more
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