Common envelope ejection in massive binary stars - Implications for the progenitors of GW150914 and GW151226

<h4>Context</h4> <p>The recently detected gravitational wave signals (GW150914 and GW151226) of the merger event of a pair of relatively massive stellar-mass black holes (BHs) calls for an investigation of the formation of such progenitor systems in general.</p> <h4>Ai...

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Main Authors: Kruckow, M, Tauris, T, Langer, N, Szecsi, D, Marchant, P, Podsiadlowski, P
Format: Journal article
Published: EDP Sciences 2016