Literature Catalog: Compact Binaries: Scenarios & Rate Estimates

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Bagot, P., Portegies Zwart, S. F. & Yungelson, L. R. Gamma-ray bursts and density evolution of neutron star binary mergers A&A, 332L, 57 (1998).

Belczynski, K., Kalogera, V., & Bulik, T. A Comprehensive Study of Binary Compact Objects as Gravitational Wave Sources: Evolutionary Channels, Rates, and Physical Properties ApJ, 572, 407 (2002).

Belczynski, K. & Kalogera, V. A New Formation Channel for Double Neutron Stars Without Recycling: Implications for Gravitational Wave Detection ApJ, 550L, 183 (2001).

Belczynski, K. & Bulik, T. The effect of supernova natal kicks on compact object merger rate A&A, 346, 91 (1999).

Bethe, H. A. & Brown, G. E. Contribution of High-Mass Black Holes to Mergers of Compact Binaries ApJ, 517, 318 (1999).

de Donder, E. & Vanbeveren, D. The relative frequency of type II and I_(b,c) supernovae and the birth rate of double compact star binaries A&A, 333, 557 (1998).

Farmer, Alison J., Phinney E. Sterl The Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Compact Binaries, submitted to MNRAS (2003).

Fryer, C., Burrows, A. & Benz, W. Population Syntheses for Neutron Star Systems with Intrinsic Kicks ApJ, 496, 333 (1998).

Hils, D., Bender, P. L. & Webbink, R. F. Gravitational Radiation from the Galaxy ApJ, 369, 271 (1991).

Hils, D., Bender, P. L. & Webbink, R. F. Gravitational Radiation from the Galaxy ApJ, 360, 75 (1990).

Hils, D. & Bender, P. L. Gravitational Radiation from Helium Cataclysmics ApJ, 537, 334 (2000).

Iben, I., Jr., Tutukov, A. V. & Yungelson, L. R. Helium and Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarfs in Close Binaries ApJ, 475, 291 (1997).

Kalogera, V., Narayan, R., Spergel, D. N., & Taylor, J. H. The Coalescence Rate of Double Neutron Star Systems ApJ, 556, 340 (2001).

Kalogera, V., Belczynski, K. Event Rates for Binary Inspiral Astrophysical sources for ground-based gravitational wave detectors, AIP conference proceedings, Vol. 575, p.107 (2001).

Kalogera, V. & Lorimer, D.R. An Upper Limit on the Coalescence Rate of Double Neutron-Star Binaries in the Galaxy ApJ, 530, 890 (2000).

Nelemans, G. White dwarfs, black holes, and neutron stars in close binaries Obs, 122, 130 (2002).

Nelemans, G., Yungelson, L. R. & Portegies Zwart, S. F. The gravitational wave signal from the Galactic disk population of binaries containing two compact objects A&A, 375, 890 (2001).

Nelemans, G., Portegies Zwart, S. F., Verbunt, F. & Yungelson, L. R. Population synthesis for double white dwarfs. II. Semi-detached systems: AM CVn stars A&A, 368, 939 (2001).

Nelemans, G., Yungelson, L. R., Portegies Zwart, S. F. & Verbunt, F. Population synthesis for double white dwarfs . I. Close detached systems A&A, 365, 491 (2001).

Nelemans, G., Verbunt, F., Yungelson, L. R. & Portegies Zwart, S.F Reconstructing the evolution of double helium white dwarfs: envelope loss without spiral-in A&A, 360, 1011 (2000).

Portegies Zwart, S. F. & McMillan, S. L. W. Black Hole Mergers in the Universe ApJ, 528L, 17 (2000).

Portegies Zwart, S. F. & Yungelson, L. R. Formation and evolution of binary neutron stars A&A, 332, 173 (1998).

Portegies Zwart, S. F. & Spreeuw, H. N. The galactic merger-rate of (ns, ns) binaries. I. Perspective for gravity-wave detectors. A&A, 312, 670 (1996).

Saffer, R. A., Livio, M. & Yungelson, L. R. Close Binary White Dwarf Systems: Numerous New Detections and Their Interpretation ApJ, 502, 394 (1998).

Schneider, R., Ferrari, V., Matarrese, S. & Portegies Zwart, S. F. Low-frequency gravitational waves from cosmological compact binaries MNRAS, 324, 797 (2001).

Sipior, M. S. & Sigurdsson, S. Nova Scorpii and Coalescing Low-Mass Black Hole Binaries as LIGO Sources ApJ, 572, 962 (2002).

Voss, Rasmus, Tauris, Thomas M., Galactic distribution of merging neutron stars and black holes - prospects for short GRB progenitors and LIGO/VIRGO MNRAS (2003)

Webbink, R. F. & Han, Z. Gravitational Radiation from Close Double White Dwarfs Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, Second International LISA Symposium on the Detection and Observation of Gravitational Waves in Space, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 456, p.61 (1998).

Wen L. On the Eccentricity Distribution of Coalescing Black Hole Binaries Driven by the Kozai Mechanism in Globular Clusters submitted to ApJ, astro-ph/0211492