Stellar collisions as mimickers or binaries of MBHs @LISAcommunity

Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 57 minutes ago

Stellar collisions as mimickers or binaries of MBHs

Pau Amaro Seoane

In this talk I will show that collisions between stars can represent a high-energy source of electromagnetic radiation and that they can mimic a binary of two massive black holes with very peculiar characteristics. I also derive the event rate and the EM and GW properties.

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