Lavinia Paiella

Lavinia Paiella

PhD student @ GSSI

Publications

Seeds to success: growing heavy black holes in dense star clusters

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2026, 2026

We explore intermediate-mass black hole formation via stellar collisions and hierarchical binary black hole mergers in different star cluster families using the B-POP code.

Recommended citation: Paiella, L., Arca Sedda, M., Mestichelli, B., & Ugolini, C. (2026). "Seeds to success: growing heavy black holes in dense star clusters." Astronomy & Astrophysics. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/04/aa57230-25/aa57230-25.html

Assembling GW231123 in star clusters through the combination of stellar binary evolution and hierarchical mergers

Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 994, L54, 2025

We investigate the potential dynamical assembly of GW231123 in star clusters, the most massive binary black hole merger detected so far by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration.

Recommended citation: Paiella, L., Ugolini, C., Spera, M., Branchesi, M., & Arca Sedda, M. (2025). "Assembling GW231123 in Star Clusters through the Combination of Stellar Binary Evolution and Hierarchical Mergers." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 994, L54. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025ApJ...994L..54P/abstract

Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection

Published in arXiv e-prints, 2023

In this paper, we confront three concepts of lunar gravitational-wave detectors in terms of their observational capabilities based on a first more detailed modeling of instrumental noise.

Recommended citation: Cozzumbo, A., Mestichelli, B., Mirabile, M., Paiella, L., Tissino, J., and Harms, J. (2023) "Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection." arXiv e-prints,. 1(1). https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15160