Table 1 Number of NS–BH mergers formed in our models.

From: Dissecting the properties of neutron star–black hole mergers originating in dense star clusters

Model

Z (Z☉)

σ (km/s)

5

15

20

35

50

100

Number of exchanges–mergers–electromagnetic counterparts in 10,000 simulations

NSSTBH

10−2

641

11

2

769

16

4

795

22

3

861

30

9

911

37

14

950

83

34

1

725

9

0

880

19

2

971

24

7

1001

38

12

1089

64

15

1021

103

19

BHSTNS

10−2

200

3

3

215

6

3

268

13

9

274

22

17

311

30

21

326

77

51

1

280

4

1

341

13

6

365

21

10

430

37

19

460

56

25

462

116

45

  1. We refer to two configurations, either a neutron star–star binary impacting over a black hole (configuration NSSTBH) or viceversa (BHSTNS), metallicity Z (in unit of solar values), and velocity dispersion σ (in unit of kilometers per second). Each set consists of 10,000 simulations.
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