Dr. Aleksandra Olejak

Dr. Aleksandra Olejak

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Publications

I am a co-author of 28 peer-reviewed scientific articles and the leading author of 7 of them. Total citations: 1388. Citations for first-authored articles: 398. H-index: ~17 (Based on SAO/NASA ADS as of Feb. 1, 2026)

ADS Library: ADS Public Library ORCID: 0000-0002-6105-6492

First- and Second-authored Papers

  1. Olejak A., Stegmann J., de Mink S. E., Valli R., Sari R., Justham S.(2025) Supermassive black holes stripping a subgiant star down to its helium core: a new type of multi-messenger source for LISA ApJL 987, L11

  2. Olejak A., Klencki J., Xu X.-T., Wang C., Belczynski K., Lasota J.-P. (2024) Unequal-mass highly spinning binary black hole mergers in the stable mass transfer formation channel A&A 689, A305

  3. Olejak A., Fryer C. L., Belczynski K., Baibhav V. (2022) The role of supernova convection for the lower mass gap in the isolated binary formation of gravitational wave sources MNRAS 516, 2252

  4. Olejak A., Belczynski K. (2021) The Implications of High Black Hole Spins for the Origin of Binary Black Hole Mergers ApJL 921, L2

  5. Olejak A., Belczynski K., Ivanova N. (2021) Impact of common envelope development criteria on the formation of LIGO/Virgo sources A&A 651, A100

  6. Olejak A., Fishbach M., Belczynski K., Holz D. E., Lasota J.-P., Miller M. C., Bulik T. (2020) The Origin of Inequality: Isolated Formation of a 30+10 Msun Binary Black Hole Merger ApJL 901, L39

  7. Olejak A., Belczynski K., Bulik T., Sobolewska M. (2020) Synthetic catalog of black holes in the Milky Way A&A 638, A94

  8. Stegmann J., Olejak A., de Mink S.~E. (2025) Resolving Black Hole Family Issues Among the Massive Ancestors of Very High-Spin Gravitational-Wave Events Like GW231123 ApJL, 992, L26

  9. Sen K., Olejak A., Banerjee S. (2025) X-ray emission from helium star–black hole binaries as probes of tidally induced spin-up of second-born black holes A&A 696, A54

  10. Banerjee S., Olejak A., Belczynski K. (2023) Symmetry Breaking in Merging Binary Black Holes from Young Massive Clusters and Isolated Binaries ApJ 953, 80

  11. Romagnolo A., Olejak A., Hypki A., Wiktorowicz G., Belczynski K. (2022) Testing the presence of a dormant black hole inside HR 6819 A&A 667, A55

  12. Fryer C. L., Olejak A., Belczynski K. (2022) The Effect of Supernova Convection On Neutron Star and Black Hole Masses ApJ 931, 94

  13. Czerny B., Olejak A., et al.** (2019) Time Delay Measurement of Mg II Line in CTS C30.10 with SALT ApJ 880, 46

Other Co-authored Publications

  1. Zdziarski et al. 2025 — New Astronomy Reviews, 102,101746
  2. Klencki et al. 2025 — A&A, 706, A296
  3. Wiktorowicz et al. 2025 — A&A, 706, A232
  4. Vigna-Gomez et al. 2025 — A&A 699, A272
  5. Wang et al. 2024 — ApJL 975, L20
  6. Fumagalli et al. 2024 — Phys. Rev. D 110, 063012
  7. Prince et al. 2023 — A&A 678, A189
  8. Leveque et al. 2023 — MNRAS 520, 2593
  9. Prince et al. 2022 — A&A 667, A42
  10. Wang et al. 2022 — A&A 665, A111
  11. Belczynski et al. 2022 — ApJ 935, 126
  12. Belczynski et al. 2022 — ApJ 925, 69
  13. Zajacek et al. 2021 — ApJ 912, 10
  14. Zajacek et al. 2020 — ApJ 896, 146
  15. Belczynski et al. 2020 — A&A 636, A104

Submitted and preprints

  1. Olejak et al. 2025
  2. Stegmann et al. 2025
  3. Banerjee & Olejak 2024
  4. Belczynski et al. 2018