Binary population and spectral synthesis version 2.1: construction, observational verification, and new results

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway, L **ao… - Publications of the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis suite of binary stellar evolution models and
synthetic stellar populations provides a framework for the physically motivated analysis of …

Progenitors of gravitational wave mergers: binary evolution with the stellar grid-based code ComBinE

MU Kruckow, TM Tauris, N Langer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The first gravitational wave detections of mergers between black holes and neutron stars
represent a remarkable new regime of high-energy transient astrophysics. The signals …

On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars

A Vigna-Gómez, CJ Neijssel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Double neutron stars (DNSs) have been observed as Galactic radio pulsars, and the recent
discovery of gravitational waves from the DNS merger GW170817 adds to the known DNS …

Posydon: A general-purpose population synthesis code with detailed binary-evolution simulations

T Fragos, JJ Andrews, SS Bavera… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Most massive stars are members of a binary or a higher-order stellar system, where the
presence of a binary companion can decisively alter their evolution via binary interactions …

Host galaxies for four nearby CHIME/FRB sources and the local universe FRB host galaxy population

M Bhardwaj, D Michilli, AY Kirichenko… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the host galaxies of four apparently nonrepeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), FRB
20181223C, FRB 20190418A, FRB 20191220A, and FRB 20190425A, reported in the first …

The Palomar Transient Factory core-collapse supernova host-galaxy sample. I. Host-galaxy distribution functions and environment dependence of core-collapse …

S Schulze, O Yaron, J Sollerman… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Several thousand core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) of different flavors have been
discovered so far. However, identifying their progenitors has remained an outstanding open …

The impact of pair-instability mass loss on the binary black hole mass distribution

S Stevenson, M Sampson, J Powell… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A population of binary black hole mergers has now been observed in gravitational waves by
Advanced LIGO and Virgo. The masses of these black holes appear to show evidence for a …

Chronicling the host galaxy properties of the remarkable repeating FRB 20201124A

W Fong, Y Dong, J Leja, S Bhandari… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder localization and follow-
up observations of the host galaxy of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source, FRB …

Massive runaway and walkaway stars-A study of the kinematical imprints of the physical processes governing the evolution and explosion of their binary progenitors

M Renzo, E Zapartas, SE De Mink, Y Götberg… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
We perform an extensive numerical study of the evolution of massive binary systems to
predict the peculiar velocities that stars obtain when their companion collapses and disrupts …

Periodic fast radio bursts from luminous X-ray binaries

N Sridhar, BD Metzger, P Beniamini… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of periodicity in the arrival times of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) poses a
challenge to the oft-studied magnetar scenarios. However, models that postulate that FRBs …