Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS

T Compas, J Riley, P Agrawal, JW Barrett… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (COMPAS;
https://compas. science) is a public rapid binary population synthesis code. COMPAS …

Calibration of neutron star natal kick velocities to isolated pulsar observations

V Kapil, I Mandel, E Berti, B Müller - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Current prescriptions for supernova natal kicks in rapid binary population synthesis
simulations are based on fits of simple functions to single pulsar velocity data. We explore a …

The impact of angular momentum loss on the outcomes of binary mass transfer

R Willcox, M MacLeod, I Mandel… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the rapid binary population synthesis code COMPAS to investigate commonly used
prescriptions for the determination of mass transfer stability in close binaries and the orbital …

Surrogate forward models for population inference on compact binary mergers

J Riley, I Mandel - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapidly growing catalogs of compact binary mergers from advanced gravitational wave
detectors allow us to explore the astrophysics of massive stellar binaries. Merger …

Common envelope jets supernova with thermonuclear outburst progenitor for the enigmatic supernova remnant W49B

A Grichener, N Soker - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We suggest a common envelope jets supernova (CEJSN) origin to the supernova remnant
(SNR) W49B where jets launched by a neutron star (NS) that collapsed to a black hole (BH) …

Active Learning for Computationally Efficient Distribution of Binary Evolution Simulations

KA Rocha, JJ Andrews, CPL Berry… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Binary stars undergo a variety of interactions and evolutionary phases, critical for predicting
and explaining observations. Binary population synthesis with full simulation of stellar …

Theoretical expectations for high-mass X-ray binaries, supernova remnants, and their evolutionary paths: An overview talk for LIAC41: the eventful life of stellar …

I Mandel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.07747, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this invited talk at the 41st Li\ege International Astrophysical Colloquium on" The eventful
life of massive star multiples", I reviewed some aspects of our current understanding of …

Predicting gravitational wave signals from BPASS White Dwarf Binary and Black Hole Binary populations of a Milky Way-like galaxy model for LISA

P Tang, J Eldridge, R Meyer, A Lamberts… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Galactic white dwarf binaries (WDBs) and black hole binaries (BHBs) will be gravitational
wave (GW) sources for LISA. Their detection will provide insights into binary evolution and …

Bayesian Methods for Inferring Missing Data in the BATSE Catalog of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

A Shahmoradi, JA Osborne, F Bagheri - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The knowledge of the redshifts of Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) is essential
for constraining their cosmic rates and thereby the rates of related astrophysical …

Hot Jupiter engulfment by a red giant in 3D hydrodynamics

MYM Lau, M Cantiello, AS Jermyn, M MacLeod… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Transit and radial-velocity surveys over the past two decades have uncovered a significant
population of short-period exoplanets. Among them are hot Jupiters, which are gas giant …