Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS

Core-collapse supernova explosion theory

(2021) A. Burrows et al.   NATURE

Cygnus X-1 contains a 21–solar mass black hole—Implications for massive star winds

(2021) James C. A. Miller-Jones et al.   SCIENCE

Modelling neutron star–black hole binaries: future pulsar surveys and gravitational wave detectors

(2021) Debatri Chattopadhyay et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Chemically Homogeneous Evolution: A rapid population synthesis approach

(2021) Jeff Riley et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Evidence for three-dimensional spin–velocity alignment in a pulsar

(2021) Jumei Yao et al.   Nature Astronomy

Impact of Massive Binary Star and Cosmic Evolution on Gravitational Wave Observations I: Black Hole – Neutron Star Mergers

(2021) Floor S Broekgaarden et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Formation of the First Two Black Hole–Neutron Star Mergers (GW200115 and GW200105) from Isolated Binary Evolution

(2021) Floor S. Broekgaarden et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Constraints on Weak Supernova Kicks from Observed Pulsar Velocities

(2021) Reinhold Willcox et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

The origin of spin in binary black holes: Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO

(2020) S. S. Bavera et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Contribution from stars stripped in binaries to cosmic reionization of hydrogen and helium

(2020) Y. Götberg et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Detecting double neutron stars with LISA

(2020) Mike Y M Lau et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Missing red supergiants and carbon burning

(2020) Tuguldur Sukhbold et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

(2020) Pauli Virtanen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates for LIGO/Virgo binary black holes

(2020) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

BSE versus StarTrack: implementations of new wind, remnant-formation, and natal-kick schemes in NBODY7 and their astrophysical consequences

(2020) S. Banerjee et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Modelling double neutron stars: radio and gravitational waves

(2020) Debatri Chattopadhyay et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Predictions for the hydrogen-free ejecta of pulsational pair-instability supernovae

(2020) M. Renzo et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Tidal evolution of eccentric binaries driven by convective turbulent viscosity

(2020) Michelle Vick et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The fates of massive stars: exploring uncertainties in stellar evolution with metisse

(2020) Poojan Agrawal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Simple recipes for compact remnant masses and natal kicks

(2020) Ilya Mandel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Be X-ray binaries in the SMC as indicators of mass-transfer efficiency

(2020) Serena Vinciguerra et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Array programming with NumPy

(2020) Charles R. Harris et al.   NATURE

It has to be cool: supergiant progenitors of binary black hole mergers from common-envelope evolution

(2020) J. Klencki et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Effect of binary evolution on the inferred initial and final core masses of hydrogen-rich, Type II supernova progenitors

(2020) E. Zapartas et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Pre-supernova evolution, compact-object masses, and explosion properties of stripped binary stars

(2020) F. R. N. Schneider et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Three-dimensional simulations of neutrino-driven core-collapse supernovae from low-mass single and binary star progenitors

(2019) Bernhard Müller et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The impact of stars stripped in binaries on the integrated spectra of stellar populations

(2019) Y. Götberg et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The diverse lives of progenitors of hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernovae: The role of binary interaction

(2019) E. Zapartas et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

STROOPWAFEL: Simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources*

(2019) Floor S Broekgaarden et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Potential kick velocity distribution of black hole X-ray binaries and implications for natal kicks

(2019) P Atri et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

(2019) B. P. Abbott et al.   Physical Review X

The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers

(2019) Coenraad J Neijssel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Driving classical Wolf-Rayet winds: A Γ- and Z-dependent mass-loss

(2019) Andreas A C Sander et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Luminous Red Novae: population models and future prospects

(2019) George Howitt et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Mass loss of stars on the asymptotic giant branch

(2018) Susanne Höfner et al.   ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW

Accuracy of inference on the physics of binary evolution from gravitational-wave observations

(2018) Jim W Barrett et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The SPHINX Cosmological Simulations of the First Billion Years: the Impact of Binary Stars on Reionization★

(2018) Joakim Rosdahl et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Multidimensional simulations of ultrastripped supernovae to shock breakout

(2018) Bernhard Müller et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Where are the most ancient stars in the Milky Way?

(2018) Kareem El-Badry et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Impact of inter-correlated initial binary parameters on double black hole and neutron star mergers

(2018) J. Klencki et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The progenitors of compact-object binaries: impact of metallicity, common envelope and natal kicks

(2018) Nicola Giacobbo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Neutron star kicks – II. Revision and further testing of the conservation of momentum ‘kick’ model

(2018) J C Bray et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars

(2018) Alejandro Vigna-Gómez et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The influence of the distribution of cosmic star formation at different metallicities on the properties of merging double compact objects

(2018) Martyna Chruslinska et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A consistent estimate for gravitational wave and electromagnetic transient rates

(2018) J J Eldridge et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The Galactic distribution of X-ray binaries and its implications for compact object formation and natal kicks

(2017) Serena Repetto et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The evolution of red supergiant mass-loss rates

(2017) Emma R Beasor et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Merging black hole binaries: the effects of progenitor's metallicity, mass-loss rate and Eddington factor

(2017) Nicola Giacobbo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Very massive stars, pair-instability supernovae and intermediate-mass black holes with the sevn code

(2017) Mario Spera et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis Version 2.1: Construction, Observational Verification, and New Results

(2017) J. J. Eldridge et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

Super-AGB Stars and their Role as Electron Capture Supernova Progenitors

(2017) Carolyn L. Doherty et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

Formation of the first three gravitational-wave observations through isolated binary evolution

(2017) Simon Stevenson et al.   Nature Communications

Systematic survey of the effects of wind mass loss algorithms on the evolution of single massive stars

(2017) M. Renzo et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring

(2017) L. A. Almeida et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The observed velocity distribution of young pulsars

(2017) Frank Verbunt et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Common-envelope ejection in massive binary stars

(2016) M. U. Kruckow et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

A new route towards merging massive black holes

(2016) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Planck2015 results

(2016) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers

(2016) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   Living Reviews in Relativity

Neutron star kicks and their relationship to supernovae ejecta mass

(2016) J. C. Bray et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Light-curve and spectral properties of ultrastripped core-collapse supernovae leading to binary neutron stars

(2016) Takashi J. Moriya et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Mass ejection by pulsational pair instability in very massive stars and implications for luminous supernovae

(2016) Takashi Yoshida et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Binary stars can provide the ‘missing photons’ needed for reionization

(2016) Xiangcheng Ma et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Fast evolving pair-instability supernova models: evolution, explosion, light curves

(2016) Alexandra Kozyreva et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A simple approach to the supernova progenitor–explosion connection

(2016) Bernhard Müller et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in short-period stellar binaries

(2016) Ilya Mandel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Formation of double neutron star systems as implied by observations

(2016) Paz Beniamini et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

(2016) B. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Common-envelope ejection in massive binary stars

(2016) M. U. Kruckow et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

A new route towards merging massive black holes

(2016) Pablo Marchant et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers

(2016) K. Belczynski et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Planck2015 results

(2016) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

(2015) J Aasi et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Evolution of galaxy stellar masses and star formation rates in the eagle simulations

(2015) M. Furlong et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Ultra-stripped supernovae: progenitors and fate

(2015) Thomas M. Tauris et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Neutrino-driven explosions of ultra-stripped Type Ic supernovae generating binary neutron stars

(2015) Yudai Suwa et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation

(2015) Xiangcheng Ma et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Estimates of black hole natal kick velocities from observations of low-mass X-ray binaries

(2015) Ilya Mandel   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Systematic features of axisymmetric neutrino-driven core-collapse supernova models in multiple progenitors

(2015) Ko Nakamura et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Cosmic Star-Formation History

(2014) Piero Madau et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

(2014) Edo Berger   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Mass Loss: Its Effect on the Evolution and Fate of High-Mass Stars

(2014) Nathan Smith   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Explosion and nucleosynthesis of low-redshift pair-instability supernovae

(2014) A. Kozyreva et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Observational properties of low-redshift pair instability supernovae

(2014) A. Kozyreva et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THE COMPACTNESS OF PRESUPERNOVA STELLAR CORES

(2014) Tuguldur Sukhbold et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

TOWARD COMPLETE STATISTICS OF MASSIVE BINARY STARS: PENULTIMATE RESULTS FROM THE CYGNUS OB2 RADIAL VELOCITY SURVEY

(2014) Henry A. Kobulnicky et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

The Evolution of Compact Binary Star Systems

(2014) Konstantin A. Postnov et al.   Living Reviews in Relativity

Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms of spinning, precessing black-hole binaries in the effective-one-body formalism

(2014) Yi Pan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Simple Model of Complete Precessing Black-Hole-Binary Gravitational Waveforms

(2014) Mark Hannam et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Stellar Multiplicity

(2013) Gaspard Duchêne et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

(2013) O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Three-dimensional neutrino-driven supernovae: Neutron star kicks, spins, and asymmetric ejection of nucleosynthesis products

(2013) A. Wongwathanarat et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

(2013) et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Common envelope evolution: where we stand and how we can move forward

(2013) N. Ivanova et al.   ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW

THE ROTATION RATES OF MASSIVE STARS: THE ROLE OF BINARY INTERACTION THROUGH TIDES, MASS TRANSFER, AND MERGERS

(2013) S. E. de Mink et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DOUBLE COMPACT OBJECTS. II. COSMOLOGICAL MERGER RATES

(2013) Michal Dominik et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ULTRA-STRIPPED TYPE Ic SUPERNOVAE FROM CLOSE BINARY EVOLUTION

(2013) T. M. Tauris et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Natal kicks of stellar mass black holes by asymmetric mass ejection in fallback supernovae

(2013) Hans-Thomas Janka   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The death of massive stars - II. Observational constraints on the progenitors of Type Ibc supernovae

(2013) J. J. Eldridge et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Presupernova Evolution of Massive Single and Binary Stars

(2012) N. Langer   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

DIRECTN-BODY MODELING OF THE OLD OPEN CLUSTER NGC 188: A DETAILED COMPARISON OF THEORETICAL AND OBSERVED BINARY STAR AND BLUE STRAGGLER POPULATIONS

(2012) Aaron M. Geller et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Supernova Type Ia progenitors from merging double white dwarfs

(2012) S. Toonen et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

(2012) P. L. Dufton et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

COMPACT REMNANT MASS FUNCTION: DEPENDENCE ON THE EXPLOSION MECHANISM AND METALLICITY

(2012) Chris L. Fryer et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DOUBLE COMPACT OBJECTS. I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMMON ENVELOPE ON MERGER RATES

(2012) Michal Dominik et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

RUNAWAY STARS AND THE ESCAPE OF IONIZING RADIATION FROM HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES

(2012) Charlie Conroy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

PROGENITOR-EXPLOSION CONNECTION AND REMNANT BIRTH MASSES FOR NEUTRINO-DRIVEN SUPERNOVAE OF IRON-CORE PROGENITORS

(2012) Marcella Ugliano et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A spectroscopic survey on the multiplicity of high-mass stars

(2012) R. Chini et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Pulsar spin-velocity alignment: further results and discussion

(2012) A. Noutsos et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars

(2012) H. Sana et al.   SCIENCE

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS FOR THE ENVELOPE BINDING ENERGY OF GIANTS AS A FUNCTION OF BASIC STELLAR PARAMETERS

(2011) A. J. Loveridge et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON THE FORMATION OF DOUBLE WHITE DWARFS THROUGH STABLE MASS TRANSFER AND A COMMON ENVELOPE

(2011) T. E. Woods et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Sensitivity studies for third-generation gravitational wave observatories

(2011) S Hild et al.   CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY

Population synthesis of double neutron stars

(2011) S. Osłowski et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

ERRATUM: “ON THE BINDING ENERGY PARAMETER λ OF COMMON ENVELOPE EVOLUTION” (2010, ApJ, 716, 114)

(2010) Xiao-Jie Xu et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION OF NEUTRON-STAR MASSES

(2010) J. Schwab et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON THE BINDING ENERGY PARAMETER λ OF COMMON ENVELOPE EVOLUTION

(2010) Xiao-Jie Xu et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON THE MAXIMUM MASS OF STELLAR BLACK HOLES

(2010) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Massive binary evolution

(2010) Philipp Podsiadlowski   NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS

Magnetic Fields of Nondegenerate Stars

(2009) J.-F. Donati et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Chemical Composition of the Sun

(2009) Martin Asplund et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Population synthesis of binary carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars

(2009) R. G. Izzard et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Description of the “Scenario Machine”

(2009) V. M. Lipunov et al.   ASTRONOMY REPORTS

Formation and evolution of compact binaries in globular clusters – II. Binaries with neutron stars

(2008) N. Ivanova et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Populating the Galaxy with pulsars I. Stellar and binary evolution

(2008) Paul D. Kiel et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Compact Object Modeling with the StarTrack Population Synthesis Code

(2007) Krzysztof Belczynski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES