Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2025-08-05 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
The COMPAS public rapid binary population synthesis code has undergone a number of key improvements since the original COMPAS methods paper (Team COMPAS: Riley et al., 2022) was published. These include more sophisticated and robust treatments of binary interactions: mass transfer physics, common-envelope events, tides and gravitational-wave radiation reaction; and updated prescriptions for stellar evolution, winds and supernovae. The code structure and outputs have also been updated, with a focus on improving resolution without sacrificing computational speed. This paper describes the substantive changes in the code between the previous methods paper and COMPAS v03.22.01.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.02316,
title = {Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II},
author = {Ilya Mandel and Jeff Riley and Adam Boesky and Adam Brcek and Ryosuke Hirai and Veome Kapil and Mike Y. M. Lau and JD Merritt and Nicolás Rodríguez-Segovia and Isobel Romero-Shaw and Yuzhe Song and Simon Stevenson and Avi Vajpeyi and L. A. C. van Son and Alejandro Vigna-Gómez and Reinhold Willcox},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02316},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Updated to match version ApJS accepted version