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In this dissertation, we estimate the population of different classes of BNS systems that are visible to gravitational-wave observatories. Given that no ultra-compact BNS systems have been discovered in pulsar radio surveys, we place a 95\%…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-12 Nihan Pol

In the past five years, the number of known double neutron stars (DNS) in the Milky Way has roughly doubled. We argue that the observed sample can be split into three distinct sub-populations based on their orbital characteristics: (i)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-09 Jeff J. Andrews , Ilya Mandel

The work presented here examines populations of double compact binary systems and tidally enhanced collapsars. We make use of BINPOP and BINKIN, two components of a recently developed population synthesis package. Results focus on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Paul Kiel , Jarrod Hurley , Matthew Bailes

Information about the last stages of a binary neutron star inspiral and the final merger can be extracted from quasi-equilibrium configurations and dynamical evolutions. In this article, we construct quasi-equilibrium configurations for…

In this paper we present a brief overview of population synthesis methods with a discussion of their main advantages and disadvantages. In the second part, we present some recent results from synthesis models of close binary compact objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. Kalogera , K. Belczynski

We employ population synthesis method to model the double neutron star (DNS) population and test various possibilities on natal kick velocities gained by neutron stars after their formation. We first choose natal kicks after standard core…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Martyna Chruslinska , Krzysztof Belczynski , Tomasz Bulik , Wojciech Gladysz

Binary neutron star mergers are one of the ultimate events of massive binary star evolution, and our understanding of their parent system is still in its infancy. Upcoming gravitational wave detections, coupled with multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 Heloise F. Stevance , Jan J. Eldridge , Elizabeth R. Stanway , Joe Lyman , Anna F. McLeod , Andrew J. Levan

Measuring the merger rate density history of binary neutron stars (BNS) can greatly aid in understanding the history of heavy element formation in the Universe. Currently, second-generation Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors can only measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Yun-Fei Du , Emre Seyit Yorgancioglu , Shu-Xu Yi , Tian-Yong Cao , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Binary interactions lead to the formation of intriguing objects, such as compact binaries, supernovae, gamma ray bursts, X-ray binaries, pulsars, novae, cataclysmic variables, hot subdwarf stars, barium stars, and blue stragglers. To study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Zhanwen Han , Hongwei Ge , Xuefei Chen , Hailiang Chen

Mergers of black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries have now been observed by GW detectors with the recent announcement of GW200105 and GW200115. Such observations not only provide confirmation that these systems exist, but will also give…

Star clusters appear to be the ideal environment for the assembly of neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) and black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries. These binaries are among the most interesting astrophysical objects, being potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Giacomo Fragione , Sambaran Banerjee

Multi-messenger astronomy was galvanized by the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 and electromagnetic (EM) emission from the subsequent kilonova and short gamma ray burst. Maximizing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb , Matt Nicholl , Isabelle Worssam , Benjamin P. Gompertz

We perform a hierarchical Bayesian inference to investigate the population properties of the coalescing compact binaries involving at least one neutron star (NS). With the current observation data, we can not rule out either of the Double…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Yin-Jie Li , Shao-Peng Tang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Gravitational wave detectors are observing compact object mergers from increasingly far distances, revealing the redshift evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) -- and soon the black hole-neutron star (BHNS) and binary neutron star (BNS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-06 Adam Boesky , Floor S. Broekgaarden , Edo Berger

Population synthesis is used to model the number of neutron stars in globular clusters that are observed as LMXBs and millisecond PSRs. The dynamical interaction between binary and single stars in a GC are assumed to take place with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Kuranov , K. A. Postnov

Population-synthesis codes are an unique tool to explore the parameter space of massive binary star evolution and binary compact object (BCO) formation. Most population-synthesis codes are based on the same stellar evolution model, limiting…

The formation and evolution of double neutron stars (DNS) have traditionally been studied using binary population synthesis. In this work, we take an alternative approach by focusing only on the second supernova (SN) forming the DNS and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Jeff J. Andrews , Andreas Zezas

Gravitational waves produced from the merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) are accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts, making it possible to identify the associated host galaxy. We explore how properties of the host galaxies relate to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Susmita Adhikari , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz , Risa H. Wechsler , Zhanpei Fang

We investigate the properties of the host galaxies of compact binary mergers across cosmic time, by means of population-synthesis simulations combined with galaxy catalogues from the EAGLE suite. We analyze the merger rate per galaxy of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Celeste Artale , Michela Mapelli , Yann Bouffanais , Nicola Giacobbo , Mario Spera , Mario Pasquato

Binary population synthesis is the method by which predictions of varied observables of stellar populations can be made from theoretical models of binary stellar evolution. Binary stars have many more possible evolutionary outcomes compared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-15 J. J. Eldridge