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A review of the basic principles of the population synthesis for binary stars is presented. We discuss the break-up of low and intermediate mass close binaries over different evolutionary scenarios and, as an example, briefly consider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. R. Yungelson

Binary population synthesis (BPS) employs prescriptions to predict final fates, explosion or implosion, and remnant masses based on one or two stellar parameters at the evolutionary cutoff imposed by the code, usually at or near central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Rachel A. Patton , Tuguldur Sukhbold , J. J. Eldridge

Both rotation and interactions with binary companions can significantly affect massive star evolution, altering interior and surface abundances, mass loss rates and mechanisms, observed temperatures and luminosities, and their ultimate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein , Emily M. Levesque

Binary population synthesis (BPS) modelling is a very effective tool to study the evolution and properties of close binary systems. The uncertainty in the parameters of the model and their effect on a population can be tested in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Toonen , J. S. W. Claeys , N. Mennekens , A. J. Ruiter

Massive binary evolution models are needed to predict massive star populations in star forming galaxies, the supernova diversity, and the number and properties of gravitational wave sources. Such models are often computed using so called…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Christoph Schürmann , Norbert Langer , Joana A. Kramer , Pablo Marchant , Chen Wang , Koushik Sen

Double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are natural outcomes of binary stellar evolution and key sources for future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We investigate how different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Sreeta Roy , Surajit Kalita

We developed a new population synthesis code for groups of massive stars, where we model the emission of different forms of energy and matter from the stars of the association. In particular, the ejection of the two radioactive isotopes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Voss , R. Diehl , D. H. Hartmann , M. Cervino , J. S. Vink , G. Meynet , M. Limongi , A. Chieffi

Our uncertainties about binary star systems (and triples and so on) limit our capabilities in literally every single one of the Thematic Areas identified for Astro2020. We need to understand the population statistics of stellar multiplicity…

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors are expected to detect millions of compact binary mergers across cosmological distances. The features of the mass distribution of these mergers, combined with gravitational wave distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Soumendra Kishore Roy , Lieke A. C. van Son , Anarya Ray , Will M. Farr

Binaries that contain a hot subdwarf (sdB) star and a main sequence companion may have interacted in the past. This binary population has historically helped determine our understanding of binary stellar evolution. We have computed a grid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Drew Clausen , Richard A Wade , Ravi kumar Kopparapu , Richard O'Shaughnessy

We present a rapid binary evolution algorithm that enables modelling of even the most complex binary systems. In addition to all aspects of single star evolution, features such as mass transfer, mass accretion, common-envelope evolution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jarrod R. Hurley , Christopher A. Tout , Onno R. Pols

Binary population synthesis (BPS) study provides a comprehensive way to understand evolutions of binaries and their end products. Close white dwarf (WD) binaries have crucial characteristics in examining in uence of yetunresolved physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-22 Iminhaji Ablimit , Keiichi Maeda , Xiang-Dong Li

Stellar population synthesis can be approached as an inverse problem. The physical information is extracted from the observations through an inverse model. The process requires the transformation of the observational errors into model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Moultaka , D. Pelat

The first version of the Binary Population Synthesizer (BiPoS1) is made publicly available. It allows to efficiently calculate binary distribution functions after the dynamical processing of a realistic population of binary stars during the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-12 J. Dabringhausen , M. Marks , P. Kroupa

Populations of massive stars are directly reflective of the physics of stellar evolution. Counting subtypes of massive stars and ratios of massive stars in different evolutionary states have been used ubiquitously as diagnostics of age and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein , Emily M. Levesque

This document describes BinCodex, a common format for the output of binary population synthesis (BPS) codes agreed upon by the members of the LISA Synthetic UCB Catalogue Group. The goal of the format is to provide a common reference…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Ruggero Valli , Luca Graziani , the LISA Synthetic UCB Catalogue Group

Space-based photometry has substantially increased the number of pulsating stars found in binary systems by more than four orders of magnitude. Combined with high-resolution spectroscopy, high-precision photometry offers model-independent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Ema Šipková , Alex Kemp , Dario Fritzewski , Andrew Tkachenko , Dominic M. Bowman , Conny Aerts , Jasmine Vrancken

Models of population synthesis for the Galaxy have been developed in order to understand galactic structure and evolution. They allow to test scenarii of evolution by comparisons between model predictions and observed distributions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. C. Robin

Using the StarTrack binary population synthesis code we model the population of double neutron stars in the Galaxy. We include a detailed treatment of the spin evolution of each pulsar due to processes such as spin-down and spin-up during…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-15 S. Oslowski , T. Bulik , D. Gondek-Rosinska , K. Belczynski

Binary population synthesis (BPS) is an essential tool for extracting information about massive binary evolution from gravitational-wave (GW) detections of compact object mergers. It has been successfully used to constrain the most likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 L. M. de Sá , A. Bernardo , L. S. Rocha , R. R. A. Bachega , J. E. Horvath