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Many, possibly most, stars form in binary and higher-order multiple systems. Therefore, the properties and frequency of binary systems provide strong clues to the star-formation process, and constraints on star-formation models. However,…

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The evolution of binary stellar systems involves a wide range of physical processes, many of which are not yet well understood. We aim to build a general-purpose algorithm based on inverse population synthesis techniques, able to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Santiago Torres , Marta Gili , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Alejandro Santos-García , Alex J. Brown , Steven G. Parsons

Most massive stars are members of a binary or a higher-order stellar systems, where the presence of a binary companion can decisively alter their evolution via binary interactions. Interacting binaries are also important astrophysical…

Whether considering rare astrophysical events on cosmological scales or unresolved stellar populations, accurate models must account for the integrated contribution from the entire history of star formation upon which that population is…

The construction of accurate and consistent initial data for various binary parameters is a critical ingredient for numerical relativity simulations of the compact binary coalescence. In this article, we present an upgrade of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-25 Wolfgang Tichy , Alireza Rashti , Tim Dietrich , Reetika Dudi , Bernd Brügmann

We investigate the formation of binary stellar systems. We consider a model where a `seed' protobinary system forms, via fragmentation, within a collapsing molecular cloud core and evolves to its final mass by accreting material from an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthew R. Bate

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

We produce synthetic populations of pulsars within our Galaxy and calculate the resulting scale heights as well as the radial and space velocity distributions of the pulsars. Results are presented for isolated pulsars, binary pulsars and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Kiel , Jarrod Hurley

The last decade of observational and theoretical developments in stellar and binary evolution provides an opportunity to incorporate major improvements to the predictions from populations synthesis models. We compute the Galactic merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Michal Dominik , Krzysztof Belczynski , Christopher Fryer , Daniel Holz , Emanuele Berti , Tomasz Bulik , Ilya Mandel , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Binaries are very common in galaxies, and more than half of Galactic hot subdwarf stars, which are thought as a possible origin of UV-upturn of old stellar populations, are found in binaries. Previous works showed that binary evolution can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhongmu Li , Caiyan Mao , Li Chen , Qian Zhang , Maocai Li

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are laboratories for stellar evolution, strong gravity, and ultra-dense matter. Although MSPs are thought to originate in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), approximately 27% lack a binary companion, and others are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 S. Chanlaridis , D. Ohse , D. E. Alvarez-Castillo , J. Antoniadis , D. Blaschke , V. Danchev , N. Langer , D. Misra

Subdwarf B stars are a well-known class of hot, low-mass stars thought to be formed through interactions in stellar binary systems. While different formation channels for subdwarf B stars have been studied through a binary population…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Nicolás Rodríguez-Segovia , Ashley J. Ruiter , Ivo R. Seitenzahl

We want to understand global observable consequences of different physical processes and initial properties on the demographics of the planetary population. We use the Generation III Bern model to perform planetary population synthesis. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Alexandre Emsenhuber , Christoph Mordasini , Remo Burn , Yann Alibert , Willy Benz , Erik Asphaug

We use population synthesis modelling to predict the gravitational wave (GW) signal that the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect from the Galactic population of compact binary systems. We implement a realistic star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Jake McMillan , Adam Ingram , Cordelia Dashwood Brown , Andrei Igoshev , Matthew Middleton , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Simone Scaringi

The simulated rates of NS+NS, NS+BH and BH+BH mergings are considered in relation with the problem of GRBursts origin and gravitational waves detection.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir M. Lipunov

Two neutron star (NS)-black hole (BH) binaries, GW200105 and GW200115 found in the LIGO/Virgo O3b run have smaller BH mass of 6--9\,$M_{\odot}$ which is consistent with Population I and II origin. Our population synthesis simulations using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Tomoya Kinugawa , Takashi Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakano

Massive star evolution plays a crucial role in astrophysics but bares large uncertainties. This problem becomes more severe by the majority of massive stars being born in close binary systems, whose evolution is affected by the interaction…

BONNFIRES, a new generation of population synthesis code, can calculate nuclear reaction, various mixing processes and binary interaction in a timely fashion. We use this new population synthesis code to study the interplay between binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Herbert H. B. Lau , Robert G. Izzard , Fabian R. N. Schneider

The formation histories of compact binary mergers, especially stellar-mass binary-black hole mergers, have recently come under increased scrutiny and revision. In this paper we revisit the question of the dominant formation channel and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-28 Monica Gallegos-Garcia , Christopher P L Berry , Vicky Kalogera

Previous work concerning planet formation around low-mass stars has often been limited to large planets and individual systems. As current surveys routinely detect planets down to terrestrial size in these systems, a more holistic approach…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Remo Burn , Martin Schlecker , Christoph Mordasini , Alexandre Emsenhuber , Yann Alibert , Thomas Henning , Hubert Klahr , Willy Benz