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Publications (5)

astro-ph.IM2025

RESOLVE: Rare Event Surrogate Likelihood for Gravitational Wave Paleontology Parameter Estimation

Ann-Kathrin Schuetz, Alexander Migala, Adam Boesky +3

The first detection of gravitational waves, recognized by the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, has opened up a new research field: gravitational-wave paleontology. When massive stars e…

astro-ph.HE2024

Investigating the Cosmological Rate of Compact Object Mergers from Isolated Massive Binary Stars

Adam Boesky, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger

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 b…

astro-ph.SR2025

Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II

Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley, Adam Boesky +13

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 pu…

astro-ph.HE2025

SPLASH: A Rapid Host-Based Supernova Classifier for Wide-Field Time-Domain Surveys

Adam Boesky, V. Ashley Villar, Alexander Gagliano +1

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will detect millions of supernovae (SNe) and generate millions of nightly alerts, far…

astro-ph.HE2024

The Binary Black Hole Merger Rate Deviates From the Cosmic Star Formation Rate: A Tug of War Between Metallicity and Delay Times

Adam Boesky, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger

Gravitational-wave detectors are now making it possible to investigate how the merger rate of binary black holes (BBHs) evolves with redshift. In this study, we examine whether the…