papers

Publications (196)

astro-ph.HE2020

Merger rates in primordial black hole clusters without initial binaries

Valeriya Korol, Ilya Mandel, M. Coleman Miller +2

astro-ph.HE2023

An upper limit on the spins of merging binary black holes formed through binary evolution

Pablo Marchant, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Ilya Mandel

gr-qc2017

Accelerating gravitational wave parameter estimation with multi-band template interpolation

Serena Vinciguerra, John Veitch, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2022

Rates of Compact Object Coalescences

Ilya Mandel, Floor S. Broekgaarden

astro-ph.HE2021

Cygnus X-1 contains a 21-solar mass black hole -- implications for massive star winds

James C. A. Miller-Jones, Arash Bahramian, Jerome A. Orosz +23

astro-ph.SR2026

Evolution of Massive Main-sequence Stars in Rapid Population Synthesis. I. Framework and Implementation

Adam Brček, Ryosuke Hirai, Ilya Mandel +1

astro-ph.HE2019

Unmodelled Clustering Methods for Gravitational Wave Populations of Compact Binary Mergers

Jade Powell, Simon Stevenson, Ilya Mandel +1

astro-ph.HE2016

Merging binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in short-period stellar binaries

Ilya Mandel, Selma E. de Mink

astro-ph.HE2020

On the maximum stellar rotation to form a black hole without an accompanying luminous transient

Ariadna Murguia-Berthier, Aldo Batta, Agnieszka Janiuk +4

astro-ph.SR2013

Constraining the luminosity function parameters and population size of radio pulsars in globular clusters

Jayanth Chennamangalam, D. R. Lorimer, Ilya Mandel +1

astro-ph.HE2023

An Observationally-Derived Kick Distribution for Neutron Stars in Binary Systems

Tyrone N. O'Doherty, Arash Bahramian, James C. A. Miller-Jones +5

astro-ph.SR2026

Continuous mass ablation of planets engulfed in stellar envelopes

Mike Y. M. Lau, Robert Andrassy, Giovanni Leidi +4

astro-ph.HE2022

Can neutron star mergers alone explain the r-process enrichment of the Milky Way?

Chiaki Kobayashi, Ilya Mandel, Krzysztof Belczynski +9

astro-ph.HE2017

The astrophysical science case for a decihertz gravitational-wave detector

Ilya Mandel, Alberto Sesana, Alberto Vecchio

math-ph2003

Potential and field singularity at a surface point charge

Alexander Silbergleit, Ilya Mandel, Ilya Nemenman

gr-qc2014

Parameter estimation on compact binary coalescences with abruptly terminating gravitational waveforms

Ilya Mandel, Christopher P L Berry, Frank Ohme +2

gr-qc2008

Parameter estimation of spinning binary inspirals using Markov-chain Monte Carlo

Marc van der Sluys, Vivien Raymond, Ilya Mandel +5

astro-ph.HE2023

Optical Appearance of Eccentric Tidal Disruption Events

Fangyi, Hu, Daniel J. Price +1

astro-ph.IM2014

Counting And Confusion: Bayesian Rate Estimation With Multiple Populations

Will M. Farr, Jonathan R. Gair, Ilya Mandel +1

astro-ph.HE2017

Ultra-luminous X-ray sources and neutron-star-black-hole mergers from very massive close binaries at low metallicity

Pablo Marchant, Norbert Langer, Philipp Podsiadlowski +4

astro-ph.HE2025

Interpretation of the binary black hole mass spectrum

Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2019

Astrophysical science metrics for next-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Rana X Adhikari, P Ajith, Yanbei Chen +8

gr-qc2009

Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project

Benjamin Aylott, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs +74

astro-ph.HE2024

Bumpy Superluminous Supernovae Powered by a Magnetar-star Binary Engine

Jin-Ping Zhu, Liang-Duan Liu, Yun-Wei Yu +4

astro-ph.HE2024

GW190521: tracing imprints of spin-precession on the most massive black hole binary

Simona J. Miller, Maximiliano Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou +2

astro-ph.HE2023

Rapid population synthesis of black-hole high-mass X-ray binaries: implications for binary stellar evolution

Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Ryosuke Hirai, Arash Bahramian +2

gr-qc2009

Can we Detect Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals?

Ilya Mandel, Jonathan R. Gair

astro-ph.HE2018

The orbit of GW170817 was inclined by less than 28 degrees to the line of sight

Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2024

Eddington envelopes: The fate of stars on parabolic orbits tidally disrupted by supermassive black holes

Daniel J. Price, David Liptai, Ilya Mandel +3

astro-ph.HE2019

STROOPWAFEL: Simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources

Floor S. Broekgaarden, Stephen Justham, Selma E. de Mink +6

astro-ph.SR2024

Fits for the convective envelope mass in massive stars

Lewis Picker, Ryosuke Hirai, Ilya Mandel

gr-qc2014

Testing general relativity with compact coalescing binaries: comparing exact and predictive methods to compute the Bayes factor

Walter Del Pozzo, Katherine Grover, Ilya Mandel +1

astro-ph.HE2014

The First Two Years of Electromagnetic Follow-Up with Advanced LIGO and Virgo

Leo P. Singer, Larry R. Price, Ben Farr +13

astro-ph.SR2022

Empirical Stability Boundary for Hierarchical Triples

Max Tory, Evgeni Grishin, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.IM2018

saprEMo: a simplified algorithm for predicting detections of electromagnetic transients in surveys

Serena Vinciguerra, Marica Branchesi, Riccardo Ciolfi +3

astro-ph.HE2017

Hierarchical analysis of gravitational-wave measurements of binary black hole spin-orbit misalignments

Simon Stevenson, Christopher P. L. Berry, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2013

Utility of galaxy catalogs for following up gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers with wide-field telescopes

Chad Hanna, Ilya Mandel, Will Vousden

gr-qc2021

Bayesian inference for gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers in third-generation observatories

Rory Smith, Ssohrab Borhanian, Bangalore Sathyaprakash +10

astro-ph.GA2011

The Mass Distribution of Stellar-Mass Black Holes

Will M. Farr, Niharika Sravan, Andrew Cantrell +4

astro-ph.SR2019

Eclipses of continuous gravitational waves as a probe of stellar structure

Pablo Marchant, Katelyn Breivik, Christopher P. L. Berry +2

astro-ph.SR2022

A two-stage formalism for common-envelope phases of massive stars

Ryosuke Hirai, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2017

Exploring the Parameter Space of Compact Binary Population Synthesis

Jim W. Barrett, Ilya Mandel, Coenraad J. Neijssel +2

gr-qc2015

Robust parameter estimation for compact binaries with ground-based gravitational-wave observations using the LALInference software library

John Veitch, Vivien Raymond, Benjamin Farr +24

astro-ph.HE2020

An alternative interpretation of GW190412 as a binary black hole merger with a rapidly spinning secondary

Ilya Mandel, Tassos Fragos

astro-ph.HE2024

Constraints on neutrino natal kicks from black-hole binary VFTS 243

Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Reinhold Willcox, Irene Tamborra +8

astro-ph.CO2010

Exploring intermediate and massive black-hole binaries with the Einstein Telescope

Jonathan R. Gair, Ilya Mandel, M. Coleman Miller +1

astro-ph.HE2025

Prompt Periodicity in the GRB 211211A Precursor: Black-hole or magnetar engine?

Gavin P. Lamb, Thomas Baxter, Conor M. B. Omand +18

astro-ph.HE2013

Double Compact Objects II: Cosmological Merger Rates

Michal Dominik, Krzysztof Belczynski, Christopher Fryer +5

astro-ph.SR2023

The Impact of Angular Momentum Loss on the Outcomes of Binary Mass Transfer

Reinhold Willcox, Morgan MacLeod, Ilya Mandel +1

gr-qc2016

Limits of Astrophysics with Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds

Thomas Callister, Letizia Sammut, Shi Qiu +2

astro-ph.HE2020

Simple recipes for compact remnant masses and natal kicks

Ilya Mandel, Bernhard Müller

astro-ph.HE2019

Explosions Driven by the Coalescence of a Compact Object with the Core of a Massive-Star Companion Inside a Common Envelope: Circumstellar Properties, Light Curves, and Population Statistics

Sophie Lund Schrøder, Morgan MacLeod, Abraham Loeb +2

astro-ph.IM2013

Electromagnetic transients as triggers in searches for gravitational waves from compact binary mergers

Luke Zoltan Kelley, Ilya Mandel, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

astro-ph.HE2025

The metallicity dependence of long-duration gamma-ray bursts

Paul Disberg, Anne Lankreijer, Martyna Chruślińska +5

gr-qc2025

Rarity of precession and higher-order multipoles in gravitational waves from merging binary black holes

Charlie Hoy, Stephen Fairhurst, Ilya Mandel

gr-qc2008

Improved time-frequency analysis of extreme-mass-ratio inspiral signals in mock LISA data

Jonathan R Gair, Ilya Mandel, Linqing Wen

astro-ph2008

Rates and Characteristics of Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals Detectable by Advanced LIGO

Ilya Mandel, Duncan A. Brown, Jonathan R. Gair +1

astro-ph.IM2016

Dynamic temperature selection for parallel-tempering in Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations

Will Vousden, Will M. Farr, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2026

Semi-Analytical Model for the Evolution of Stellar Binaries in the Empty Loss Cone of Massive Black Holes

Samuel McGuire, Evgeni Grishin, Ilya Mandel +1

astro-ph.HE2025

What is the most massive gravitational-wave source?

Ilya Mandel

gr-qc2005

The geometry of a naked singularity created by standing waves near a Schwarzschild horizon, and its application to the binary black hole problem

Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2015

Parameter estimation for binary neutron-star coalescences with realistic noise during the Advanced LIGO era

Christopher P. L. Berry, Ilya Mandel, Hannah Middleton +15

gr-qc2008

Observable Properties of Orbits in Exact Bumpy Spacetimes

Jonathan R Gair, Chao Li, Ilya Mandel

gr-qc2009

Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

Benjamin Aylott, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs +74

physics.data-an2019

Extracting distribution parameters from multiple uncertain observations with selection biases

Ilya Mandel, Will M. Farr, Jonathan R. Gair

astro-ph.SR2026

Modern tidal interaction models for rapid binary population synthesis: I. Methods

Veome Kapil, Ilya Mandel, Evgeni Grishin +3

astro-ph.HE2021

Impact of Massive Binary Star and Cosmic Evolution on Gravitational Wave Observations I: Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers

Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger, Coenraad J. Neijssel +7

astro-ph.SR2026

The Sun's chemical peculiarity: disentangling Galactic chemical evolution and planetary engulfment in solar twins

Mia Babatsikos, Fan Liu, Amanda Karakas +5

astro-ph.SR2021

Wind mass-loss rates of stripped stars inferred from Cygnus X-1

Coenraad J. Neijssel, Serena Vinciguerra, Alejandro Vigna-Gomez +5

astro-ph.SR2022

Common envelopes in massive stars: Towards the role of radiation pressure and recombination energy in ejecting red supergiant envelopes

Mike Y. M. Lau, Ryosuke Hirai, Miguel González-Bolívar +3

astro-ph.IM2013

Inadequacies of the Fisher Information Matrix in gravitational-wave parameter estimation

Carl L. Rodriguez, Benjamin Farr, Will M. Farr +1

astro-ph.IM2015

Efficient method for measuring the parameters encoded in a gravitational-wave signal

Carl-Johan Haster, Ilya Mandel, Will M. Farr

astro-ph.HE2026

Reconciling the Systemic Kicks of Observed Millisecond Pulsars, Spider Pulsars, and Low-mass X-ray Binaries

Paul Disberg, Arash Bahramian, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.SR2015

Double tidal disruptions in galactic nuclei

Ilya Mandel, Yuri Levin

astro-ph.HE2019

Double Neutron Star Populations and Formation Channels

Jeff J. Andrews, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2017

Distinguishing Spin-Aligned and Isotropic Black Hole Populations With Gravitational Waves

Will M. Farr, Simon Stevenson, M. Coleman Miller +3

astro-ph.SR2025

Hot Jupiter engulfment by a red giant in 3D hydrodynamics

Mike Y. M. Lau, Matteo Cantiello, Adam S. Jermyn +3

astro-ph.CO2009

Observing gravitational waves from the first generation of black holes

Alberto Sesana, Jonathan Gair, Ilya Mandel +1

gr-qc2022

Building better spin models for merging binary black holes: Evidence for non-spinning and rapidly spinning nearly aligned sub-populations

Shanika Galaudage, Colm Talbot, Tushar Nagar +3

astro-ph.HE2018

Late-time Evolution of Afterglows from Off-Axis Neutron-Star Mergers

Gavin P Lamb, Ilya Mandel, Lekshmi Resmi

astro-ph.HE2011

Estimating parameters of coalescing compact binaries with a detector network including LIGO Australia

Benjamin Aylott, Benjamin Farr, Vassiliki Kalogera +6

gr-qc2009

Massive Black Hole Binary Inspirals: Results from the LISA Parameter Estimation Taskforce

K. G. Arun, Stas Babak, Emanuele Berti +14

astro-ph.SR2019

Common Envelope Wind Tunnel: The Effects of Binary Mass Ratio and Implications for the Accretion-Driven Growth of LIGO Binary Black Holes

Soumi De, Morgan MacLeod, Rosa Wallace Everson +3

astro-ph.HE2017

Stellar binaries in galactic nuclei: tidally stimulated mergers followed by tidal disruptions

Ben Bradnick, Ilya Mandel, Yuri Levin

gr-qc2012

Hubble without the Hubble: cosmology using advanced gravitational-wave detectors alone

Stephen R. Taylor, Jonathan R. Gair, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.HE2013

Characterising gravitational wave stochastic background anisotropy with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Trevor Sidery, Ilya Mandel +1

astro-ph.HE2016

Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from neutron-star binaries with spinning components

Ben Farr, Christopher P. L. Berry, Will M. Farr +14

astro-ph.HE2020

The origin of spin in binary black holes: Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Ying Qin +7

astro-ph.SR2025

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

Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley, Adam Boesky +13

astro-ph.HE2010

Unraveling Binary Evolution from Gravitational-Wave Signals and Source Statistics

Ilya Mandel, Vicky Kalogera, Richard O'Shaughnessy

astro-ph.SR2023

Surrogate forward models for population inference on compact binary mergers

Jeff Riley, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.SR2020

Constraining the masses of microlensing black holes and the mass gap with Gaia DR2

Łukasz Wyrzykowski, Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.SR2026

Implications of modern mass-loss rates for massive stars

JD Merritt, Simon Stevenson, Andreas Sander +7

astro-ph.HE2021

An accurate analytical fit to the gravitational-wave inspiral duration for eccentric binaries

Ilya Mandel

astro-ph.SR2026

On Bimodality in the Eccentricity Distribution of Galactic Double Neutron Stars

Aldana Grichener, Paul Disberg, Ryosuke Hirai +1

astro-ph.HE2020

Luminous Red Novae: population models and future prospects

George Howitt, Simon Stevenson, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez +5

astro-ph.SR2020

Common-Envelope Episodes that lead to Double Neutron Star formation

Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Morgan MacLeod, Coenraad J. Neijssel +6

astro-ph.HE2024

How to Escape from a Trap: Outcomes of Repeated Black Hole Mergers in AGN

Shmuel Gilbaum, Evgeni Grishin, Nicholas C. Stone +1

gr-qc2007

Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge

Stanislav Babak, John G. Baker, Matthew J. Benacquista +40

astro-ph.HE2020

The spectral evolution of AT 2018dyb and the presence of metal lines in tidal disruption events

Giorgos Leloudas, Lixin Dai, Iair Arcavi +29