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Publications (11)

astro-ph.SR2025

The evolution of accretor stars in binary systems due to accretion of increasingly helium-rich material

Sean Richards, Jan Eldridge, Sohan Ghodla +1

The recent discovery of examples of intermediate-mass helium stars have offered new insights into interacting binaries. These observations will allow significant improvements in ou…

astro-ph.SR2026

Stellar Population Spectra Incorporating Detailed Binary Evolution using POSYDON

Eirini Kasdagli, Jeff J. Andrews, Bret Lehmer +8

The accuracy of stellar population properties inferred through spectral energy distribution fitting hinges on the reliability of the underlying spectral models. Binary interactions…

astro-ph.SR2026

Double Neutron Star Delay Times Across Cosmic Metallicities: The Role of Helium Star Progenitors

Abhishek Chattaraj, Jeff J. Andrews, Max Briel +5

Metallicity can play a significant role in massive binary evolution through its impact on the opacity within stellar interiors and wind-driven mass loss. In this work, we investiga…

astro-ph.SR2024

Mass Transfer in Eccentric Orbits with Self-consistent Stellar Evolution

Kyle Akira Rocha, Rachel Hur, Vicky Kalogera +12

We investigate Roche lobe overflow mass transfer (MT) in eccentric binary systems between stars and compact objects (COs), modeling the coupled evolution of both the star and the o…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Formation of Black Holes in Non-interacting, Isolated Binaries. Gaia Black Holes as Calibrators of Stellar Winds From Massive Stars

Matthias U. Kruckow, Jeff J. Andrews, Tassos Fragos +10

Context. The black holes discovered using Gaia, especially Gaia BH1 and BH2, have low mass companions of solar-like metallicity in wide orbits. For standard isolated binary evoluti…

astro-ph.SR2024

Irregularly Sampled Time Series Interpolation for Detailed Binary Evolution Simulations

Philipp M. Srivastava, Ugur Demir, Aggelos Katsaggelos +14

Modeling of large populations of binary stellar systems is an intergral part of a many areas of astrophysics, from radio pulsars and supernovae to X-ray binaries, gamma-ray bursts,…