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Best practices in software citation
Phil R. Van-Lane, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Daniel S. Katz +11
Software is both a foundational tool and a primary output of modern computational research, yet citation practices for software remain inconsistent, incomplete, and rarely machine-…
A Practical Primer on Software Citation in Research
Floor S. Broekgaarden, Phil R. Van-Lane, Sasha Levina +9
Software underlies virtually all modern research, yet citation practices for software remain inconsistent and often inadequate. This short primer offers practical guidance in two d…
The Stellar Winds Atlas II: Black Hole Formation at Solar Metallicity
Amedeo Romagnolo, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Alex C. Gormaz-Matamala +7
Stellar winds are a primary source of uncertainty in predicting the masses of black holes (BHs) from massive stars. At solar metallicity, theoretical models lead to widely divergen…
A Framework for Linking Pre- and Post-Common Envelope Binary Properties with Star Clusters: The First Demonstration with a Massive White Dwarf+M Dwarf Binary in Alessi 12
Steffani M. Grondin, Maria R. Drout, Jason Nordhaus +12
Common envelope (CE) evolution is a critical phase in the lives of binary stars, producing close binaries that are progenitors of type Ia supernovae and gravitational wave sources.…
How Common Are Common Envelopes? Quantifying Their Role in Forming Gravitational-Wave Sources
Floor S. Broekgaarden, Ana Lam, Sasha Levina +14
A central goal of gravitational-wave astronomy is to use merging binary black hole (BBH), black hole-neutron star (BHNS), and binary neutron star (BNS) systems as fossils to recons…
Lower Your Rates: On Claims of a Binary Black Hole Merger-Rate Crisis
Floor S. Broekgaarden
Recent studies have argued that isolated binary evolution simulations generically overestimate the observed local binary black hole (BBH) merger rate, even after adopting observati…
Massquerade: Impacts of Mass Ratio Reversals on Binary Black Hole Merger Rates and Mass Distributions
Tyler B. Smith, Floor Broekgaarden, Sasha Levina +4
We investigate the role of mass ratio reversal (MRR), in which the initially less massive star in a binary forms the more massive compact object, in shaping the astrophysical binar…
From cosmological simulations to binary black hole mergers: The impact of using analytical star formation history models on gravitational-wave source populations
Sasha Levina, Floor Broekgaarden, Lieke van Son +4
Observations of binary black hole (BBH) mergers provide a unique window into the lives of massive stars across cosmic time. Connecting redshift-dependent merger properties to massi…
The Stellar Winds Atlas I: Current uncertainties in mass-loss rates
Amedeo Romagnolo, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Konstantinos Antoniadis +1
Stellar winds are a major source of uncertainty in understanding the life and deaths of massive stars. Across studies in the field, prescriptions for stellar winds differ substanti…
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…
Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era
Eric Burns, Christopher L. Fryer, Ivan Agullo +82
Astrophysical observations of the cosmos allow us to probe extreme physics and answer foundational questions on our universe. Modern astronomy is increasingly operating under a hol…
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…
Multi-messenger observations in the Einstein Telescope era: binary neutron star and black hole - neutron star mergers
Alberto Colombo, Om Sharan Salafia, Giancarlo Ghirlanda +6
The Einstein Telescope (ET), a proposed next-generation gravitational wave (GW) observatory, will expand the reach of GW astronomy of stellar-mass compact object binaries to unprec…
Not just winds: why models find binary black hole formation is metallicity dependent, while binary neutron star formation is not
L. A. C. van Son, S. K. Roy, I. Mandel +6
Both detailed and rapid population studies alike predict that binary black hole (BHBH) formation is orders of magnitude more efficient at low metallicity than high metallicity, whi…
Streamlining and standardizing software citations with The Software Citation Station
Tom Wagg, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Phil R. Van-Lane
Software is crucial for the advancement of science, especially in the context of rapidly growing datasets that increasingly require algorithm and pipeline development to process da…
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…
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…
Beyond the far side: Observing black hole mergers beyond the pair-instability mass gap with next-generation gravitational wave detectors
Gabriele Franciolini, Konstantinos Kritos, Luca Reali +2
Stellar evolution predicts the existence of a mass gap for black hole remnants produced by pair-instability supernova dynamics, whose lower and upper edges are very uncertain. We s…
Stellar Black Holes and Compact Stellar Remnants
Guglielmo Costa, Martyna Chruślińska, Jakub Klencki +4
The recent observations of gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration (LVK) have provided a new opportunity for studying our Universe. By detecting several mer…
Multi-messenger prospects for black hole - neutron star mergers in the O4 and O5 runs
Alberto Colombo, Raphaël Duqué, Om Sharan Salafia +13
The existence of merging black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries has been ascertained through the observation of their gravitational wave (GW) signals. However, to date, no definit…
Gamma-ray Transient Network Science Analysis Group Report
Eric Burns, Michael Coughlin, Kendall Ackley +34
The Interplanetary Network (IPN) is a detection, localization and alert system that utilizes the arrival time of transient signals in gamma-ray detectors on spacecraft separated by…
Characterizing Gravitational Wave Detector Networks: From A to Cosmic Explorer
Ish Gupta, Chaitanya Afle, K. G. Arun +44
Gravitational-wave observations by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo have provided us a new tool to explore the Universe on all scales from n…
Roman CCS White Paper: Characterizing Superluminous Supernovae with Roman
Sebastian Gomez, Kate Alexander, Edo Berger +16
Type-I Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe) are an exotic class of core-collapse SN (CCSN) that can be up to 100 times brighter and more slowly-evolving than normal CCSNe. SLSNe repres…
Roman CCS White Paper: Characterizing the Galactic population of isolated black holes
Casey Y. Lam, Natasha Abrams, Jeff Andrews +34
Although there are estimated to be 100 million isolated black holes (BHs) in the Milky Way, only one has been found so far, resulting in significant uncertainty about their propert…