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astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.SR2026

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…

astro-ph.SR2026

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.…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

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…