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most citedThe impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of field binary black hole populations

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astro-ph.SR2026

Disk-Regulated Mass Transfer Between Rotating Non-Degenerate Stars: Insights from Be and sdOB Binaries

Zepei Xing, Tassos Fragos, Vicky Kalogera +3

Mass transfer between non-degenerate stars is a fundamental but still poorly understood process in binary evolution. The commonly used rotationally limited accretion prescription i…

astro-ph.SR2025

Tides in Massive Binaries: Numerical Solutions and Semi-Analytical Comparisons

Meng Sun, Hongbo Xia, Seth Gossage +5

We present a systematic comparison between the tidal secular evolution timescales predicted by the direct numerical method and those given by the commonly used semi-analytic prescr…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Modelling the Future of Gaia Neutron Star-Main Sequence Binaries: From Eccentric Orbits to Millisecond Pulsar-White Dwarfs

Debatri Chattopadhyay, Kyle A. Rocha, Seth Gossage +3

We model the evolution of 21 Gaia neutron star (NS)-main-sequence binaries (orbital period -- days, eccentricity ) using binary evolutio…

astro-ph.SR2025

Evolutionary Links: From Gaia Neutron Star Binaries to Pulsar White Dwarf Endpoints

Debatri Chattopadhyay, Kyle A. Rocha, Seth Gossage +1

The discovery of wide, eccentric Gaia neutron stars (NSs) in binaries with still evolving (likely main sequence) companions offers a new probe of mass transfer and pulsar recycling…

astro-ph.SR2025

Forming Double Neutron Stars using Detailed Binary Evolution Models with POSYDON: Comparison to the Galactic Systems

Abhishek Chattaraj, Jeff J. Andrews, Simone S. Bavera +14

With over two dozen detections in the Milky Way, double neutron stars (DNSs) provide a unique window into massive binary evolution. We use the POSYDON binary population synthesis c…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

A Be star-black hole binary with a wide orbit from LAMOST time-domain survey

Qian-Yu An, Yang Huang, Wei-Min Gu +21

Binary systems consisting of an early type star and a black hole (BH) are crucial for understanding various astrophysical phenomena, particularly the origins of detected gravitatio…

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

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,…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Triple Evolution Pathways to Black Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binaries: Insights from V404 Cygni

Cheyanne Shariat, Smadar Naoz, Kareem El-Badry +5

A recent discovery shows that V404 Cygni, a prototypical black hole low-mass X-ray binary (BH-LMXB) is a hierarchical triple: the BH and donor star are orbited by a M$_{\odot…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 15 cited

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★ 3 cited

Emulators for stellar profiles in binary population modeling

Elizabeth Teng, Ugur Demir, Zoheyr Doctor +14

Knowledge about the internal physical structure of stars is crucial to understanding their evolution. The novel binary population synthesis code POSYDON includes a module for inter…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

Active Learning for Computationally Efficient Distribution of Binary Evolution Simulations

Kyle Akira Rocha, Jeff J. Andrews, Christopher P. L. Berry +13

Binary stars undergo a variety of interactions and evolutionary phases, critical for predicting and explaining observed properties. Binary population synthesis with full stellar-st…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 151 cited

POSYDON: A General-Purpose Population Synthesis Code with Detailed Binary-Evolution Simulations

Tassos Fragos, Jeff J. Andrews, Simone S. Bavera +22

Most massive stars are members of a binary or a higher-order stellar systems, where the presence of a binary companion can decisively alter their evolution via binary interactions.…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 21 cited

Residual Carbon in Oxygen-Neon White Dwarfs and its Implications for Accretion-Induced Collapse

Josiah Schwab, Kyle Akira Rocha

We explore the effects of the residual present in oxygen-neon white dwarfs (ONe WDs) on their evolution towards accretion-induced collapse (AIC). We produce a set…