5 papers
Modern tidal interaction models for rapid binary population synthesis: II. Binary black hole formation, mergers, and spins
Veome Kapil, Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley +3
We present predictions for the merger rates and effective spin () distribution of binary black holes (BBHs) from isolated binary evolution, using a new self-consisten…
Modern tidal interaction models for rapid binary population synthesis: I. Methods
Veome Kapil, Ilya Mandel, Evgeni Grishin +3
In this work, we present an updated prescription of contemporary tidal dissipation theory adapted for rapid binary population synthesis. Our simplified expressions encode the depen…
Implications of modern mass-loss rates for massive stars
JD Merritt, Simon Stevenson, Andreas Sander +7
Massive stars lose a significant fraction of their mass through stellar winds at various stages of their lives, including on the main sequence, during the red supergiant phase, and…
Electromagnetic, gravitational wave, and static gravitational transmission through throat spacetimes: a constraint-wave asymmetry
Jeff Riley
We compute the transmission properties of electromagnetic (EM), gravitational wave (GW), and static gravitational perturbations through geometric throats in spherically symmetric s…
Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II
Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley, Adam Boesky +13
The COMPAS public rapid binary population synthesis code has undergone a number of key improvements since the original COMPAS methods paper (Team COMPAS: Riley et al., 2022) was pu…