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Formation of heavy double neutron stars II: the role of heavy first-born neutron stars and low metallicity
Ashwathi Nair, Simon Stevenson
The high total mass of GW190425 challenges our understanding of double neutron star (DNS) formation, as no such heavy (\, M) DNS system has been observed in the Milk…
astro-ph.SR2026
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…
astro-ph.SR2025
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…