7 papers
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…
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…
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…
Photon-Count Statistics of Crab X-ray Pulses: Skellam Behavior and Excess Variance in the Main Pulse
Max Worchel, Margaret M. Ferris, Sasha Levina +15
The Crab pulsar (PSR B0531+21) provides an unusually rich test bed for statistical studies of high-energy photon-counting data, owing to its extreme brightness and the contrasting…
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…
PINT: Maximum-likelihood estimation of pulsar timing noise parameters
Abhimanyu Susobhanan, David Kaplan, Anne Archibald +21
PINT is a pure-Python framework for high-precision pulsar timing developed on top of widely used and well-tested Python libraries, supporting both interactive and programmatic data…
Wind Roche-lobe Overflow in Low-Mass Binaries: Exploring the Origin of Rapidly Rotating Blue Lurkers
Meng Sun, Sasha Levina, Seth Gossage +4
Wind Roche-Lobe Overflow (WRLOF) is a mass-transfer mechanism proposed by Mohamed and Podsiadlowski (2007) for stellar binaries wherein the wind acceleration zone of the donor star…