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most citedClose Encounters of Wide Binaries Induced by the Galactic Tide: Implications for Stellar Mergers and Gravitational-Wave Sources

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cogsworth: A Gala of COSMIC proportions combining binary stellar evolution and galactic dynamics

Tom Wagg, Katelyn Breivik, Mathieu Renzo +1

We present cogsworth, an open-source Python tool for producing self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations. With cogsworth one can (1) sample a populatio…

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Close Encounters of Wide Binaries Induced by the Galactic Tide: Implications for Stellar Mergers and Gravitational-Wave Sources

Jakob Stegmann, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Antti Rantala +6

A substantial fraction of stars can be found in wide binaries with projected separations between and . In the standard lore of binary physics, these would…