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most citedCOSMIC Variance in Binary Population Synthesis

300 citations · 1.2k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.IM2022

Discriminative Dimensionality Reduction using Deep Neural Networks for Clustering of LIGO Data

Sara Bahaadini, Yunan Wu, Scott Coughlin +2

In this paper, leveraging the capabilities of neural networks for modeling the non-linearities that exist in the data, we propose several models that can project data into a low di…

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.HE2021★ 41 cited

Probing the progenitors of spinning binary black-hole mergers with long gamma-ray bursts

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Emmanouil Zapartas +15

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be associated with the core-collapse of massive, rapidly spinning stars and the formation of black holes. However, efficient angular m…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 42 cited

Revisiting the explodability of single massive star progenitors of stripped-envelope supernovae

E. Zapartas, M. Renzo, T. Fragos +12

Stripped-envelope supernovae (Types IIb, Ib, and Ic) that show little or no hydrogen comprise roughly one-third of the observed explosions of massive stars. Their origin and the ev…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 113 cited

Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond with the Cluster Monte Carlo Code

Carl L. Rodriguez, Newlin C. Weatherford, Scott C. Coughlin +10

We describe the public release of the Cluster Monte Carlo Code (CMC) a parallel, star-by-star -body code for modeling dense star clusters. CMC treats collisional stellar dynamic…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 35 cited

The role of core-collapse physics in the observability of black-hole neutron-star mergers as multi-messenger sources

Jaime Román-Garza, Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos +10

Recent detailed 1D core-collapse simulations have brought new insights on the final fate of massive stars, which are in contrast to commonly used parametric prescriptions. In this…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 156 cited

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

Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Michael Zevin +13

We study the impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of binary black hole populations formed through isolated binary evolution. We investigate the impact of ma…

cs.LG2019

Scalable Variational Gaussian Processes for Crowdsourcing: Glitch Detection in LIGO

Pablo Morales-Álvarez, Pablo Ruiz, Scott Coughlin +2

In the last years, crowdsourcing is transforming the way classification training sets are obtained. Instead of relying on a single expert annotator, crowdsourcing shares the labell…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 300 cited

COSMIC Variance in Binary Population Synthesis

Katelyn Breivik, Scott Coughlin, Michael Zevin +8

The formation and evolution of binary stars is a critical component of several fields in astronomy. The most numerous sources for gravitational wave observatories are inspiraling a…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 54 cited

Can Neutron-Star Mergers Explain the r-process Enrichment in Globular Clusters?

Michael Zevin, Kyle Kremer, Daniel M. Siegel +4

Star-to-star dispersion of r-process elements has been observed in a significant number of old, metal-poor globular clusters. We investigate early-time neutron-star mergers as the…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 94 cited

The Fate of Binaries in the Galactic Center: The Mundane and the Exotic

Alexander P. Stephan, Smadar Naoz, Andrea M. Ghez +6

The Galactic Center (GC) is dominated by the gravity of a super-massive black hole (SMBH), Sagittarius A, and is suspected to contain a sizable population of binary stars. Such…

cs.LG2018

DIRECT: Deep Discriminative Embedding for Clustering of LIGO Data

Sara Bahaadini, Vahid Noroozi, Neda Rohani +3

In this paper, benefiting from the strong ability of deep neural network in estimating non-linear functions, we propose a discriminative embedding function to be used as a feature…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 20 cited

Improvements in Gravitational-Wave Sky Localization with Expanded Networks of Interferometers

Chris Pankow, Eve A. Chase, Scott Coughlin +2

A milestone of multi-messenger astronomy has been achieved with the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger accompanied by observations of several associ…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 62 cited

Characterizing accreting double white dwarf binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and Gaia

Katelyn Breivik, Kyle Kremer, Michael Bueno +3

We demonstrate a method to fully characterize mass-transferring double white dwarf (DWD) systems with a helium-rich (He) WD donor based on the mass--radius relationship for He WDs.…

cs.LG2017★ 2 cited

Deep Multi-view Models for Glitch Classification

Sara Bahaadini, Neda Rohani, Scott Coughlin +3

Non-cosmic, non-Gaussian disturbances known as "glitches", show up in gravitational-wave data of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or aLIGO. In this…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 21 cited

Astrophysical Prior Information and Gravitational-wave Parameter Estimation

Chris Pankow, Laura Sampson, Leah Perri +4

The detection of electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves has great promise for the investigation of many scientific questions. It has long been hoped that in addition t…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 2 cited

Systematic errors in low latency gravitational wave parameter estimation impact electromagnetic follow-up observations

Tyson B. Littenberg, Ben Farr, Scott Coughlin +1

Among the most eagerly anticipated opportunities made possible by Advanced LIGO/Virgo are multimessenger observations of compact mergers. Optical counterparts may be short-lived so…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 60 cited

Neutron stars versus black holes: probing the mass gap with LIGO/Virgo

Tyson B. Littenberg, Benjamin Farr, Scott Coughlin +2

Inspirals and mergers of black hole (BHs) and/or neutron star (NSs) binaries are expected to be abundant sources for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. We assess the c…