3 papers
astro-ph.HE2025
The impact of natal kicks on black hole binaries
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez
In massive binary-star systems, supernova explosions can significantly alter the orbit during the formation of compact objects. Some compact objects are predicted to form via direc…
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…
astro-ph.SR2025
Prompt stellar and binary black hole mergers in tight triples: Insights from chemically homogeneous evolution
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Evgeni Grishin, Jakob Stegmann +7
Short-period massive binary stars are predicted to undergo chemically homogeneous evolution (CHE), making them prime candidates for producing binary black holes (BBHs) that may mer…