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Eclipses of continuous gravitational waves as a probe of stellar structure
Pablo Marchant, Katelyn Breivik, Christopher P. L. Berry +2
Although gravitational waves only interact weakly with matter, their propagation is affected by a gravitational potential. If a gravitational wave source is eclipsed by a star, mea…
Weighing in on black hole binaries with BPASS: LB-1 does not contain a 70M black hole
J. J. Eldridge, E. R. Stanway, K. Breivik +3
The recent identification of a candidate very massive 70 M(Sun) black hole is at odds with our current understanding of stellar winds and pair-instability supernovae. We investigat…
Constraining Galactic Structure with the LISA White Dwarf Foreground
Katelyn Breivik, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Shane L. Larson
White dwarfs comprise 95% of all stellar remnants, and are thus an excellent tracer of old stellar populations in the Milky Way. Current and planned telescopes are not able to dire…
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…
LISA and the Existence of a Fast-Merging Double Neutron Star Formation Channel
Jeff J. Andrews, Katelyn Breivik, Chris Pankow +2
Using a Milky Way double neutron star (DNS) merger rate of 210 Myr, as derived by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), we demonstrate that the Las…
Weighing the Darkness: Astrometric Mass Measurement of Hidden Stellar Companions using Gaia
Jeff J. Andrews, Katelyn Breivik, Sourav Chatterjee
In astrometric binaries, the presence of a dark, unseen star can be inferred from the gravitational pull it induces on its luminous binary companion. While the orbit of such binari…