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View article: Binary imposters: Mergers in massive hierarchical triple stars
Binary imposters: Mergers in massive hierarchical triple stars Open
Context. Massive stars are often born in triples, where gravitational dynamics and stellar interactions play a crucial role in shaping their evolution. One such pathway includes the merger of the inner binary, transforming the system into …
View article: Binary imposters: Mergers in massive hierarchical triple stars
Binary imposters: Mergers in massive hierarchical triple stars Open
Massive stars are often born in triples, where gravitational dynamics and stellar interactions play a crucial role in shaping their evolution. One such pathway includes the merger of the inner binary, transforming the system to a binary wi…
View article: Detailed simulations of massive hierarchical triple star systems
Detailed simulations of massive hierarchical triple star systems Open
Context. Recent observations estimate that approximately 30% of early B- and O-type stars are found in triple systems. To date, the evolution of triple star systems has mainly been modeled using fast stellar codes. The accuracy of these co…
View article: Massive stellar triples on the edge
Massive stellar triples on the edge Open
Context. Massive stars reside predominantly in triples or higher-order multiples. Their lives can be significantly affected by three-body interactions, making it an important area of study in the context of massive-star evolution. Aims. We…
View article: Black hole-black hole mergers with and without an electromagnetic counterpart
Black hole-black hole mergers with and without an electromagnetic counterpart Open
Context. Triple stars are prevalent within the population of observed stars. Their evolution compared to binary systems is notably more complex and is influenced by unique dynamical, tidal, and mass transfer processes inherent in higher or…
View article: BH-BH mergers with & without EM counterpart: A model for stable tertiary mass transfer in hierarchical triple systems
BH-BH mergers with & without EM counterpart: A model for stable tertiary mass transfer in hierarchical triple systems Open
Triple stars are prevalent within the population of observed stars. Their evolution, compared to binaries, is notably more complex, influenced by unique dynamical, tidal, and mass transfer processes. Understanding these phenomena is essent…
View article: Massive stellar triples on the edge: A numerical study of the evolution and final outcomes of destabilized massive triples
Massive stellar triples on the edge: A numerical study of the evolution and final outcomes of destabilized massive triples Open
Massive stars reside predominantly in triples or higher-order multiples. Their lives can be significantly affected by three-body interactions, making it an important area of study in the context of massive star evolution. In this study we …
View article: Stellar triples with chemically homogeneously evolving inner binaries
Stellar triples with chemically homogeneously evolving inner binaries Open
Observations suggest that massive stellar triples are common. However, their evolution is not yet fully understood. We investigate the evolution of hierarchical triples in which the stars of the inner binary experience chemically homogeneo…
View article: The main evolutionary pathways of massive hierarchical triple stars
The main evolutionary pathways of massive hierarchical triple stars Open
Context. So far, stellar population studies have mainly focused on the evolution of single and binary stars. Recent observations show that triple and higher order multiple star systems are ubiquitous in the local population, especially amo…
View article: Dataset: The Main Evolutionary Pathways of Massive Hierarchical Triple Stars
Dataset: The Main Evolutionary Pathways of Massive Hierarchical Triple Stars Open
This is a reproduction package for the paper "The Main Evolutionary Pathways of Massive Hierarchical Triple Stars" by Kummer et al. (2023). It aims to provide the most important data products and reproduce the Figures of the paper.
View article: Dataset: The Main Evolutionary Pathways of Massive Hierarchical Triple Stars
Dataset: The Main Evolutionary Pathways of Massive Hierarchical Triple Stars Open
This is a reproduction package for the paper "The Main Evolutionary Pathways of Massive Hierarchical Triple Stars" by Kummer et al. (2023). It aims to provide the most important data products and reproduce the Figures of the paper. The fol…
View article: Stellar triples with chemically homogeneously evolving inner binaries
Stellar triples with chemically homogeneously evolving inner binaries Open
Observations suggest that massive stellar triples are common. However, their evolution is not yet fully understood. We investigate the evolution of hierarchical triples in which the stars of the inner binary experience chemically homogeneo…
View article: The Main Evolutionary Pathways of Massive Hierarchical Triple Stars
The Main Evolutionary Pathways of Massive Hierarchical Triple Stars Open
So far, stellar population studies have mainly focused on the evolution of single and binary stars. Recent observations show that triple and higher order multiple star systems are common, especially among massive stars. Introducing three-b…
View article: The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter
The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter Open
Gravitational-wave detectors are starting to reveal the redshift evolution of the binary black hole (BBH) merger rate, R BBH ( z ). We make predictions for R BBH ( z ) as a function of black hole mass for systems originating from isolated …
View article: Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS
Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS Open
Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (COMPAS; https://compas.science ) is a public rapid binary population synthesis code. COMPAS generates populations of isolated stellar binaries under a set of parameterized ass…
View article: COMPAS: A rapid binary population synthesis suite
COMPAS: A rapid binary population synthesis suite Open
Most massive stars—those with initial masses greater than 8 M⊙—are born with another massive star as a companion (Moe & Di Stefano, 2017; Sana et al., 2012). Massive binary stars are responsible for producing many exotic astrophysical phen…
View article: Dataset from: Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS
Dataset from: Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS Open
This data set is used to produce Figure 16 of the COMPAS Paper (Team COMPAS et al. 2021). The file contains the output of 10,000,000 binaries evolved using COMPAS v02.21.00, using adaptive importance sampling (STROOPWAFEL) , sampling from …
View article: Dataset from: Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS
Dataset from: Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS Open
This data set is used to produce Figure 16 of the COMPAS Paper (Team COMPAS et al. 2021). The file contains the output of 10,000,000 binaries evolved using COMPAS v02.21.00, using adaptive importance sampling (STROOPWAFEL) , sampling from …
View article: Dataset from: The redshift evolution of the binary black hole merger rate: a weighty matter
Dataset from: The redshift evolution of the binary black hole merger rate: a weighty matter Open
These are the datasets used in: "The redshift evolution of the binary black hole merger rate: a weighty matter" Authors: L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, T. Callister, S. Justham, M. Renzo, T. Wagg, F. S. Broekgaarden, F. Kummer, R. Pakmor…
View article: Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS
Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS Open
Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (COMPAS; https://compas.science) is a public rapid binary population synthesis code. COMPAS generates populations of isolated stellar binaries under a set of parametrized assum…