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COMPAS rapid binary population synthesis code
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Implement mergers #209

Open SimonStevenson opened 4 years ago

SimonStevenson commented 4 years ago

It would be nice to be able to continue the evolution of merger products using COMPAS. This would be useful for studying populations of e.g. supernovae and pulsars, which may originate from merger products.

I suggest as a starting point we implement the algorithm for determining the properties of (stellar) merger products from BSE (Section 2.7 in Hurley et al. 2002, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002MNRAS.329..897H/abstract).

We could/should make it an option for the user to decide whether they are interested in evolving merger products or not (so could recover current behaviour by setting an appropriate option to false). This would be useful when the user is only interested in forming double compact objects, for example.

ilyamandel commented 1 year ago

@SimonStevenson , is this still on your list?