Publications

The Impact of Binary Stars on the Dust and Metal Evolution of Galaxies
We present detailed implementations of (a) binary stellar evolution (using binary_c) and (b) dust production and destruction into the …
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Detailed Equilibrium and Dynamical Tides: Impact on Circularization and Synchronization in Open Clusters
Binary stars evolve into chemically peculiar objects and are a major driver of the galactic enrichment of heavy elements. During their …
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Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae in Gravitational-Wave and Electromagnetic Transients
Current observations of binary black-hole (BBH) merger events show support for a feature in the primary BH-mass distribution at …
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Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae in Gravitational-Wave and Electromagnetic Transients
Mass-Stream Trajectories with Non-Synchronously Rotating Donors
Mass-transfer interactions in binary stars can lead to accretion disk formation, mass loss from the system and spin-up of the accretor. …
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Binary_c-Python: A Python-based Stellar Population Synthesis Tool and Interface to Binary_c
Hendriks et al., (2023). binary_c-python: A Python-based stellar population synthesis tool and interface to binary_c. Journal of Open …
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Population III X-ray Binaries and Their Impact on the Early Universe
The first population of X-ray binaries (XRBs) is expected to affect the thermal and ionization states of the gas in the early Universe. …
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Pair-Instability Mass Loss for Top-down Compact Object Mass Calculations
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Polluting the Pair-instability Mass Gap for Binary Black Holes through Super-Eddington Accretion in Isolated Binaries
The theory for single stellar evolution predicts a gap in the mass distribution of black holes (BHs) between approximately 45 and 130 …
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