Chemically homogeneous evolution: a rapid population synthesis approach

@article{Riley2020ChemicallyHE,
  title={Chemically homogeneous evolution: a rapid population synthesis approach},
  author={Jeff Riley and Ilya Mandel and Pablo Marchant and Ellen Butler and K. Nathaniel and Coenraad J. Neijssel and Spencer Shortt and Alejandro Vigna-G{\'o}mez},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2020},
  volume={505},
  pages={663-676}
}
We explore chemically homogeneous evolution (CHE) as a formation channel for massive merging binary black holes (BBHs). We develop methods to include CHE in a rapid binary population synthesis code, Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (compas), which combines realistic models of binary evolution with cosmological models of the star formation history of the Universe. For the first time, we simultaneously explore conventional isolated binary star evolution under the… 
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